ORANGE PARK – Tropical Storm Fay left its mark on Clay County, knocking power to thousands of residents, sending flood waters dangerously close to Black Creek homes and sending trees toppling onto houses and a gas station canopy.

- • Fire kills former GCS Merchants Association president
- • School Board trims its five-year budget
- • Beseler wins primary election; Rutledge falls
- • Woman’s Club president ready to move club forward
- • BCC reaches compromise on Camp Blanding plan

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- • U.N. Finds Airstrike Killed 90 Afghans
ORANGE PARK - The St. Johns Country Day School track and cross country teams got a surprise over the summer, upon the return to school just weeks ago, the Spartans team now will be competing on a brand new blue track field.
One of the newscasters over the weekend commented that "Fay has passed out of Florida and into history." He was probably right but I wonder if he was aware of what history he was talking about. History is replete with femmes fatales and I suspect that Fickle Fay has joined their ranks.
Managing Editor Greg Walsh writes about a Clay County Sheriff's Office crime fighting initiative to keep residents informed about their neighborhoods and to educate them about ways to avoid becoming a victim.
LAKE ASBURY – A Lake Asbury teacher says she will use her experiences from a summertime archaeological dig in Israel to help with her English classes this year.
OAKLEAF – The lights dimmed, assembled guests took their seats and a screen slowly descended from the ceiling. Softly at first and then growing in volume, the strains of “Faith of the Heart,” the theme from Star Trek: Enterprise, filled the room.
FLEMING ISLAND – Can a woman from Lake Asbury’s Black Creek area find happiness with a man from Pearl River, N.Y? The answer is yes, if they are both passionate about wakeboarding, skateboarding and the like.
ORANGE PARK – Authorities are looking for an armed suspect who robbed the Planet Smoothie on Wells Road Wednesday, Aug. 28.
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RONALD M. GAYE
PEARL LOREE CRIST MOTES
ROGER SMITH
VICTOR M. CASCANTE
FRED CARROLL DAVIS
JAMES HARTLEY (JIM) DUNSFORD
WILLIAM A. BEAULIEU
JOHNA HAYES, JR.
ELIZABETH MCBRIDE NICHOLS
FRANK DAVIS, JR.














