Five years ago, 2021<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Human Collective organization rallies to help fix a leaky roof and decay conditions at Deborah Kelly-Gainers\u2019 home after the county\u2019s State Housing Initiative Program is shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Orange Park High\u2019s Sebastian Kouchakjy and Ridgeview\u2019s Serenity Derousie win first-place honors at the county and state science fairs and will now compete at the international fair.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Town of Orange Park receives $1.4 million in reimbursement in CARES Act funding.<\/p>\n
10 years ago, 2016<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office starts its \u201cCoffee with a Cop\u201d program by sitting with residents in Keystone Heights and discussing their concerns.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Bobbie and Joseph White of Middleburg are indicted for first-degree murder, armed robbery, armed robbery with assault, second-degree arson and possession of arson in the death of Corey Bryan Laine, 35, of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Julieann Crisp, who was born without significant portions of her spine, is given a special rehab bicycle from the Orange Park Rotary Club.<\/p>\n
20 years ago, 2006<\/p>\n
\u2022 U.S. Marshals converge at a home on Vanderford Road where they captured Joe Nathan Dufresne who was wanted in connection with a Michigan-based white supremacist group known as The Creativity Movement.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Flanked by Jacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford on one side and Clay County Superintendent David Owens on the other, Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler makes a public plea to parents to be aware that gangs could be recruiting local teenagers.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Officials with the Historical Society of Penney farms announce plans to erect a statue of the town\u2019s namesake and founder, James Cash Penney, to mark the town\u2019s 80th anniversary.<\/p>\n
30 years ago, 1996<\/p>\n
\u2022 Linda Kay Murphy and Michael Gary Christianson, a Clay County Jail corrections officer and a former corrections officer, respectively, are arrested and charged with unlawful compensation and official misconduct for alleged misconduct on the job.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigate the drowning death of Thomas Earl Bunn, 37, a Henley Road resident in Lake Asbury, whose body was found submerged in about 35 feet from the shore.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Clay County Sheriff Scott Lancaster threatens to sue the Green Cove Springs Board of Zoning Adjustment after the panel voted down a variance needed to expand the Clay County Jail.<\/p>\n
40 years ago, 1986<\/p>\n
\u2022 Clay County Commissioners lift a ban on transporting animals from Animal Control to the University of Florida where they would serve as research subjects and be subject to euthanasia.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrests brothers James Andrew Dye and Tommy Lee Dye for the October 1985 murder of Dewbra E. Dye, 38.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Clay County Agricultural Fair Association President Claude Kelly announces the board voted to move its first fair from a fall date to a spring start over weather concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five years ago, 2021 \u2022 The Human Collective organization rallies to help fix a leaky roof and decay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3496,3487,3495,3498,3488,3493,116,118,117,3492,3494,3499,3490,3489,3497,3491],"class_list":["post-178773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-argyle","tag-clay-county","tag-doctors-inlet","tag-eagle-harbor","tag-fleming-island","tag-green-cove-springs","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-keystone-heights","tag-lake-asbury","tag-margaret","tag-middleburg","tag-orange-park","tag-pace-island","tag-penney-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}