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Sawmill Festival Pageant entry deadline set for Friday
Friday is the deadline to enter the Patterson Cypress Sawmill Festival Pageant that will be held on March 17 at 6 p.m. at the Patterson Area Civic Center. Applications from young women in St. Mary ...
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Free workshop Thursday offers producers seafood marketing tips
A free workshop sponsored by the LSU AgCenter to help seafood producers get their products to market and to comply with regulations will be Thursday at the Shrimp Festival building in Delcambre. Fr...
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Mayor Matte toasts Hephaestus
MORGAN CITY MAYOR Tim Matte invited members of the Krewe of Hephaestus royal court and board of directors for a toast Feb. 20 on the City Hall balcony. Krewe members also gathered at A.J. Dohmann l...
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Catholic Daughters make donation to Emergency Aid Center
CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS of the Americas, Court Sacre’ 2572 visited the Emergency Aid Center on Valentine’s Day to present a $300 check to Director Patti Ibert for the center’s Blanket Fund. The Court al...
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Hephaestus Kings' Party held
THE KREWE OF HEPHAESTUS Kings’ Party was hosted Jan. 27 by King Hephaestus L Greg Price to honor King Hephaestus LI Gary Duhon. The event was held at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City. From left ar...
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Landry busy promoting festival
ALLI LYNNE LANDRY, 76th Shrimp and Petroleum Festival queen, attended the International Rice Festival in Crowley where she congratulated Queen Macy Leblanc, left in top photo. Landry attended the L...
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Franklin Republican Women install new officers
THE FRANKLIN REPUBLICAN WOMEN recently held its Installation of Officers for 2012 at the Forest Restaurant in Franklin. Newly elected officers pictured from left are LFRW President June Williams ar...
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PATTERSON GARDEN Club has presented one of its February Yard of the Month awards to Carol and Alayna Portier. The Portier yard is landscaped with crape myrtles, agapanthus, nandina, liriope, poinsettia and various shrubbery.
PGC recognizes Portier yard

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Entrants sought for March Cypress Sawmill Pageant
The Patterson Cypress Sawmill Festival Pageant will be held on March 17 at 6 p.m. at the Patterson Area Civic Center. Deadline for entry is March 2. Young women from St. Mary Parish, Assumption Par...
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Hanson students visit nursing home
HANSON MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL Touch Team members recently visited Franklin Health Care Center to spread Mardi Gras cheer. The students walked through the halls of the facility handing out Mardi Gras ...
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Boudreaux grows huge turnip
Eugene Boudreaux grew this 12.8 pound turnip this winter in his garden. Boudreaux grows along La. 182 on the Franklin side of the Baldwin Bridge.
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BETH ERWIN, left, presented a program on wildflowers and other native plants that are grown in Louisiana, during Bayou Vista Garden Club’s February meeting. Erwin is Louisiana Garden Club Federation Wildflowers and Native Plants chairman, curator of the Kalorama Nature Preserve in Collinston and secretary of the Louisiana Native Plant Society. Presenting her with a gift of appreciation is BVGC Vice President Program Chairman Donna Bucci.
Native plants topic of BVGC February meeting
“Wild and Wonderful: Louisiana’s Native Plants for Public and Private Gardens” was the theme for Bayou Vista Garden Club’s February meeting held at the Bayou Vista Community Center. Beth Erwin, Lou...
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