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       The town council will hold at least one  workshop to discuss plans for how to expand alcohol sales onto the bahting beaches, something that most bars, restaurants and resorts can't do now. Town Community Deveopment Director Walter Fluegel has laid out a plan that would required drinkers to sit behind ropes and bollards near the business and not be able to mingle with beachgoers laying on blankets out on the  bathing beaches. The drinks would have to remain in that confined area. The Lee County Sheriff's Department has enorsed that restriction to make it easier for their deputies to know where the boundaries are. But councilman Joe Kosinski is opposed to the confinement and wants to let drinkers go out onto the bathing beaches.  Under Fluegel's plan the sales of alchohol outiside on the beaches would have to end one hour after sunset. Two public hrearings will be held on whatever plan the council finally goes forward with. We'll let you know the dates of those hearings.