By Sally Apgar, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Nov. 3--Time was tight. Tropical Storm Noel was swirling closer and Chris Strand needed an emergency engineering fix.

By South Florida Sun-Sentinel Oct. 5--ISSUE: Recent storms wash away area beaches. This time, the turtles lucked out. Most of them anyway. It was all that beach sand -- and the taxpayer's wallet that bankrolled it -- that's gotten walloped by recent storms.

By Rachael Joyner and Dianna Cahn, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Oct. 3--Turtle eggs dotted the beach in Jupiter on Tuesday, while 50 miles south in Deerfield Beach turtle nesting signs from the north washed up along a jagged shoreline.

By Sally Apgar, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jul. 1--Singer Island Margaret Albano turned her back on the shimmering waves and suspiciously eyed the new slope of dunes that stretched from the beach up toward her condo tower.

By Sally Apgar, South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 30--SINGER ISLAND -- Dump trucks carrying the first of more than 4,000 loads of sand rolled onto the beach Tuesday to rebuild 10-foot-high dunes to protect homes and buildings along the shore just as hurricane season arrives.