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April 17, 2002
Tampa Bay: April 17, 2002
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Collective exhale
[Times photo: Dirk Shadd]
Their task complete, Festival of States organizers assess the 81st event, which showed signs of renewed viability.
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South Pinellas County news
Library to serve as community commons
The 52,000-square-foot building will contain meeting rooms, lots of computers, a cafe, a teen hangout and a drive-through book dropoff.
Ex-mayor rejected for unity assembly
A group trying to plot future relations between the cities and the county thought Cecil Bradbury was too political a choice.
Popular soccer coach accused of stealing
Ronald Faw was arrested after the Azalea Youth Soccer League came up about $10,500 short.
Man punched by officer plans to sue St. Pete Beach
He says he did not expect to sue St. Pete Beach for the 1999 incident until another police officer made it difficult to rebuild his life there.
A private pickle
A grand step to put public housing in private hands falters, but optimism -- at least in some quarters -- hasn't.
Leave our one-way streets alone!
As so many residents of St. Petersburg are upset over the proposed conversion of our one-way street system, I wish to submit the following: Don't let this happen!
Students go far in brain game
They were so close they could taste victory.
Project will record the city's artistic heartbeat
ST. PETERSBURG -- Music City it isn't.
New shop combines art for sale, tea room
ST. PETERSBURG -- Susan Perry, a former merchandiser for stores in New York and Manhattan, and Bonny Ludwig, a freelance artist and instructor, have opened Bliss at 405 Central Ave., Suite 102, St. Petersburg. The combination gift shop and tea room inside the Snell Arcade grew out of the two friends' shared interest in art. "From the very beginning, we were very much together, visually, on how certain things should be displayed," Perry said.
Business headlines
Detroit Hotel ready for May occupancy
Working: A day on the job in South Pinellas County
Mattie Atwater, 66
Achievers
Southside math teacher wins excellence award
Determination and reward
The school district will recognize fifth- and eighth-graders who excel in the PRIDE awards ceremony tonight.
Theater steps up with lively '30s show
ST. PETERSBURG -- A Cole Porter musical that starred Ethel Merman in its original Broadway run hits the stage Thursday at the St. Petersburg Little Theater.
Heroes with four legs come to SPCA's rescue
Nothing increases an event's "awwww" factor more than the presence of well-behaved furry creatures.
Palladium celebrates scorched mortgage
ST. PETERSBURG -- Mortgage payments for the nonprofit Palladium Theater were carried away like ashes in the wind, thanks to donations taken in at a "mortgage burning party" Sunday.
Revived festival provides toe-tapping good time
SEMINOLE -- Take one sunny afternoon, some cool breezes and lively bluegrass music and what do you have?
Missing sign gone for repairs
ST. PETERSBURG -- The mysterious disappearance of a sign marking the Tierra Verde Burial Mounds near the entrance to Fort De Soto Park since 1962 has been solved.
Fuller defied early death to gamble big in business
Uber-businessman H. Walter Fuller made eight fortunes -- his first at 21 -- and lost seven of them, says his son.
Beaches notebook
The Florida Department of Transportation will host a public meeting April 30 to accept comments about the replacement for John's Pass Bridge.
Numbers crunchers gobble up competition
The Pinellas County Gifted Math Meet gives students around the county a chance to match wits with each other.
Townhomes deemed wrong for 'Main St.'
SEMINOLE -- When Seminole's comprehensive land use plan was written in the late 1980s, city leaders at the time envisioned a central business district on Johnson Boulevard by 2010. A place the city could call Main Street.
Focus on volunteers
The 2002 Mainsail Arts Festival scheduled for this weekend at Straub Park along downtown St. Petersburg's waterfront, needs volunteers to sell T-shirts, posters and concessions, distribute brochures and help in the information booth. Call Mary Myers, 893-7886.
Chambers gets a shot to play in Italia Cup
Jeff Chambers never has gotten over his love for competition.
Neikens makes up lost ground in Mini Stock class
St. Petersburg's Marty Neikens drove his red, white and blue No. 70 Mini Stock from no-man's land to the winner's circle Saturday night, redeeming himself after blowing a motor the previous week. Starting 12th in a 16-car field, Neikens had his work cut out. A few lucky breaks and some entanglements at the front of the pack helped bring the 12th-year Mini driver to the checkered flag. Most of all, though, it was the shocks.
Tampa Bay headlines
Suit: Drug behind suicide flight
City will gauge progress at Pier
Spring in their step
Two describe going for a spin -- the hard way
MacDill cheers former mayor
Airports inching back toward normal
New school named for longtime legislator
Valentine Shaffer, educator, dies at 86
Howard Troxler
In ballpark, one can see Rays of hope start to shine
North Pinellas headlines
Pinellas digest
Residents make case to restore festival
Clever students win competition
Face scan checks visitors at county jail
New stores will join Drew 19 mall
Experts: Despite lost nest, eagles to return
Renaissance festival issue needed a vote
Don't skimp on tools, training for firefighters
Philanthropist, car dealer honored at lunch
Mayor tries to captivate crowd of preschoolers
Cadet accuses ex-commandant of sexual abuse
Triathletes are ready for Fort DeSoto event
Hillsborough headlines
Police seek man in 5 bank heists since March 15
News of Florida
Governor enters growing battle over redistricting
Nurses sue over prison harassment
Three colleges vie for four-year status
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