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Drivers will encounter traffic disruptions on the following state roads in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties as crews perform construction and maintenance activities.
In preparation for the Memorial Day Holiday weekend, there will be no lane closures or other activities which impede traffic on state roads beginning 9 a.m. Friday, May 28, and ending at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, June 1.
Escambia County
U.S. 98 Pensacola Bay Bridge Replacement – The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has re-opened the Pensacola Bay Bridge, restoring the vital connection between the communities of Gulf Breeze and Pensacola along U.S. 98. The majority of the bridge is open to four lanes of traffic (two in each direction) except for a two-lane, half-mile segment just west of the bridge’s arch while work to complete final repairs continues. The speed limit is temporarily set at 35 mph and emergency refuge areas are available on the bridge. To quickly clear travel lanes following ve
Harahan making plans for Mardi Gras-style parade
Harahan Mardi Gras in May By Rob Masson | May 6, 2021 at 5:14 PM CDT - Updated May 6 at 6:43 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - One of the areaâs busiest float builders is moving ahead with plans to stage a Mardi Gras-style parade in Harahan. It is scheduled to roll on Memorial Day weekend.
In a Kenner warehouse, Carnival floats have sat idle for over a year but all that will change in three and a half weeks.
âI think thereâs going to be a crowd like thereâs never been before in Harahan. People are hungry,â said float builder Mac Cantrell.
Pride in Protest and the fight for Sydney’s queer community
Leadership struggles, online vitriol and generational change within Sydney s queer community. Photography by Aman Kapoor
April 11, 2021
Veiled in respectful silence, Taylor Square is surprisingly still, calm even. The sheer number of people that have turned up smother the occasional spot fires of nervousness that jump through the crowd. Bodies radiate quiet determination.
“I’m going to get a little bit emotional because, as I stand here on this occasion, I am recalling that first Mardi Gras”, says Mark Gillespie, microphone in hand, his voice filling Taylor Square.
Gillespie is a “78er”, one of the original protestors who marched down Oxford Street from Taylor Square on 24 June, 1978, to commemorate the Stonewall Riots. When police denied the marchers access to Hyde Park that night, where they planned to have speeches, cries of “on to the Cross” multiplied rapidly. Protestors