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Scott moves ahead with growth plan
SCOTT, La. (AP) — Scott officials are expected to begin developing regulations this year to implement a long-term plan for growth that emerged from a series of community forums in 2011. The Scott 2...
Feb 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Murphy Oil CEO to speak at API meeting
MORGAN CITY, La. -- The Atchafalaya Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute will hold a dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City. The speaker will be Roger Jenk...
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Food incubator grows kitchen hobbies into businesses
NORCO (AP) — The smell of herbs and spices filled the large industrial kitchen space as Bonnie Barberot stirred ingredients in a steaming metal cauldron. She was at the Edible Enterprises kitchen e...
Feb 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jena Choctaws to open new casino DRY PRONG (AP) — A new casino joins Louisiana’s market today when the Jena Choctaw Pines Casino opens in central Louisiana. The 46,000-square-foot casino’s doors w...
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fred’s Super Dollar raising money for children’s hospitals
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shoppers at fred’s Super Dollar have an opportunity to support the health care of children in their area by purchasing special $1 paper Miracle Balloons that will benefit Children’...
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Paul Judice
Judice promoted at Mid-South Bank
Lafayette-based MidSouth Bank recently announced that Paul Judice, regional president of the bank’s East Louisiana Region, also will assume the same leadership role in its Bayou Region. That geogra...
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Genesis Energy plans expansion BATON ROUGE — Genesis Energy is expanding its presence in the Baton Rouge area, with plans to build a crude oil pipeline that will connect to ExxonMobil’s refinery. ...
Feb 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dell to go private in $24.4B deal led by founder
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal budget deficit will drop below $1 trillion for the first time in President Barack Obama’s tenure in office, a new report said Tuesday. The Congressional Budget Office ...
Feb 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Murkowski announces national energy proposal
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A national energy plan should seek to lower harmful greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate warming but not at the expense of people already paying high costs to keep t...
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Groups oppose air guns offshore in Atlantic
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Conservation groups Tuesday urged the federal government not to permit the use of air guns if energy companies are allowed to search for oil and natural gas off the nation’s...
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Industrial Group meeting Monday
The St. Mary Industrial Group will have its monthly meeting at noon Monday at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City. The speaker, Hilary Thibodeaux, executive director of the St. Mary Parish Levee Dist...
Feb 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Cajun Coast Visitors and Convention Bureau was honored at the Lt. Governor’s Tourism Summit in Lake Charles. Front, from left, are Katie Tamporello, bureau assistant; Jay Dardenne, lieutenant governor of Louisiana; Carrie Stansbury, bureau executive director; and Regina Wiese Wheeler, Visitor Center supervisor. Back, from left, are Al Kuhlman, tourism board member; Nelson Cortez,tourism treasurer; and Carmen Papania, bureau office manager.
St. Mary Parish Tourist Commission Cajun Coast Visitors and Convention Bureau wins state award
Staff Report The St. Mary Parish Tourist Commission was awarded the “Outstanding Convention Visitors Bureau of the Year” for 2011-2012 for budgets $250,000 to $750,000 Thursday at the Lt. Governor’...
Jan 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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