Hanging around [Times photo: Douglas R. Clifford] New Port Richey students, from left, Jordan Hall, 15, Heidi Riese, 13, and Nick LoBianco, 15, visit the Sims Park amphitheater Friday while enjoying a break from classes.

Breathing problems reported at thrift store
CLEARWATER -- A Clearwater thrift store was evacuated Monday after volunteers there became ill and complained of having trouble breathing.

Officials rebuked for racy e-mails
Clearwater's interim city manager calls such use of city computers by two top officials inappropriate.

Student teacher relives kindergarten
With pleasant memories of nap time and sing-alongs, she teams up with her former kindergarten teacher for an internship.

Clerk thwarts store robbery
DUNEDIN -- A Clearwater man was in jail Monday on $50,000 bail after he tried to rob a Dunedin drugstore with a can of pepper spray because he needed money for rent, deputies said.

Deputy shoots at theft suspects
A Pinellas County sheriff's deputy responding to a shoplifting fired a shot at a moving car after someone inside threw beer bottles at him early Monday, officials said.

Little League set to honor 'role model'
The Oldsmar Little League will name a city baseball complex after Robyn "The Beaver" Beverland.

Oldsmar mulls new water rates
Water bills could jump by 16 percent and sewer rates by 7 percent under a consultant's recommendation.

City code officials may gain help
If an ordinance passes, deputies who patrol Seminole will be able to cite code violators.

Meeting set on crossing safety
Officials disagree on what to do about children who cross at 119th Street and Ulmerton Road.

Reclaimed water may extend reach
Commissioners will consider installing the lines to Colonial Oaks and Park View Estates.

Pinellas digest
Traffic stop ends in 4-vehicle pileup

Barbershop group seeks full range of male voices
PALM HARBOR -- The Palm Harbor Men's Barbershop Chorus is expanding its membership and is looking for tenors, leads, baritones and basses who enjoy barbershop harmony.

Taxes need to help year-round residents more
Re: Plan offered to remake downtown, Oct. 11 story.

Man found guilty in slaying of teenager
The admitted crack addict is convicted in the 1998 attack on two teens which left one dead.

Sunshine Speedway's double points make for monster of night
Buried somewhere in a dark corner of the human mind, crowded between good intentions and self-preservation, lurks the snarling fiend of anger and retribution.

Anna Mae Noell, 86, owned Chimp Farm
Anna Mae Noell, who along with her late husband owned and operated Noell's Ark Chimp Farm in Palm Harbor, died Sunday at Helen Ellis Memorial Hospital in Tarpon Springs. She was 86.

Achievers
Amy L. Hahn, a 1996 graduate of Clearwater High School, graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of science degree from Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, N.C.

School briefs
Chip in for the Teach-In

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