Five years ago, 2017
• “Recovering Clay” is created to raise money for victims in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
• Brig. Gen. Paul Chauncey III of the Florida National Guard tells an audience at Camp Blanding he hopes “peace breaks out soon” in the Middle East during the post’s Veterans Day ceremony.
• Florida Sen. Rob Bradley (R-Fleming Island) was selected to be the Senate Budget Chief.

10 years ago, 2012
• John Buskager is charged with felony murder by the Orange Park Police after Andrew Stickman is found strangled in the Roadway Inn on Park Avenue.
• Orange Park Town Council passes an agreement with the nonprofit Orange Park Patrons to manage and maintain the Orange Park State Park off Gano Avenue.
• The Clay County Development Authority pad $450,000 for a 30-year license to build a $21 million baseball and soccer complex from Big League Dreams.

20 years ago, 2002
• Chris Chase, 12, who had been missing for a day off of  Old Jennings Road, is hiding in a culvert near Long Bay Road.
• The Green Cove Springs City Council gets a preview of what to expect when the new city hall is completed.
• Alice Grisham, a teacher for gifted students at Wilkinson Elementary, came to school in a Colonial Period dress during a class on the American Revolution.

30 years ago, 1992
• Amanda Nicole Arnold, 1, of Middleburg wins the Little Miss Florida pageant.
• Orange Park celebrates the grand re-opening of the newly expanded public library.
• Judge William Wilkes denies Jacksonville-based Valuing Our Children And Laws organization’s request a Middleburg mother, Crystal Gail Jones be sterilized after one of her children drowned in Black Creek and a second child nearly drowned in a pond.

40 years ago, 1982
• The Clay County Crescent, now Clay Today, is designated by the Board of County Commissioners as the official publication for legal notices.
• The Board of County Commissioners agree to advertise for a secretary to help BCC members with their daily duties.
• The county joins residents who are protesting Florida Power and Light’s plan to run lines through a Middleburg subdivision.