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December 31, 2000
2000
Relive the top news events of 2000 through year-end coverage from the staff of the St. Petersburg Times. Stories

Illicit acts claim young lives
Pasco County saw a steady wave of deaths due to crimes against and by youths in 2000. Some were drug-related.

Comical, wacky define news
A dog named Cannabis. A pygmy goat named Gramatica. (And pets are only part of it.)

2000 A year in review
Top 10 stories in the Pasco Times

A look at year's tragedies, triumphs
The end-of-the-year stories you've been seeing in the pages of the Pasco Times as we close out the first year of a new century fall into categories.

2000: So many fiascoes, so little newsprint
What a year.

Bulldogs' bats made for record season
The top 10 county sports stories of the year: Zephyrhills is No. 1.

Honorable mention top moments from 2000
Former Gulf soccer standout Danny Andrews won gold at the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney, Australia. Andrews kicked off his budding paralympic career in November's race, winning the 800 meters in a world-record time of 2:08.79 andestablishing himself as the event's new standard-bearer.

Countdown recap
NO. 2 -- DOMI-GATOR: Boys ruled at Land O'Lakes in 2000 as the baseball, basketball, soccer, wrestling and football teams all enjoyed fine seasons.

Jan Glidewell
Celebration is actually just a rite of survival
Why, exactly, do we celebrate the new year?

Pasco County to begin to document its history
The county will use a $20,000 grant to catalog historical architecture.

County on edge of growth explosion
Subdivisions planned for the next decade promise to bring as many as 15,000 new homes each to Wesley Chapel and Land O'Lakes.

Moonlight show set for February
The annual Moonlight and Ivory concert sponsored by the Heritage Arts Association will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Dade City Women's Club.

Ocala man arrested after 5-car pileup on I-75
DADE CITY -- An Ocala man was arrested and charged Friday night with driving drunk with a suspended license when he caused a five-vehicle accident on Interstate 75 and then ran into the woods and eluded the Florida Highway Patrol for 30 minutes, troopers said.  


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