Clay County

I just picked up a flyer today at a store and I see the address is 3860 Doctors Lake.   I just wanted new to share that since I had not seen the location posted on the blogs.

I will now go back to lurking

A gun-wielding robber who threatened to shoot a Jacksonville store clerk and fired at police during a chase Monday has been charged with eight felonies and is being held in jail without bail.

The pursuit started after police were called to a Dollar General Store robbery about 9:30 a.m. on the 6300 block of 103rd Street. A woman who worked at the store said a man who identified himself as a secret shopper lured her to the back of the store and demanded to get in the office.

She told police the man pulled a gun from his waistband and threatened to shoot her. The woman said she tried to close the door and hit her head when she jumped down some stairs.

Where is the little blonde reporter from Folio now?????  If she is soooo interested in Clay County Politics.

Somebody's got some 'splaining to do...

From News4Jax.com...ironic how there is no mention of this on MCS

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. -- Clay County Clerk of Court James Jett is defending his use of a county-provided SUV to drive to his St. Augustine Beach condominium, to church on Sunday and to a political rally.

"It may not have been smart, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with it," Jett told Channel 4's Jim Piggott on Wednesday.

Shortly before noon on Friday came word that there is a bomb scare at the State's Attorney's Office in Green Cove Springs.

Apparently a package that was x-rayed showed electrical wiring and otherwise resembled a bomb closely enough that the bomb squad has been called and on the way.

Folks with business at the Court House should probably plan on business taking longer than usual.

Michael S. Mann

michaelsmann@comcast.net

I am very excited to be writing my first ever blog.  Let me introduce myself I am Elliott LaVercombe Head Teaching Professional for THE Golf Academy!  I am writing this to tell my story of how I got into golf and why golf is such a great game!

I started my passion for the game of golf when I was twelve, even though at the time I had no idea how many doors the game of golf would open for me.  I just enjoyed playing.  My grandfather introduced me to the game of golf during my summer vacations in Grand Haven, MI.  At the time soccer was still my sport and living in Colorado there wasn't much time during the year to practice golf!  Since no one in my immediate family played and since it was still an expensive game to play I stuck with Soccer until my parents moved me to St. Augustine, FL when I was a sophomore in High School.  I was fifteen and very excited about the opportunity to play more golf!  By this time I had three summers of golf with grandpa and I was getting better!

The following pets are a good example of how badly we need good pet parents -- and how many groups there are trying to get them there! Take a look here and talk with Clay County Animal Control, Safe Animal Shelter and CatBugs Pet Rescue -- you're sure to find a forever friend with any of them!

If you can't adopt now, please pass this on to your friends and family!

For full information, contact Clay County Animal Control, 3984 Florida 16 W., Green Cove Springs or call 904-269-6342. See more pets online at helpahomelesspet.org.

Rob Bradley must feel like he's at, or pretty darn close to, the very center of the Clay County political universe.  Over the past couple of years, every single major local political issue has orbited around him.

Rob's been the attorney for both Keystone Heights' and Orange Park's municipal governments, and the nephew of local judge, so he was already a local political astronaut.  What took him toward the center of the universe and started everything spinning around him was his appointment to the most recent Charter Review Commission.

The most controversial proposal that came from the CRC was one that called for the addition of two new members to the five-member County Commission, including a four-year chairman elected by voters instead of rotating the chairmanship yearly among the Commission members.  Voters agreed, so let's skip that controversy for the moment and just accept the fact for now that, in the local political universe orbiting Bradley, it's a good idea.

I went to the meeting of Citizens for Term Limits and Accountability Committee at the Fleming Island Library Wednesday night, hoping to meet in person some of the bloggers who've been complaining that the political action committee doesn't hold open meetings.

The conspiracy theorists had contended that CTLAC should, despite no legal basis, hold its meetings in the open because the PAC is proposing amendments to the County Charter.  Open the discussion to the public, like the recent official government Charter Review Commission that is required by law to hold open meetings.  That way, the theorists said, people would be able to see that CTLAC for what it really is - a small group of disgruntled people with questionable motives.

The reason it wasn't okay for the F.O.P. to make an endorsement this early was because he KNEW it would not be Rick being endorsed.By the way, back in early 2004 wasn't there a photo and big story in the Times Union or Clay Today of Rick accepting an endorsement and check from the Clay County Firefighter's Union when he was running for Sheriff. He had promised them that he world GIVE them a million dollars out of is excess budget so they could get some raises.

A few thoughts for the weekend ...

The discussion about the Outer Beltway here on the blogs is the most intelligent, easy to understand and informative than anything I've read, heard or seen among the many, many public presentations on the always-changing project. The blog contributors should be thanked, of course, but let's not forget My Clay Sun for providing this awesome community forum for the exchange of ideas and information. ...

Bill Garrison, familiar to MCS bloggers as Baxley and a member of the most recent Clay County Charter Review Commission, is stepping into the lion's den Monday night. He's going to be at the Fleming Island Library to talk about Charter Amendments relating to the composition of the County Commission with Citizens for Term Limits and Accountability. Since the topic is likely to come up for a vote in November's election, it would be a good time for folks to hear some reasonable discussion on the issue. ...