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July 31, 2001


Tax free holiday helps cut costs from head to toe
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[Times photo: Steve Hasel]
Consumers are expected to save about $30-million during the event, while stores have added staff to handle the expected increase in customers.
Jan Glidewell
Sometimes ethics can conflict with interests
There's a story floating around Pasco County now that I would love to have a piece of. It has all of the earmarks of good satire fodder -- squabbles, name calling, a buffoon or three -- but I can't write about it because I am personally close to one of the players.

Similar methods may link motel robberies
INVERNESS -- He walks into a motel cautiously, posing as a price-conscious consumer. After making inquiries about the cost of a room, he leaves, saying he must check with his wife.

Volcanic ash delays trip home
Two Lecanto residents, leading a group of 55 students, are stranded in the British Virgin Islands because of an eruption 200 miles away.

Arrest total for raft race reaches four
Organizers say that doesn't tarnish the success of the event, which they estimate attracted more than 6,000 people.

Suncoast Parkway draws closer to county line
Delayed by a search for artillery shells, a 10-mile portion of the toll road between SR 50 and U.S. 98 in Hernando County will open soon.

Crystal River is dealt first post-season loss
The team is knocked to the loser's bracket after a 9-7 setback to Meridian.

Around & about
JUNIOR GOLF: Citrus County Parks and Recreation and the Plantation Inn are offering a clinic starting Aug. 6.

Citrus briefs
State conducts controlled burns  


Other North Suncoast news
  • Report: Divide efforts on growth
  • Smaller raises probable for teachers
  • River may hold new sinkhole
  • Brooksville firefighter faces new suspension after arrest
  • Mosquito wars might escalate
  • 'Big box' ordinance has look of a winner
  • Tollway figures a familiar pattern
  • Hernando Review
  • Fort Walton Beach bowler strikes it rich in regional
  • Ex-Eagle top county wrestler in event
  • Planned burning could affect road visibility
  • Toxicology tests ordered in death
  • Tokyo television sizes up big eater
  • Hit-run kills unborn baby
  • Hard to figure cost of pay-its-way home
  • Budget grows, but school tax bill might shrink
  • Persistence results in arrest in fatal hit-and-run case
  • Group effort minces rattler
  • Main Street needs vision, not reduced city funding
  • Patients' bill of rights improves health care
  • Hundreds pay peanuts to hear concerts by Christian bands
  • Casino company sues Port Richey
  • Around the county
  • Young wins national clay court title
  • Troy Hambrick impressive early
  • Group to distribute USDA surplus

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