Five years ago, 2021<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u00a0With so many call-outs and vacancies created by the COVID-19 pandemic, County Manager Howard Wanamaker rents a garbage truck from the City of Green Cove Springs and helps dump trash cans to ease the backlog at Waste Management.<\/p>\n
\u2022 With seven in 7 million patients reporting a reaction, the county puts the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on hold.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Orange Park Town Manager Sarah Campbell tells the Town Council Fire Chief Alvin Barker should quit after he made claims of the town\u2019s \u201cillegal\u201d bank account.<\/p>\n
10 years ago, 2016<\/p>\n
\u2022 Residents complete a makeover at Somer\u2019s Garden, a 1-year-old park built on the lot where the Grove Park Elementary girl, Somer Thompson, was murdered by Jared Harrell.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Federal authorities indict a Jacksonville man, Brian Lee Adams, with theft of government property and four counts of aggravated identity theft in connection with the death of his mother, who was found buried in Lake Asbury.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Orange Park pilot Kerry Bentley is recognized by Angel Flight Southeast as its Pilot of the Year for using his aircraft and fuel to assist the nonprofit organization.<\/p>\n
20 years ago, 2006<\/p>\n
\u2022 A Clay County Grand Jury indicts Cecil Matthews for first-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife, Natalie Matthews.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigate the shooting death of Teleio Lopez Morente, who was killed in front of the St. Johns Landing Apartments in Green Cove Springs while talking on the phone with his wife in Guatemala.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Attorneys for former Clay County Public Works Director Arthur Levy and suspended County Commissioner Christy Fitzgerald enter pleas of not guilty on charges of theft and official misconduct after being indicted by a grand jury.<\/p>\n
30 years ago, 1996<\/p>\n
\u2022 Keystone Heights High and teacher Susan Sailor, the Clay County Teacher of the Year, is selected as the Florida Teacher of the Year.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Joshua Parrish, 14, is treated at University Medical Center in Jacksonville after being accidentally shot in the chest with a .32-calibert revolver.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Navy Cmdr. William Gortney, a graduate of Orange Park High, takes command of Strike Fighter Squadron 106 at NAS Cecil Field.<\/p>\n
40 years ago, 1986<\/p>\n
\u2022 Green Cove Springs Fire Chief Red Wager says arson was believed to be the cause of a fire of more than 65 acres at Fellowship Park.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Accountant Dawn Berlin files papers to run for Orange Park Town Council\u2019s Seat 2, which became vacant with council member Frank Brownwell\u2019s resignation in the wake of a report he ordered town employees against the town charter.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Sandra Dunnavant defeats Thad Crossley in a runoff to become the second woman elected to the Green Cove Springs City Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five years ago, 2021 \u2022 \u00a0With so many call-outs and vacancies created by the COVID-19 pandemic, County Manager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243329,"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-243328","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\/243328","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=243328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}