Tampa Bay: August 1, 2001
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Fine friends
[Times photo: Krystal Kinnunen]
Despite Tuesday's cloudy weather, Emily Delarega, 11, has a good time playing around with her dog Zelda at Spring Bayou in Tarpon Springs. |
North Pinellas County news
County scurries for ballot system
The county will pick a company by early October to supply voting machines. How much? Good question. Who will choose them? Ditto.
Land in legal tangle may become park
The 4.5 acres off Gulf-to-Bay -- once the site of a proposed office building -- could be preserved if the city, county and state pitch in.
Teacher's lively Civil War tales reflect his passion for history
His Young Heroes of History series puts fun back into history for children. Textbooks, he says, are "like reading a phone book."
Largo police admit mistake in KFC threats case
The dispatcher did not relay to an officer that there were prior harassment complaints, police said.
Tarpon library program still in business
A city budget plan would fund the business assistance program largely at the expense of a similar chamber of commerce service.
Linton's squad takes Lightning championships
With Mount Etna blowing its volcanic top on the east end of the island, the team of Jeff Linton, Amy Smith Linton and Mark Taylor sailed to the Lightning Class world championships off the western shores of Marsala, Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea.
