Five years ago, 2021<\/p>\n
\u2022 Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Animal Control rescued 257 dogs, pigs, chickens, goats and rabbits from \u201cdeplorable conditions\u201d at a house on Old Jennings Road in Orange Park.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Cathie Parrott is honored with the Florida Department of Transportation\u2019s Garry Balogh Award at Penney Farms.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Five Fleming Island High students \u2013 Libby Pittman, Ila Gapinski, William MacMillan, Gabrielle Carson and Jenna McHardy \u2013 are selected as National Merit semifinalists.<\/p>\n
10 years ago, 2016<\/p>\n
\u2022 The dispute between the Orange Park Medical Center and UF Health in Jacksonville continued as OPMC again requests to open a trauma center.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Former Orange Park High quarterback Jacob Mezera is selected as the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Conference\u2019s Offensive Player of the Year after leading Fort Hays State to a win against Pittsburg State with 446 passing yards.<\/p>\n
\u2022 County residents are left with downed trees and power lines after Hurricane Matthew skirts the Florida East Coast.<\/p>\n
20 years ago, 2006<\/p>\n
\u2022 Despite unanimous opposition from the public, the BCC voted 4-1 to approve the universal trash collection of solid waste at a cost of $110 a year for each household.<\/p>\n
\u2022 A Victim\u2019s Service Center for survivors of sexual abuse opened in Green Cove Springs.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The county commission took exception to the Florida Department of Transportation\u2019s proposal to remove a portion of the Shands Bridge.<\/p>\n
30 years ago, 1996<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested Carl Amos Gibbons of Orange Park for two counts of attempted murder for allegedly trying to kill his parents, Denver and Lisa Gibbons.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Clay Coounty\u2019s Black Creek rose above flooding level during Tropical Storm Josephine. The rain flooded cars on Wisteria Lane in Middleburg.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Six years after stopping the Cross Florida Barge Canal Project, Clay County received $11 million in ad valorem taxes after the County paid into the project since its inception in 1930.<\/p>\n
40 years ago, 1986<\/p>\n
\u2022 Car dealers along the \u201cLittle Detroit\u201d corridor in Green Cove Springs experienced a rash of at least five new and used cars.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Green Cove Springs City Council rejected a request from Clay Memorial Hospital to create a mobile health unit on its grounds because it would violate the city\u2019s mobile home ordinances.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Orange Park Town Council contracted with Kohler Engineering Group to oversee water, sewer, drainage and road repairs on Miller Street near 14 homes considered sub-standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five years ago, 2021 \u2022 Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Animal Control rescued 257 dogs, pigs, chickens, goats…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428940,"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-428939","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\/428939","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=428939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}