Wanted: People to clean up outdoors
Organizers want the public to pick up on the 2002 Adopt-A-Shore effort to haul off a year's trash.

Search begins for another city manager
The Crystal River City Council will do a national search with help from a group of retired city managers.

Code board rules against incinerator
The owner says the ash helps his soil. The board says it also helps his wallet, thanks to debris trucked in and burned for a price.

Injured driver Sanders burns to return
Perhaps nothing hurts worse for a race driver than to be forced to sit on the sideline and watch as his car runs the track.

Panthers draw the line
Lecanto puts an end to its struggles with promising players up front who've blossomed.

Smoke-free eats help SWAT breathe easy
INVERNESS -- During a recent School Board meeting, members of Students Working Against Tobacco honored area restaurants that have decided to be smoke-free establishments.

Citrus briefs
Inverness man arrested on drug charges

For students, YES means opportunity
Funding from a corporate program is finding its way to parents to help pay for their child's education.

Citrus digest
Fourth bomb suspect is not charged

Editorial
Jury should have ruled on ex-officer's fatal accident
Christopher Thompson took Randy Leathers' life. Of that, there can be no doubt.

Letters
Remarks on water supply play into developers' hands
Editor: This is amazing. Overnight the whole geological structure of the state has changed, and now we have plenty of water to support more development, more golf courses. That statement, coming from Southwest Florida Water Management District, with Jim Fowler putting in his (development-at-any-cost) 2 cents' worth, has me hopping mad.