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Year in review

[Times photo: Lance Rothstein]
New makes the news in 2001
Pasco County got a lot of new things in 2001.
Neighbors, pagans learn to coexist
DADE CITY -- When Dottye Anderson and fiance Jim Blake proposed opening a pagan retreat on a rural farm outside Dade City, neighbors were less than thrilled.
Budget cuts peril PHCC's rapid track
The past year at Pasco-Hernando Community College can be summed up in two paradoxical words: growth and cuts.
Here they are: famous foibles that made news

2001: Year in review, Part 1

Jan Glidewell
Time to say goodbye to year tainted by terror
Notice how quiet the tabloids have been this year with their usual year-end psychic predictions.

Era of infrastructure, infighting
NEW PORT RICHEY -- The year in New Port Richey was marked by a seven-month deliberation of a $1.4-million street improvement project, a declaration of the entire city as blighted, rancorous outcry from residents and clashes between City Council members.

New City Hall; old city feuds
PORT RICHEY -- The good news in Port Richey during 2001 was that construction on a long awaited new City Hall began in May.

Police reports
Deputy arrests man for wearing a hood