{"id":439792,"date":"2025-12-11T09:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439792\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:38:16","slug":"this-week-in-history-clay-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439792\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History | Clay Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Five years ago, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Way Free Medical Clinic and Impact Clay have decided to proceed with their plan to create ClayPASS, an initiative to help residents navigate the confusing pathways of insurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Orange Park\u2019s Janet Goulet says she\u2019s not able to work, but that doesn&#8217;t stop her from crocheting 36 afghans, 50 hats and 50 pairs of booties for children at the HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital&#8217;s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Local artist Steven Teller uses spray paint to create a colorful mural on the entrance wall of the Food Court at the Orange Park Mall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10 years ago, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Green Cove Springs City Manager Danielle Judd provides the City Council with five proposals from companies seeking to manage the city\u2019s electric distribution system.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Board of County Commissioners wants Comcast to fix its problems after the county spent $200,000 to have meetings broadcast on channel 260, but most residents only see a green screen when they tune in.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Clay High football team loses, 34-24, to Wakulla in the Class 5A state semifinals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20 years ago, 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The First Coast Metropolitan Planning Organization presents its Unified Work Program for area transportation projects for July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006, which suggests officials consider establishing a commuter rail service connecting Clay County to Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Sheriffs from four Northeast Florida counties join Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler at Jacksonville Memory Gardens cemetery for a press conference to unveil law enforcement\u2019s unified plans to crack down on drunk and aggressive driving during the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigates the murder of 34-year-old Natalie Matthews, who was found dead in her Oakleaf Plantation home on Skipping Stone Way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30 Years Ago, 1995<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u2022 Committee of 100 Chairman Jack Myers suggests a moratorium on new building projects in Northwestern Clay County to ease traffic congestion on Blanding Boulevard. He says bad traffic is causing a drop in shopping in that area.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Clay County School Board schedules a Dec. 14 public hearing concerning new attendance boundaries needed to open Fleming Island Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 St. Johns River State College President Robert McClendon says the construction of a performing arts center for Clay County is \u201cdoable\u201d as the project gains support from both the Clay County School Board and the Board of County Commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>40 Years Ago, 1985<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrests Frank Elgin Matyasi Jr. of Terrell, Texas, who was wanted in Kaufman County, Texas, on charges of murder, prostitution and aggravated robbery.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Green Cove Springs city limits grew one-third larger as the city council votes to annex Magnolia Point into its boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Transportation consulting firm Harland, Bartholomew and Associates suggests establishing a 50-cent toll to help raise $51 million needed to four-lane Branan Field-Chaffee Road connecting Duval and Clay Counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five years ago, 2020 \u2022 Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Way Free Medical Clinic and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":411645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,15024,15015,15023,15026,3188,15016,723,15021,7310,15020,15022,7648,15018,15017,15025,15019,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-439792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-argyle","10":"tag-clay-county","11":"tag-doctors-inlet","12":"tag-eagle-harbor","13":"tag-fl","14":"tag-fleming-island","15":"tag-florida","16":"tag-green-cove-springs","17":"tag-jacksonville","18":"tag-keystone-heights","19":"tag-lake-asbury","20":"tag-margaret","21":"tag-middleburg","22":"tag-orange-park","23":"tag-pace-island","24":"tag-penney-farms","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115700269463293602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}