Five years ago, 2021<\/p>\n
\u2022 Orange Park High graduate and athlete Tayler Harber shared her story of turning from a top student to a felon following a home-invasion robbery to more than 1 million followers on TikTok.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Keystone Heights High\u2019s Sage Pridemore returned home seven weeks after receiving a life-saving heart transplant at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n
\u2022 U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack, who represents the county in Washington, secured a $2.7 million grant for Clay County Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n
10 years ago, 2016<\/p>\n
\u2022 The College of Missionary Aviation opened to teach young pilots at Keystone Heights Airport.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Orange Park Town Council decided not to use money generated by red-light cameras to pay for an additional police officer.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Clay County School Board passed a $379.6 million budget that included a $31.2 million increase in funds while reducing the millage rate to .375.<\/p>\n
20 years ago, 2006<\/p>\n
\u2022 Board of County Commissioner Harold Rutledge held town hall meetings in Orange Park, Fleming Island, Middleburg and Keystone Heights in a single day.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Florida Department of Transportation held a public hearing to discuss the final details of a long-awaited plan to widen Doctors Lake Bridge to six lanes.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Orange Park Town Council approved a 4% pay raise to its public works and non-union employees, with giving 3% raises to members of the police and fire departments.<\/p>\n
\u00a030 years ago, 1996<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Clay County Strategic Planning Environmental and Safety Action Team recommended the school board place security guards at 15 of its 18 elementary schools.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Keystone Heights City Council member Bill Beam asked that $171,000 set aside for road and drainage improvements be placed back in the draft budget after the city decided to use Community Development Block Grant funds for the roadwork projects.<\/p>\n
\u2022 After returning from competing in the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, Orange Park\u2019s LeAnn Shannon presented the City of Jacksonville a key to the city by Genesis Rehabilitation Services.<\/p>\n
40 years ago, 1986<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Clay County Chamber of Commerce and the county\u2019s libraries prepared for a 25th anniversary party that included a Spring Park performance by the St. Johns River City Band.<\/p>\n
\u2022 County Commissioner Larry Lancaster asked county administrator John Bowles to seek Florida Department of Transportation assistance to construct a turn lane from northbound Blanding Boulevard eastbound onto Kingsley Avenue.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The BCC voted 4-1 to end the practice of sending unwanted cats and dogs from Animal Control to be used in research at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five years ago, 2021 \u2022 Orange Park High graduate and athlete Tayler Harber shared her story of turning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403299,"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-403298","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\/403298","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=403298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}