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St. Mary Parish, Morgan City voter numbers up slightly
MORGAN CITY, La. -- There are 34,127 voters registered for the Nov. 6 election in St. Mary Parish with 8,044 voters registered in Morgan City, according to numbers from the St. Mary Parish Registra...
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FEMA Disaster Recovery Center here closes Saturday
BATON ROUGE, La. — Time is running out to make claims from Hurricane Isaac at a State/FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in Stephensville. The center is scheduled to close at 6 p.m. Saturday. The center...
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Halloween Carnival hosted by J.S. Aucoin Elementary, 739 Julia St., Amelia, 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26. Features fun, food and raffle. Public welcomed. Children’s play Children’s Department of Ch...
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Services set for J. Earl Veeder II, local businessman, VA counselor
Memorial services will be held Friday for Joseph Earl Veeder II, a native of Charenton, a former longtime resident of Franklin and a current resident of Charenton for the past six years. He passed...
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Adopt-A-School
An Adopt-A-School program was held at J.A. Hernandez Elementary School Thursday. The Adopt-A-School program is sponsored by Title I of the St. Mary Parish School Board and recognizes businesses tha...
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Business After Hours to launch Harvest Moon Festival in Franklin
FRANKLIN, La. — St. Mary Chamber, Comfort Inn plan Business After Hours kick-off party for Havest Moon Festival A kick-off party for the Harvest Moon Festival is planned at 6 p.m. Thursday at the C...
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St. Mary Parish School Performance Scores
School Performance Scores for 2012 released Monday reveal St. Mary Parish has one A school whose score falls into a range of 120 to 200, nine B schools of a 105 to 119.9 SPS range, nine C schools r...
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St. Mary Parish school district earns
CENTERVILLE, La. — The St. Mary Parish school district received a B for the 2011-2012 school year, while several of the 23 individual schools posted double-digit gains. St. Mary now ranks 26th amo...
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Housing Authority for City of Morgan City monthly board meeting noon, Thursday, Oct. 25. Election of officers follows during annual meeting. Barbecue dinners Sold by Pilgrim Grove Baptist Church, ...
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Guidry wins football contest
MORGAN CITY, La. -- Regina Guidry of Patterson won first-place and $40 in The Daily Review’s Football Contest. Second-place and $20 went to Ryan Duplantis of Morgan City. Guidry missed one game a...
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Early voting for Nov. 6 election begins
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Early voting is starting in Louisiana for the Nov. 6 election, which includes the presidential race, six congressional races, constitutional amendments, judgeships and loca...
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‘Business After Hours’ kicks off Harvest Moon
A St. Mary Parish Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours is set Thursday to kick off the Franklin Harvest Moon Festival. The chamber event is at 6 p.m. at the Comfort Inn in Franklin. The festiva...
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School board remap headed for hearing
CENTERVILLE — The St. Mary Parish School Board reviewed and tentatively accepted a fourth redistricting plan Thursday. This version of the plan, according to demographer Mike Heffner, melds the be...
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MADD "Top Cops"
St. Mary Parish Mothers Against Drunk Driving held its “Light of Hope” ceremony at the Teche Theater in Franklin Thursday. “Top Cop” awards were handed out to Louisiana State Police troopers with t...
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Former rec liaison pleads to $76K theft
Former Town of Berwick recreation liaison Rhonda Burtner pleaded guilty Dec. 8 to the theft of just over $76,000 from sports leagues in Berwick. The St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Office received a comp...
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Plaques of appreciation were presented to three out-going St. Mary Parish council members Wednesday during their final meeting. From left are President Paul Naquin who is returning for his second term; Gary Duhon of Morgan City who has served the past two terms as an at-large representative and lost his bid in October for parish president; Craig Mathews, the District 1 representative unseated after one term; Chuck Walters who has served two terms each as Amelia single-member and at-large representative who did not seek reelection; and at-large Councilman Steve Bierhorst of Patterson who is currently serving as the council chairman.
Three council members make final meeting
The St. Mary Parish Council said farewell to three of its members Wednesday in the final meeting of the current council. The new term begins on Jan. 9 when the new council will take the oath of off...
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Correction
The story that was included about a social to welcome Dr. Darrel Solet, the newest doctor at the Cardiovascular Institute of the South's Morgan City clinic, will be held Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at th...
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Stone CEO lays out company's strategy
MORGAN CITY — Planning ahead — as much as three years from now — is part of Lafayette-based Stone Energy Corp.’s business strategy. The company’s President and CEO, David H. Welch, told the Atchaf...
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Local charities got a big boost Tuesday with donations to two Franklin agencies by David and Dale Hartford (manager of Danny’s Fried Chicken) of Data Management Systems Inc. of Patterson. The Hartfords, at left above, donated loads of toys to Chez Hope and 20 cases of food to the Emergency Aid Center. With them above are Chez Hope staff Vanetta Thomas, Cynthia Segura, Ida Borel and Rebecca Rodriguez. They are shown below with Patti Ibert, director of the Emergency Aid Center, a united Way for south Louisiana agency. The center’s annual food drive is ongoing today until 7 p.m. Donations may be dropped of at the Church of Assumption church hall in Franklin, the Baldwin Fire Department or Calvary Bible Church in Centerville.
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Dredging method appears ineffective
MORGAN CITY — Although the results still are very preliminary, it appears the first method of agitation dredging, in which a beam was dragged through fluff in the Atchafalaya River’s Bar Channel, ...
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Christmas sharing
More than 100 senior residents gathered Saturday at the KC home in Centerville for the annual dinner held for the Centerville and Verdunville communities. Organized by Mark Bogan, the event was spo...
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Stone CEO Welch to address API
The president and CEO of Stone Energy Corp. will discuss exploration and production during the Atchafalaya Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute’s monthly meeting Tuesday. David H. Welch will...
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Participants in the St. Mary Parish Chamber of Commerce Leadership St. Mary Program were, from back left, Edward Smith, Bobbie Jo Scully, Martin Vasquez, Robert Sampey II, Deborah Price, Richard LeGrier III, Jason Bailey, Chuck Freeman, Erin Sauce, Karla Byron, Carl Butler, and Butch Frazier III; seated from left, Kristy Toups Grogan, Nakisha Singleton, Frank Fink, Michael Tamporello, Jennifer Wise, Donna Meyer and JaWand Edwards.
Chamber leadership program kicks off
The St. Mary Parish Chamber of Commerce recently began its new Leadership St. Mary Program, with the inaugural class attending their first annual retreat at Lumen Christi in October and their secon...
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School finance audit OK; revenues rise
CENTERVILLE — The St. Mary Parish School Board received an unqualified opinion on its audit for fiscal year 2011 — the highest designation that can be received. Barbara Watts of Darnall, Sikes, Ga...
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