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News Articles: Tybee Island

Welcome sign to Tybee Island, with a sea turtle sculpture above.

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Tybee Island seeks special sales tax to fund infrastructure upgrades

The levy faces several hurdles before it can be imposed.

December 13, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
Tybee Island Department of Public Works employee Bruce Saunders uses a backhoe to pile sand as a barriers against storm surge from Tropical Storm Debby at a beach access point, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Tybee Island, Ga.

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More deadly than wind, storm surge from Hurricane Helene could be devastating

Storm surge is a bigger killer than wind when a major hurricane hits shore. The areas in the path of Hurricane Helene are more susceptible to surge than other parts of Florida's coast.

September 26, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Author Stephen Hundley at GPB's studios in Atlanta.

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In 'Bomb Island' Stephen Hundley crafts a coming-of-age story on a Georgia barrier island

In Bomb Island, a teenager named Fish lives as the adopted son of island-dwellers who make their living running boat tours of the site where a nuclear bomb was accidentally dropped into the ocean decades ago.

May 30, 2024
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By:
  • Peter Biello
A recently hatched shorebird rests in its nest. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current

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Beachgoers and their dogs threaten nesting shorebirds

Georgia beaches beckon not only locals and tourists, but also nesting shorebirds and seabirds and migrating species beefing up for long flights to the Arctic.

May 29, 2024
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By:
  • Mary Landers
Savannah activist and volunteer Jaydon Grant, right, poses for a photo with Fight Dirty Tybee organizer Tim Arnold during a beach cleanup on Tybee Island after this year's Orange Crush gathering.

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  • Politics

‘Orange Crush is not going away’: Activist says more Tybee Island policing won't end festival

With a heavier police presence than in 2023, the Tybee Island Police Department made more arrests at this year's Orange Crush gathering.

April 30, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Welcome sign to Tybee Island, with a sea turtle sculpture above.

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  • Politics

‘This bill is not designed to stop Orange Crush’: Lawmaker shares outlook on Tybee Island gathering

Senate Bill 443 empowers local governments to seek financial damages from unpermitted event organizers.

April 19, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
A worker places a section of metal barricade along a main road on Tybee Island, Ga., on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, a few days ahead of the weekend beach party known as Orange Crush. Black college students started the spring bash at Georgia's largest public beach more than 30 years ago. Tybee Island officials are blocking roads and parking spaces and brining in about 100 extra police officers for the party this weekend, saying record crowds last year proved unruly and dangerous.

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A Georgia beach aims to disrupt Black students' spring bash after big crowds brought chaos in 2023

Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at Georgia's largest public beach shouldn't expect a warm welcome. Tybee Island's city leaders are bringing in dozens of extra police officers and using barricades to block parking lots and residential streets during Orange Crush, a sprawling beach party begun three decades ago.

April 18, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Tybee Island Police Department police cars

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Tybee Island hopes new tools quiet Orange Crush weekend

Local and state officials who were fed up with Orange Crush or never liked it in the first place couldn’t ban the annual rite of spring outright after last year’s traffic and management debacle. But 

April 16, 2024
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By:
  • Craig Nelson and
  • The Current
Marshland on Tybee Island

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  • Environment

Tybee Island gets federal grant for ‘living shoreline’ to protect against marsh flooding

The $380,000 grant will be matched by $320,000 in city funds.

December 11, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
The Tybee Island City Council, as seen during its meeting on June 8, 2023.

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  • Politics

‘Power grab’ or ‘public safety’: Tybee Island resolution calls for crackdown on unpermitted events

The measure seeks stiffer penalties for violations of existing ordinances, similar to a Florida law already on the books.

June 12, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
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  • News

Georgia Today: GOP convention recap; Tybee Island resolution; Georgia-based play wins Tonys

On the Monday June 12th edition of Georgia Today: State Republicans elect a new leader at the GOP convention in Columbus; the Tybee Island City Council tables a resolution to expand the city's emergency powers; and a musical based on lynching of a Jewish man in Georgia wins two Tony awards. 

June 12, 2023
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
Coastal development along the Tybee Island beachfront in Chatham County, Georgia

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  • Politics

Tybee Island asks lawmakers to consider closing highway access when events ‘overwhelm’ city

Closures of Highway 80 are among the proposed measures.

May 12, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Tybee Island Police Lieutenant Emory Randolph briefs law enforcement officers from various state agencies on April 28, 2023, at the city's Burke Day Public Safety Building.

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  • Politics

Tybee Island preps for unpermitted ‘Peach Fest,’ explores legal options for limiting future access

City attorneys are “looking into what we can do to have better control” over island access, Tybee Island's mayor said.

April 28, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Campers left a knife embedded in a tree on Twin Palms in January.

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  • Environment

DNR clears illegal encampments from Little Tybee

A local police officer is among the regular users of the semi-permanent encampments on the state Heritage Preserve, for decades. But the Department of Natural Resources began removing structures Monday, Feb. 13.

February 17, 2023
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  • Mary Landers

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GPB evening headlines for December 26, 2022

Georgia Tech researchers are using funding from the U.S Department of energy to reimagine Atlanta’s electric power infrastructure. 

Federal proposals designed to protect Tybee Island from storm surges have been signed into law.

December 26, 2022
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