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Thursday, June 02, 2005
* Hilton Head is working on setting up a new program known as Pictometry that it acquired last month. It is a composite of literally story continues below advertisement thousands of aerial pictures of the island, put into a software program, that will give various town departments greatly increased access to geographical information about Hilton Head
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 6-2-05
* Tybee records its first sea turtle nest of the season
-Savannah Morning News, 6-2-05
* Coastal Georgia should expect increasing numbers of visitors to the Cumberland Island National Seashore, the director of the National Park Service said Wednesday
* The first two years of alligator hunting in Georgia have proven to be so popular that state officials have decided to nearly double the number of licenses available for this year's season, while also adding 35 more counties to the list of approved hunting sites
-Florida Times Union, 6-2-05
* A major battle in the war over development on Perdido Key could be decided tonight by the Escambia County Commission. Commissioners are scheduled to vote on a proposal to abolish the key's 7,150 dwelling-unit cap
-Pensacola News Journal, 6-2-05
* A $12.5 million deal that won approval Wednesday from Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Cabinet is designed to protect state-controlled waters from oil drilling and end decades of litigation
-Tallahassee Democrat, 6-2-05
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