May 20, 2000
Tampa Bay: May 20, 2000
North Pinellas County news
Beach bash planned in June
After learning the Clearwater Jazz Holiday would not return this year to Clearwater Beach, a business owner gets into action and organizes a new event.
Fire damages apartments
CLEARWATER -- A two-alarm blaze Friday afternoon gutted one apartment and damaged three others at an east Clearwater complex.
Summer school is music to their ears
The School Board will vote on an alliance with Largo Cultural Center, allowing students to earn summer credits with work on West Side Story.
Dunedin Causeway to get a new look
Pinellas County agrees to give Dunedin $30,000 a mile for landscape plants and $10,000 per mile per year to maintain them.
Wall damage raises library repair costs
Replacing the entire north wall bumps up the bill. Council members decide to begin planning for a new building.
Oldsmar approves zoning change
OLDSMAR -- City Council members have unanimously approved changing the residential zoning of about 70 acres at the Tampa Bay Park of Commerce back to industrial and manufacturing.
Tarpon resisting police charge is dropped
The man's attorney says police targeted him because of his acquittal in a shovel-beating case.
Lealman fire plans include firetruck
If all goes well, a substation on Park Street will open soon and handle medical crises and fires. To do that the fire board is considering buying a firetruck.
Prosecutors drop charge of resisting police
TARPON SPRINGS -- The Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office has decided not to prosecute Theofilos Mamouzelos on charges that he resisted a police officer during Greek Easter celebrations.
Seniors ministry is reinvigorated
Within about a year, a Clearwater church has quadrupled its senior participation.
Clearwater City Commission digest
The Clearwater City Commission took the following actions Thursday night:
Tampa Bay headlines
Out of control
At ground zero with the crew of Engine 6
Blaze strikes at the heart of Ybor renewal
Two companies sue Pinellas over billboard rules
Suspect pleads no contest in homeless man's slaying
South Pinellas headlines
Committee suspends efforts for fountain
Officers to enforce skateboard prohibition
Neighbors break into home to help wounded resident
Man takes deal, pleads no contest in beating
St. Petersburg residents can water two times after all
School play is part of Fine Arts Festival
Some believe in power of the almighty human
Scammer stays out of prison
Hillsborough headlines
Judge rules mistrial after DNA dispute
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