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December 23, 2001
Students learn outside charter school
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[Times photo: Ken Helle]
TAMPA -- It's the Tuesday before Thanksgiving at Trinity School for Children, and scores of families are gathered in the open field beside the school. Tables are covered with chicken, fruit and finger foods.
Mary Jo Melone
Teaching our children not so well
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South Pinellas headlines
  • Chief's firing splits, confounds neighbors
  • Residents protest zoning plan change
  • This old creek
  • St. Pete Beach delays land changes
  • Cracker village a gem needing polish
  • Small-scale condos in works for downtown
  • Horseshoe player's pitch for pits pays off
  • School leader's head is 86.51% to dye for
  • County denies new zoning for businesses
  • Shoe store helps scores walk a bit more proudly
  • Move to St. Pete Beach lifts manager's salary
  • Owner wants escaped Yorkies to come home
  • A word to dogged trolley riders, fast I-275 drivers
  • Little Santa, big helpers save Christmas
  • Gulfport residents protest utility's plan to cut trees
  • GI's painting makes an incredible journey
  • Lost dog home for Christmas
  • Kulaga finishing on sweet note in Sugar
  • Pinellas competitors mastering marathon
  • Some Christmas presents, wishes for area bowlers

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • 12 Days of Pinellas
  • Looking for fun? County wants to help
  • Special gifts for a special boy all in a day's work
  • Question: Where will guests come from?
  • Protect future of our past
  • Doctors don't provide for our basic needs
  • Man charged with DUI in death of biker
  • Headlines through the years
  • Kulaga finishing on sweet note in Sugar

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Childhood dream of bike fills 400 wishes
  • Judge earns respect, enemies
  • Gonzmart of the Columbia dies

  • News of Florida
  • Officials fight plan to reduce class size
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