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April 21, 2002

Tampa Bay: April 21, 2002
Diapers and diplomas
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[Times photo: Scott Keeler]
Ivanna Rubio doesn't need an alarm clock. The smacking of her baby's lips is enough to awaken her at 2:30 in the morning.
North Pinellas County news
Motel's latest amenity: a police sting
The business had been abuzz with illegal activity. The bank was about to foreclose. Then the police had an idea: Take it over and go undercover.

Assembly to seek common ground
The American Assembly, drawn from across the social spectrum, will try to create a shared vision for Pinellas.

Rotary bucks trend of dwindling clubs
As a cultural shift shrinks other service clubs and recruiting becomes more difficult, the Largo Rotary Club thrives.

Where Florida stands still
Pinellas' plans to buy 88 acres of undeveloped gulffront land may help capture a glimpse of the state's past.

Tarpon now roots for one league
Two sets of youth football teams merge, eliminating the limit on participants and bringing the community together.

Election unlikely to affect project
An affordable housing complex should survive regardless of Tuesday's vote, though residents could send a message about their tolerance for such projects.

Win or lose, vote has message
There are probably few Oldsmar residents who know they need to go to the polls Tuesday to vote in a referendum. Even fewer may know that this referendum, if it passes, cannot accomplish the goal that its instigators had in mind.

High school should have traffic light
Re: School welcomes signal at perilous crossing, story, April 10.

Headlines through the years
A look back at the events, people and places that made North Pinellas the unique place that it is. The information is compiled from past editions of the St. Petersburg Times.

Making state nothing new for the Titans
Even though St. Petersburg College eliminated the "Junior" from its title and changed its nickname from Trojans to Titans this school year, its new name is familiar to people in the Florida Junior College Athletic Association.

Neighborhood notebook
County leader will discuss future of North Pinellas


Tampa Bay headlines
  • Book backlash turns new page
  • Brainy teams go head to head
  • Exposure to HIV feared for seduced teenage girl
  • Now that's cheap
  • Bay area priest accused, resigns
  • Metro week in review
  • Reno echoes marchers' demand for health care
  • 'Sister' Hemingway, teacher, disciplinarian

  • South Pinellas headlines
  • Seminole student an involved volunteer
  • Rays fan complains of climb to the Beach
  • City urged to loosen rules for developers
  • Pass-a-Grille estate may become a pile of bricks
  • Police chief still has a commute
  • Vision creates beautiful, vibrant city
  • Photography rules the day at Mainsail arts festival
  • Family asks help in solving murder
  • Growing pain
  • Beaches notebook
  • Azalea library closing plan provokes some grumbling
  • New reward offered in animal cruelty case
  • Art connoisseurs gather for dinner and decision
  • Blue street reflectors point out fire hydrants
  • Antics in bad taste or part of the territory?
  • City makes way for triathlon
  • Porn dismissal case goes to arbitration
  • What's up on campus
  • Largo boys get Cup berth, title to boot
  • PHU players follow through for coaches

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Conservative giver fills GOP coffers in commission race

  • North of Tampa
  • The importance of cake
  • Swim school plans a new site
  • WestShore gears up to cater to customers
  • A mellow hangout
  • Open & Shut
  • Chiefs avenge 1 loss, fall in tennis final
  • Slumping Chamberlain prepares for playoffs
  • Sickles seeks to defend title
  • A concrete idea
  • Sports briefs
  • Firefighters spread out as department goes pro
  • Goins, going, gone: Fire association changes hands
  • Inspector's persistence paying off
  • Tampa Palms hires landscaping firm
  • Neighborhood notebook
  • School might land near Children's Home
  • School briefs
  • Schools roundup

  • News of Florida
  • Florida's Great Northwest: Brought to you by the St. Joe Company (with your help)
  • Phone rate flap to land in PSC's lap
  • Lawmaker battled cancer, now ouster
  • Bush draws attention, cash from all over
  • On state's watch, 10 young lives lost
  • Crash investigators focus on track
  • Lesson of Millview is learned decades later
  • Development vs. environment leads to give-and-take meeting
  • New computer system will allow for instant case updates
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