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Bourgeois selected to head state medical examiners
The Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners recently elected a longtime Morgan City family physician as its new president. Melvin G. Bourgeois was elected to a two-year term as president during ...
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Bank CSR enters guilty plea
A former customer service representative for Teche Federal Bank in New Iberia pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of embezzling bank funds, according to United States Attorney Stephanie A. F...
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City council will meet in first session of 2012
Franklin City Council members meet tonight in their first regular session of 2012. Guests include Judith Allain, chairman of Techeland Arts Council, and Barbara Watts, CPA, of Kolder, Champagne, Sl...
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Corps of Engineers preparing for flood season
VICKSBURG, Miss — After the monumental flood of 2011, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mississippi Valley Division carefully inspected and completed damage assessments reports for all levees, chan...
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Tests required for some prospective public school students
Nonpublic and home school students in grades four and eight who may be planning to attend public school must register to take the LEAP test. In order to enroll in fifth or ninth grade, a student mu...
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Butcher of Brashear
Friday morning a giant statue of a butcher was placed on top of Cannata’s Supermarket in Morgan City. Hans Geist of Houma designed the statue and also did all of the other artwork at this store as ...
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Closings, events set for King holiday
All municipal, parish and state offices will be closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Harold J. “Babe” Landry Landfill in Berwick will close at noon on Monday. Morgan City’...
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Area legislators receive committee assignments
State legislators have been assigned to committees for the four-year term, and St. Mary’s legislators picked up some plum assignments. Bret Allain, a sugarcane farmer just elected to his first term...
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Flood protection plans in Baldwin in review phase
Environmental reviews of proposed flood control measures below Baldwin are in the works. Mayor Wayne Breaux told the board of aldermen Tuesday that those reviews will be submitted to various state ...
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MLK Day events set in Franklin area
Local residents will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday in Baldwin and Franklin. The Baldwin Martin Luther King Committee will assemble for a parade at 9 a.m. at Special Providence Bapti...
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Berwick approves land division for businesses
BERWICK — The Berwick Town Council approved the Berwick Planning Commission’s recommendations for a minor subdivision in which plans are to split a 10-acre tract of land in half and called for a p...
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Takedown
Demolition began Wednesday afternoon in the 6900 block on Business U.S. 90 in Morgan City. The structure is owned by members of the Resignola family and was initially constructed around 1955. Renov...
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