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January 4, 2003
Tampa Bay: January 4, 2003
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Dead tree lives again as art
[Times photo: Jim Damaske]
A woodcarver labors for 15 months to coax new, imaginative life from the carcass of a 150-year-old oak tree in Central Park.
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North Pinellas County news
In a snap, elusive egret wins man $1,000 grand prize
A Dunedin man wins a photo contest with his image of the egret. But he's over birds now, and on to alligator shots.
Granada Shopping Center's Publix to close, rebuild
The grocery will soon shut its doors for several months while it builds a new, larger store.
Hear ye, hear ye! Last call for actors
This is the last year the Renaissance Festival will be in Largo. The show is looking for a few more performers.
Community aid flows to family after fire
Friends, neighbors and co-workers gather supplies and stump for donations after a fire engulfs a family's home on New Year's Day.
Wanted man found living in Tarpon
TARPON SPRINGS -- Police and the FBI Thursday night arrested a fugitive in a Michigan sex crimes case who had been living in Tarpon Springs under an assumed name.
Planner returns to state for Oldsmar
The city hires as community development director a UF graduate in landscape architecture who has worked 10 years in planning jobs in Alabama.
TV show chronicles Epiphany in Tarpon
TARPON SPRINGS -- This year's Epiphany celebration is not until Monday, but a documentary scheduled to show on cable television early Sunday could help celebrants set the mood.
Military news
Army Pvt. Jamie V. Taschetti, son of Anna Barrette of Clearwater, graduated from basic training at Fort Knox, Ky., in the 1st Battalion 46th Infantry. Taschetti, who graduated from Garden City High School in New York, has been assigned to Fort Eustis, Va., for aircraft structural repair training.
Court reports
Peacock killer pleads guilty, receives probation
Tampa Bay headlines
Settlement rule muzzles lawyer, just not for good
Quietly, hope lives for Tampa GOP bash
Deputy injured in chase
Students of the circus
Shoppers gone, so Bucs coming
South Pinellas headlines
Filming may delay Skyway traffic
Hillsborough headlines
Shooting suspect faces hate crime charge
Five step up to fill Iorio's shoes
Officer killed in motorcycle accident
Program opens playing field to disabled children
Three stabbed in early-morning Ybor fight
Stabbed kids sent home with father
A closer look: one Hillsborough church
Sandra Thompson: Even if candidates can deliver, should they?
News of Florida
Stores extend reach to Canada
Florida community colleges lead in Southeast
Crash leaves Tampa woman brain dead
Around the state
DCF records on lost kids demanded
Grateful Bush says farewell to troops
Lucy Morgan: Wild cards come up in Bush's reshuffling
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