School menus: Oct. 18-22
Times staff Saturday, October 16, 2010 Elementary breakfastsAll elementary breakfasts include a choice of one main fare item, one fruit or 100 percent fruit juice and one milk choice plus an option...
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By Phyllis Day, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 16, 2010 • As part of the Hernando County Water Awareness Series, the Hernando County Utilities Department will host a program to discuss...
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Few businesses take advantage of Brooksville's matching grants
By Logan Neill, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 16, 2010 WILL VRAGOVIC | Times As she surveys the property on which her business sits, Cathy Mercogliano likes to imagine how it will look in the...
View ArticleParents on edge about rezoning of John Long Middle, Wiregrass Ranch High schools
By Jeffrey S. Solochek, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 16, 2010 WESLEY CHAPEL — Families in the Seven Oaks subdivision are gearing up for a fight as the Pasco County School District prepares to...
View ArticleU.S. House District 5 candidates share some views, diverge on social issues
By Tony Marrero, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 16, 2010 Hernando Sheriff Richard Nugent had retirement in his sights. Nugent, 59, looked forward to kicking back in 2012 after four decades in...
View ArticleLap-band surgery means you'll see less of me
By Jan Glidewell, Off/Beat Saturday, October 16, 2010 I venture out here, gingerly, to write about the gastric banding surgery I had last month. More about that later.First: Why gingerly?Over the...
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Seven early voting sites around Pasco County will open Monday
Times staff Saturday, October 16, 2010 Engineering and architectural firms build displays, like this image of the character Nemo in 2008, for the “Canstruction” food donation project sponsored by the...
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Taking on the social cost of prescription drug abuse
By Molly Moorhead, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 16, 2010 Judge Lynn Tepper speaks to a woman Tuesday who has five children and has used prescription pain pills for several years. At right is...
View ArticleIn Pasco County District 5, School Board candidates highlight differences
By Jeffrey S. Solochek, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 16, 2010 NEW PORT RICHEY — While the candidates in other races for Pasco School Board soft-pedal their differences, District 5 hopefuls...
View ArticlePalm Harbor jumps on to catch Jolley Trolley
By Drew Harwell, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 16, 2010 PALM HARBOR — The expanding Jolley Trolley route just got a new stop, with Palm Harbor set to join Dunedin and Tarpon Springs along the...
View ArticleEarly voting in Pinellas is Oct. 18-31
Times staff Saturday, October 16, 2010 CountywideEarly voting starts Monday and ends Oct. 31Early voting for the Nov. 2 general election begins Monday at 10 a.m. and continues through Oct. 31. New...
View ArticleHome invasion, hostage-taking in St. Petersburg was hoax, police said
By Luis Perez, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 16, 2010 ST. PETERSBURG — A reported home invasion and hostage-taking Saturday that drew a SWAT team, hostage negotiators and police helicopter...
View ArticleHome invasion, hostage taking in St. Petersburg was hoax, police say
By Luis Perez, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 16, 2010 ST. PETERSBURG — A reported home invasion and hostage taking Saturday that drew a SWAT team, hostage negotiators and police helicopter...
View ArticleIn her 70s, Dottie Casper played her age for laughs
By Luis Perez, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 16, 2010 TAMPA — Before she took the stage with a cane and dark cataract sunglasses and a tube of K-Y Jelly as laugh props, before she was voted...
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Low Rays attendance: The economy or fan apathy?
By Stephen Nohlgren and Michael Van Sickler, Times Staff Writers Saturday, October 16, 2010 The Rays take the field in late April with plenty of blue seats sitting empty. ST. PETERSBURG — After all of...
View ArticleDocumentary dissects schools, looks for super heroes
Saturday, October 16, 2010 Everybody needs to see Waiting for "Superman."Not because the movie does a perfect job of dissecting the problems in the American education system, and not because it offers...
View ArticleHillsborough rail plan is still taking shape
By Bill Varian, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 16, 2010 TAMPA — Advocates for a proposed penny sales tax increase on the Nov. 2 ballot have said one thing above all others: This is not just...
View ArticleMan shot, injured in Ybor City robbery
Times staff Sunday, October 17, 2010 TAMPA — A man was shot during a robbery early Sunday morning after leaving Broadway Bar in Ybor City, police said.The victim was walking to his truck parked in a...
View ArticleBeachgoers unable to revive overboard kayaker off Honeymoon Island
By Dominick Tao, Times Staff Writer Sunday, October 17, 2010 By Dominick TaoDUNEDIN — Witnesses on shore saw Patrick G. Willoughby set off in his kayak Sunday afternoon, a boater paddling under clear...
View ArticleTransit tax money would bring road relief throughout Hillsborough
By Janet Zink, Times Staff Writer Sunday, October 17, 2010 TAMPA — Anyone who travels on Interstate 75 near Gibsonton Drive and Big Bend Road knows what to expect there during the morning and evening...
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