\u2022\u00a0Calling it a \u201c$206.5 million\u00a0investment\u00a0in Clay County,\u201d\u00a0Baptist Medical Center Clay CEO Darin Roark announces the groundbreaking for a new 100-bed hospital on Fleming\u00a0Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Marie Kaltz\u00a0donates\u00a0her Winn-Dixie reward points to buy\u00a0$300 worth of\u00a0Thanksgiving dinners that will be\u00a0given\u00a0to 100 families\u00a0at Clay\u00a0Behavioral\u00a0Health Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0Beth Clark vows to bring \u201cprofessionalism\u201d to the\u00a0school\u00a0board after she was elected to\u00a0represent\u00a0District 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0More than 150 students from Lake Asbury Junior High\u00a0participate\u00a0in the 3K Turkey Trot to highlight physical fitness and long-term health.\u00a0The run marked the end of a food drive where students also collected 760 canned goods, small\u00a0trinkets\u00a0and toys.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Col. Matt Johnson is installed as the new Commander at Camp Blanding Joint\u00a0Training Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0The Clay High football team beats North Marion 65-58 in the Class 5A, Region 2\u00a0semifinal to move one game away from the Final Four. Bilal Ally rushed\u00a0for 496 yards and five touchdowns in the victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u2022 Melissa Hawkinson of Fleming Island pulls 5-year-old Cameron Dorsey from his father\u2019s sinking Volkswagen Jetta near the boat ramp on Lake Shore Drive. Police charged Darren Dorsey with attempted murder and aggravated child abuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Clay Board of County Commissioners vote 4-1, with Commissioner Christy Fitzgerald dissenting, on a report from county auditor Mike Price that laid out the causes for an illegal dumping scandal that rocked the government for at least three years. The 58-page report was turned over to the State Attorney\u2019s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Fleming Island Elementary Principal Linda Braxton and staff celebrate the school having been named a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Orange Park High student Barbara Mapes designs the Town of Orange\u00a0Park\u00a0its\u00a0first\u00a0flag.\u00a0It\u00a0was presented during a ceremony dedicating the town\u2019s new town hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Clay County Clerk of Court John Keane returns approximately $1.258 million\u00a0in\u00a0excess\u00a0fees to the county government\u2019s general fund.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 Calvin Burney, head of the Metropolitan Planning Organization, tells Clay Today that the transportation planning agency was reviewing the possibility of having a rail line \u201crun up the Branan Field\/Chafee Corridor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 G. Rodman Porter Jr., president of Clay County Bank, holds a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 6,100 branch in Keystone Heights along with builder E. Vaughan Rivers and R.J. Head Jr.,\u00a0chairman\u00a0of the bank\u2019s board.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Clay County School Board votes 3-2 to organize all schools north of Green Cove Springs by grade levels of kindergarten-sixth, seventh-ninth\u00a0and 10th-12th. Superintendent Ann Wiggins offered the proposal as an alternative to setting up a joint-use school on the campus of St. Johns River State College.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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