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January 13, 2002
Learning on the loose
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[Times photo: James Borchuck]
A primary school's littlest students embark on Pinellas County's first public Montessori program. Their education is hands-on and less structured.
Top stories
MacDill dominates chunk of sky
TAMPA -- It is a cylinder of air, about 11 miles across, starting at the surface of the South Tampa peninsula and reaching up to 1,600 feet -- a plug of sky where intruders are assumed to be the enemy and risk getting shot down.

Friends and family mourn teenage pilot
PALM HARBOR -- Because Charles Bishop always wanted to be an Air Force pilot, his friend Emerson Favreau cut a stripe off one of his father's Air Force shirts and placed it in his friend's casket.

Tampa Bay briefs
Jeep crashes into trees, killing Lutz firefighter

The week in review
Backers bail on museum that floats


South Pinellas headlines
  • Police chief opens up, with car
  • Learning on the loose
  • Assembly like one big therapy session
  • Longtime city leader hangs up council hat
  • Neighbors turn out to derail skate park
  • Pass error confounds toll booth scanners
  • Left turn on U.S. 19 opened at 110th Ave.
  • 4th false alarm to thin city wallets
  • Taxpayers strengthen families -- and society
  • Links chapter brings in the New Year in style
  • Rely on public officials, not lobbyists
  • Decision split council but city emerged winner
  • Woman killed, two injured in wreck
  • Little League pioneer George Kickliter die
  • Incomplete applications cost neighborhoods grants
  • Some pupils may be asked to move
  • Police officers getting pay raise
  • New Publix's reach could be great
  • City approves Childs Park athletic complex
  • City can help motorists avoid breaking the law
  • Weight room welcomes kids again
  • Step by step, mall walkers enjoy the fun
  • Childs Park kids to play at new athletic complex
  • City to organize new youth board
  • What's up on campus
  • Gymnasts make jump to college competition
  • Tritons take hot streak into conference play
  • Tourney director Garrett strikes up many friendships
  • Catholic school hires a legacy
  • Rotarian awards honor city's top cops

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • Aungst likely to be alone in mayor's race
  • Swept into media whirl
  • Bird count shows more species in north county
  • Candidates remain ho-hum on forum
  • If red lights don't stop you, then police might
  • Stauffer to patch up Anclote shoreline
  • Retirees make difference in students' lives
  • Headlines through the years

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Budget ills befall full-service schools
  • Grieving dog owners sue two vets

  • News of Florida
  • Governor hopefuls zero in on problems
  • Terror sweep a battle of rights and safety
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