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Saturday, March 26, 2005

* Charleston's forts, plantations and other attractions, mystified by declines in attendance, now know what ails them
* Space at the dock gets scarce as more slips are sold; More and more, public dock space is slipping away
* Lighthouse funding hopes dim; Corps of Engineers lacks money to start Morris Island project
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-27-05

* Efforts to build sand-retention devices aimed at replacing a portion of a sea wall on Daufuskie Island are moving forward
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-27-05

* Half the money generated by Beaufort County's bed tax this year will go to the tourism marketing efforts of the county's three chambers of commerce
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-27-05

* As Ponte Vedra Beach nears build-out and demand for a Ponte Vedra address remains high, condominium conversions have skyrocketed, slashing the number of rental
-Ponte Vedra Leader, 3-25-05

* A project to renourish 3.4 miles of eroded beachfront at Navarre Beach will cost more than $11 million, an increase of at least $2.4 million because of new damage from Hurricane Ivan. Nevertheless, plans are proceeding to begin pumping ashore more than 2 million cubic yards of sand from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-26-05

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