Five years ago, 2021<\/p>\n
\u2022 Hundreds of residents, veterans, first responders and military personnel gathered at Moody Avenue Park for the honorary roadway designation ceremony for the late Mary Helen Hoff, the woman behind the country\u2019s famous POW-MIA flag.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Art Guild of Orange Park continued its work on its most-ambitious project by painting birds and trees on the town\u2019s water tank on the corner of Milwaukee Avenue and Smith Street.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Kids First of Florida gets resources from AT&T, Connected Nation, Dell Technologies, Intel and Sunshine Health for remote learning and critical services.<\/p>\n
10 years ago, 2016<\/p>\n
\u2022 The murder trial for Anthony Washington starts. Washington was charged with killing Navy Cmdr. Alphonso Doss in 2014 at the Astoria Motel in Orange Park.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Orange Park Town Council transferred $87,263 from its reserved funds to balance its new fiscal budget.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Clay County School Board approved St. Johns Classical Academy\u2019s charter, but it rejected the application from the Clay Classical Academy.<\/p>\n
20 years ago, 2006<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Monster Truck Show at the Clay County Fairgrounds included truck versions of \u201crodeo clown\u201d maneuvers.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Residents of Holly Point Road East flood the public hearing ahead of the start of construction of Doctors Lake Bridge to review the site plans and drawings of the project.<\/p>\n
\u2022 A 53-yard touchdown pass in the final minute propelled Ridgeview to a 22-20 victory against rival Middleburg.<\/p>\n
30 years ago, 1996<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Clay County Board of County Commissioners considered an ordinance governing where cellular communication towers and antennas could be built.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Sgt. 1st Class Lee L. Cogdill, 53, of Middleburg, died at Shands Hospital Gainesville after collapsing at Camp Blanding, where had just completed a physical fitness test and hour earlier during Florida National Guard training.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Linda Jones of Lake Asbury was charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder by the Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office following the beating death of her husband, Jack Jones. Three Orange Park men and a teen were arrested in the murder-for-hire scheme.<\/p>\n
\u00a040 years ago, 1986<\/p>\n
\u2022 Clay County Public Libraries, the Reach-to-Teach literacy group and the Clay County District Schools team up to form the Adult Literacy Initiative.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Christy Raulerson of Green Cove Springs had a photograph of a tiger at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. and was selected to tour with the National 4-H Club\u2019s Photo Exbibit.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Orange Park Town Council set the millage rate at 3.5 mills, despite objections from several town residents, including former council member David Brownell, who said the town lacks a significant reserve fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five years ago, 2021 \u2022 Hundreds of residents, veterans, first responders and military personnel gathered at Moody Avenue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410609,"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-410608","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\/410608","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=410608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}