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Thousands of beachgoers braved stifling heat and humidity Friday some setting up before dawn to cheer on the Blue Angels for their first full homecoming dress rehearsal in three years. The consensus on the beach Friday? Things finally feel back to normal after a difficult year of pandemic disruptions including the cancellation of the Blue’s show last year and the Pensacola Bay Bridge’s nine-month closure. Early traffic counts approached what they were in 2019, bars and restaurants were happily overrun, and the Blue Angels put on a stellar performance over the emerald waters reminding the crowd why they’re hometown favorites. ....
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CRESTVIEW Local tech entrepreneur and education leader Paul Hsu doesn’t understand “no,” “delay” and “maybe,” Triumph Gulf Coast Board Chairman Don Gaetz told an audience of more than 200 people Wednesday evening at Bob Sikes Airport. They were gathered in an almost 27,000-square-foot former light manufacturing facility that, thanks to Hsu’s vision, has been renovated into a multimillion-dollar school called the Northwest Florida State College Aviation Center of Excellence. What Hsu understands is, “We’re going to do the right thing, we’re going to do it for the young people of Northwest Florida and we’re going to do it now,” Gaetz told the crowd at the center’s grand opening. ....
Tourism officials have said that the bridge detour over Garcon Point Bridge in Santa Rosa County for the past few months has affected some tourists plans by making it more difficult to travel between Pensacola and the beach. However, the biggest impact has come from locals avoiding taking weekend trips to the beach. Escambia County Commissioner Robert Bender, whose district covers the beach, said Memorial Day weekend traffic can be difficult to gauge because so many people carpool in groups or stay out at the beach for events such as the annual LGBT Memorial Weekend Pensacola celebration. Still, he said, the traffic counts seem to be rising close to the pre-pandemic numbers of 2019. ....