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A touch of discipline

[Times photo: Joseph Garnett Jr.]
For high schoolers in Junior ROTC, the program means learning leadership and organization skills. And wearing a nifty uniform.

Jan Glidewell
Prospective snowbird considers his perches
Maybe the grass between the shuffleboard courts is always greener.

'Roller coaster' circumstances ruined egg farm
Details of a five-month investigation prompted by thousands of chicken deaths reveal how a veteran food company suddenly unraveled.

The quiet of the road yields noisy invention
Mix a pipe, a balloon and creative Bucs fans with a lot of time to think. The result: U.S. Patent number 6,386,938.

Become a foster parent and get rich! Yeah, right
Tired of dismal stock returns, multilevel marketing efforts that yield little or a continued failure to hit more than three numbers on the Lotto drawing?

Friday night rewind
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Flying high
No one has stopped the Land O'Lakes aerial duo of Drew Weatherford and Logan Payne.

Wildcats: Rams are no flukes
Ridgewood hung with Wesley Chapel until the very end.

Special Olympians begin competing Monday in Indoor Games
HUDSON -- Monday begins a four-day run of special events in Pasco County.

Letters
Effort to sue caring family is appalling
Re: Family accused of being a business, Sept. 26