[Times photo: Susanne Tobin] Investigators examine the scene where a body was found inside a smashed car.

May 25, 2000

Hope for missing man ends when teens find body in car
Friends of an Ozello man missing for a month are disheartened to learn it is probably his body that two youths have found in a car smashed in a thicket.

Officials offer reward in Citrus death case
CRYSTAL RIVER -- The Citrus County Sheriff's Office is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever killed a woman found this weekend floating at the edge of the Cross Florida Barge Canal.

Group seeks environmental review of road project
HERNANDO -- A citizens group has accused the state Department of Transportation of misleading the federal government about the environmental sensitivity of Florida's plan to improve State Road 200 in Citrus and Marion counties.

Police seek to identify skull found in woods
Missing person cases are reviewed after a girl makes the find near the Hernando-Citrus line.

Programs aim to involve kids, cultivate customers
The many golf camps, clinics and tournaments in Citrus and Hernando counties benefit both parents and club officials -- and, of course, the youngsters who participate.

Women rule in Parkview tourney
They win every pot and roll three 300s in the no-tap mixed doubles event.

Schools
Deal sealed by school workers
Teacher's aides, secretaries and other support workers in the Citrus County public school system reached a contract agreement with school administrators Tuesday that provides pay raises for this school year and the next.

[Times photo: Steve Hasel] WTI's top graduates map out their futures The Withlacoochee Technical Institute Class of 2000 valedictorian is Mary Thomas, left, and the salutatorian is Brandise Reed, right.

Students win cash for attendance; car drawing is next
The final cash drawing in the Wheels for Attendance program took place Wednesday at Citrus County high schools.

Knowledge grows through planting
Citrus Springs Middle School students learn about soil, erosion and community service by planting bushes and trees at the Withlacoochee State Trail.

Store honors 2 teachers as districts' best
Julie Keiper, a special education teacher at CREST School, and Nancy Beaudet, who teaches fifth-grade math at Pleasant Grove Elementary, are named Wal-Mart Teachers of the Year.