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Work is continuing on the 1,600 square-foot Cajun Coast Visitors and Convention Bureau’s Welcome and Interpretive Center in Morgan City. The facility, on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at U.S...
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Congressman tours rig, views training upgrades
While in Morgan City, Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. dropped by the International Petroleum Museum and Exposition to see first-hand the only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard a...
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Berwick Garden Club sets lighting contest
The Berwick Garden Club’s annual Christmas lighting contest will be judged Dec. 5 and 6. Mobile homes will be judged Sunday beginning at 6 p.m. Monday is reserved for houses, also beginning at 6 p....
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District 1 Christmas banquet set Saturday
Residents of St. Mary Parish District 1 are hosting the fifth annual community Christmas banquet entitled “Empowerment Begins at Home.” The event will take place on Saturday at 6 p.m. at the West S...
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MCPD seeks suspect in Sunday shooting
An altercation led to a shooting in the 200 block of Second Street in Morgan City Sunday. Police were called around 3:38 p.m. after the 54-year-old man was shot in the arm and received a laceration...
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Porn investigation ongoing
Further details have emerged on the Wednesday arrest of a Patterson man on child pornography charges. Early last week, state police received information that Michael Stedman, 27, of Watson Lane was...
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One killed, several injured in wrecks
A Theodore, Ala., man succumbed early Thursday morning after his vehicle struck another head on and then caught on fire. Morgan City Police, who are withholding the name of the 54-year-old man beca...
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Christmas seasonings
A large crowd gathered Sunday evening to watch Dominick Sheldon, left, and Jayden Watson, both 4, officially turn on the Christmas lights on an outdoor tree at Patterson City Hall. Children, such a...
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Light up the night
The Christmas season was ushered in this year with the annual lighting ceremonies in both the City of Morgan City and the Town of Berwick on Thursday evening. Beth Barbier, 8, turned on the ceremon...
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Cajun Mantles are fireplace mantles created from local cypress trees by Brian Tabor of Bayou L'Ourse and Jim Pierce Jr. of Patterson. The process takes more than a year to complete, but creates a rustic mantle that will last a lifetime indoors. Each is unique and was inspired by a Tennessee cabin’s fireplace mantle.
Warm-weather wood evokes winter coziness
Imagine relaxing in front of a roaring fireplace in a Tennessee cabin. The wind rushes outside as it piles snow against the window pane. The frozen air is obliterated as a family enjoys each other...
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That's just grateful
Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast in 1621 that today is acknowledged as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations. For more than two centuries, days of thanks...
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Tip line reveals many methods for ruining turkey
If you’ve ever cooked Thanksgiving dinner, then you might well remember the pressure of your first time cooking a turkey for a table full of guests. You know how concerned you were that things mig...
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