Tampa Bay: February 10, 2002
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Touching all the bases
[Times photo: Jim Damaske]
CLEARWATER -- Pearl Moran looked at the candidates on the sample ballot for Pinellas County's brand-new voting machines and laughed. |
North Pinellas County news
Report to tell if case was handled fairly
TARPON SPRINGS -- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has completed an investigation of a fatal shooting in which two men were handling a gun after a night of drinking.
Hopefuls struggle for advantage
DUNEDIN -- Water rates, the city's policy on commissioners accepting gifts, the city's financial situation and, of course, the Toronto Blue Jays.
New station to mean faster fire response
Backed by statistics saying response times to northwest Clearwater are inadequate, the city will build a new fire station there.
Talk to discuss past, future
LARGO -- When Sandra Rooks and her group of friends were growing up in Tallahassee, they used to sneak up to the whites-only fountain at a five-and-dime store and steal drinks of water. Sometimes they were caught, and furious whites chased them off.
Growing deficits make mayor fret
LARGO -- Mayor Bob Jackson thinks Largo is spending too much money.
After 42 years, ring is returned
A couple in Arizona sends a 63-year-old retired judge his University of Notre Dame ring decades after it was lost.
Dunedin did try to keep Nielsen
Re: In Dunedin, questions of control, communication, editorial, Jan. 27.
Yielding to school traffic
Anyone who regularly picks up a child at a Pinellas County school following afternoon dismissal knows it is a miracle each day that no one is hurt or killed in a traffic accident near the school.
Woman killed, driver charged
REDINGTON SHORES -- A 69-year-old woman from Massachusetts was killed by a drunken driver Saturday afternoon while trying to get into her car, which was parked along Gulf Boulevard, authorities said.
Try out new voting machines
Voters can try out Pinellas County's new touch screen voting machines at several locations around the county in the next few weeks.
Know your candidates
Cecil Englebert
