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Both sides in Naples yacht club dispute seek more time

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The two sides in a dispute over expansion of the Naples Sailing and Yacht Club into Naples Bay are asking for more time to hammer out a deal.
The yacht club filed an administrative challenge in 2007 after the state Department of Environmental Protection denied a permit for the club to add 20 slips to its [...]

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So What’s Under Our Sand?

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When the waves from Hurricane Ike receded, they left behind a mystery - a ragged shipwreck that archeologists say could be a two-masted Civil War schooner that ran aground in 1862 or another ship from some 70 years later. The wreck, about six miles from Fort Morgan, had already been partially uncovered when Hurricane Camille cleared away sand in 1969.

Researchers at the time identified it as the Monticello, a battleship that partially burned when it crashed trying to get past the U.S. Navy and into Mobile Bay during the Civil War.

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