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Community Concert Association announces next season’s lineup
Six outstanding concerts are in store for members of our 2013-14 Community Concert Association season, according to Floyd Cloutier, president. As a bonus, new subscribers will be admitted to the 4...
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Relay for Life event is Saturday
MORGAN CITY, La. — Preliminary events leading up to this year’s Relay for Life in East St. Mary Parish continue Saturday with the first challenge in the inaugural Guns and Hoses Battle for the Padd...
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From left, Calvin and Louella Guidry of Morgan City, and daughter, Debbie Breaux of Pierre Part, sing during the National Day of Prayer Special Service on Thursday at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium.
National Day of Prayer observed
MORGAN CITY — About 20 to 30 people gathered in the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium for a special service for National Day of Prayer to pray for those within the community and around the country i...
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Election is Saturday
Election polls across western St. Mary Parish will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday for a single referendum. Hospital Service District 1 is asking voters to approve the renewal of the 3.47 m...
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Sheriff warns of 2 phone scams
Sheriff Mark Hebert is warning area residents of a phone scam. The sheriff’s office received a complaint May 2 of telephone harassment. Upon investigation, it was determined that the harassing phon...
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Red Ribbon slogan, drawing contest winners announced
Winners have been announced in the St. Mary Red Ribbon Committee’s annual slogan and drawing contests. Dwaylen Spain, a junior at West St. Mary High School, was the winner of the slogan contest. Hi...
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Keisha Johnson Brown, formerly of Morgan City and now living in Mount Pleasant, Mich., is fighting her fourth battle with breast cancer. Her family — including Tri-City area residents brother, Johnnie Johnson of Amelia; mother, Mamie Johnson of Morgan City; and sister, Angela Young of Morgan City. From left, are Brown, her husband, Damon; and daughter, Angel.
Cancer survivor inspires fundraising walk
MORGAN CITY, La. -- It is inconceivable to most people to be diagnosed with breast cancer once. Four times is a nightmare. But that is precisely what Keisha Johnson Brown, formerly of Morgan City a...
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Morgan City Main Street District business owners are eligible to apply for a state-funded Redevelopment Incentive Grant. Sonja Mingo is seated outside Flomingo’s Café, which he owns, in Morgan City.
Grants offered to help business owners spruce up their buildings
MORGAN CITY, La. — Business owners in the Main Street District of Morgan City whose building meets state criteria may apply for state-funded 2013-14 Redevelopment Incentive Grants, according to a n...
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St. Mary Parish inmate dies (updated)
FRANKLIN, La. -- A 41-year-old Baldwin man who was arrested Friday and became ill Saturday in the St. Mary Parish Law Enforcement Center died Tuesday, according to St. Mary Parish Sheriff Mark Hebe...
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April cleanup
A large gathering of parishioners from Fellowship of the Crossing Place Church joined other volunteers on April 13 for the monthly “Clean-Up Franklin Day.” Drinking water for the volunteers was don...
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Prayer services planned Thursday
The National Day of Prayer Special Service in Morgan City has been moved to the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium’s West Concourse due to the chance of rain Thursday. The event will be held from 12:...
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Patterson council OKs house demolition
PATTERSON, La. — The city council set in motion Tuesday night the process for demolition of a fire-damaged and uninhabited residence at 518 Leo Drive in Patterson. City attorney Russel Cremaldi tol...
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A scorched stove stands in the charred rubble of a house left by an early morning fire today that claimed the lives of two Patterson residents at the corner of Martin Luther King Avenue and Hickory Street in Patterson.
Patterson house fire kills retired teacher, blind man
By JEAN L. KAESS and ZACHARY FITZGERALD Staff Reporters PATTERSON — A retired St. Mary Parish educator perished along with another person in an early morning fire that destroyed both her home and a...
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Bayou Teche nominated to scenic rivers; hearing slated
A public hearing will be held Friday in Baldwin to receive comment on the nomination of Bayou Teche into the state’s Natural and Historic Scenic Rivers program. The Secretary of the Department of W...
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Sen. Bret Allain
I-49 Coalition seeks paying members
PATTERSON, La. — The I-49 South Coalition took a first step toward recruiting paying members for the push to complete I-49 South from Lafayette to New Orleans. State Sen. Bret Allain, R-Franklin, h...
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The ninth annual Black Achievement Award Banquet was held Saturday at the Broussard-Harris Recreation Center in Franklin. Mistress of ceremonies for the event was Sandra Burrell. The 2013 Honorees pictured from left above are Beverly Epps, Pearl Rack, Albert and Savannah Barabin, Dianne Alexander, Lucy Watson, Edgar Barrilleaux, Connie Robinson standing for honoree Ethel Robinson, Joni Brown standing for honoree Johnny Brown Jr., Izola Cooper, Karen Salone standing for honoree Eloise Salone and Ricky Armelin. Honorees not pictured are Beulah Gibson, Marguerit Bell, Charles Middleton and Annie Boyd.
Honorees
The ninth annual Black Achievement Award Banquet was held Saturday at the Broussard-Harris Recreation Center in Franklin. Mistress of ceremonies for the event was Sandra Burrell. The 2013 Honorees ...
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St. Mary Parish Superintendent of Schools Donald Aguillard
Schools face relentless funding cuts
Lafayette school officials have asked area legislators to push for a funding increase for public education and for relief from some unfunded state mandates to help the district overcome a $12 milli...
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Franklin council to consider pay raises
Franklin City Council members meet Tuesday in regular session for March. Guests include Brenda Viator with the Mom2Mom organization, David Bourdier and the Cypress Sawmill Festival queens and Glenn...
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Chief Warrant Officer Bryan J. Henderson, 27, of Franklin, La.
Franklin Parish man among soldiers killed in helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan (updated)
The Defense Department has released the names of the five U.S. service members who were killed when a helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan on Monday, according to a cnn.com report. A soldier ...
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Over-filled trash cans on Veterans Boulevard in Patterson could attract black bears.
Bear-proof trash cans are unique to St. Mary Parish in Louisiana
St. Mary Parish is the only place in the state that deploys bear-proof trash cans. “This is the only place in the state of Louisiana that we have bear-proof cans. St. Mary Parish can step up to the...
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Baldwin Mayor Wayne Breaux, left, presented the keys to the city Thursday to legal counsel Vincent Borne for his decade of service to the board of alderman. Borne has been sworn in as a judge for 16th Judicial District Court and resigned his position as Baldwin’s legal adviser in February. The board Thursday appointed town resident and Franklin attorney Joseph Tabb as its new legal counsel.
Baldwin eyes derelict vehicle options
Lincoln Street in Baldwin is in severe need of repairs and resurfacing would be even better. A letter from residents of the street was presented Thursday to the Baldwin Board of Alderman during its...
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Holy Cross Elementary School students in Katie Rock’s fifth-grade class awaited the announcement and presentation of the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis. Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio who was elected pope, is the first pontiff from the Americas. Students cheered his arrival on the Vatican balcony.
Francis impresses religious here
Reaction by Catholics across the state, as well as locally, to newly appointed Pope Francis has been positive. Monsignor J. Douglas Courville, pastor of St. Stephen Catholic Church in Berwick, said...
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Parish trying to keep West Gate at Wax Lake open
Parish administrators are attempting to convince the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to continue to fund operation of the west floodgate of the Wax Lake Outlet at Bayou Teche. Wednesday, members of th...
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Charles Goodson, PetroQuest
Speaker: Natural gas is future of energy industry
MORGAN CITY, La. — North America could be energy independent by the end of the decade if the continent uses more natural gas in areas such as transportation, said Charles Goodson, chairman, CEO and...
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