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School board will meet Thursday
A special meeting of the St. Mary Parish School Board will be held Thursday to receive the fourth redistricting plan from the board’s demographer. A public hearing is slated to be scheduled to rece...
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Adopt-A-Family
St. Mary/Vermillion Community Action Agency held its annual Adopt-A-Family program on Wednesday. With the donations received from local sponsors, CAA was able to adopt 61 children and 31 families t...
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Mold requires complete renovation of city hall
As of noon today, Patterson City Hall was shuttered and declared a “sick” building. Built in 2002 at a cost of around $1.77 million, the city hall/jail complex is less than 10 years old but has a s...
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Teachers publish book on education comedy and wisdom
Teachers inspire, perspire, aspire and eventually retire. That’s when the fun really begins. At least, that’s when it began for Diane T. Martin and Linda V. Thomas, two longtime Morgan City High S...
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Read me a story
The Morgan City Rotary Club is donating 500 books to eight local elementary schools. Each first-grade student will receive one of 13 different titles. Berwick Elementary first-graders received thei...
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Atchafalaya river levels on the rise
By GEOFFREY STOUTE MORGAN CITY — The Atchafalaya River has topped the 4-foot mark, which is pegged as flood stage, but well below the 6 foot levels that start causing locals on the unprotected side...
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Lighting contest
Members of the Franklin Garden Club hosted a reception for judges of the annual Christmas Lighting and Decorating contest prior to setting out to view the displays. Judges were Trudy Bourgeois, Bet...
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Last meeting of PC term set Wednesday
A brief agenda awaits the St. Mary Parish Council when it meets in its final session of 2011 Wednesday. Items of business to be considered include a proposed ordinance amending the 2011 fiscal year...
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Annual Food Drive is Wednesday
The annual FoodNet Food for Families Drive is Wednesday with three drop-off points in western St. Mary Parish. All donations collected locally will go the Emergency Aid Center in Franklin, a United...
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Students and volunteers look through cards Friday at the home of Berwick resident Iris Berry. For approximately five years, Berry has been asking children to make Christmas cards and sending these to Children’s Hospital in New Orleans. This year, she has expanded the offering to hospitals in Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, Shreveport, Lafayette and Oklahoma City. She said she hopes to continue to expand the giving project in future years.
Cards and trees fill holidays at Berry home
BERWICK — One Berwick woman’s writings coupled with the efforts of local volunteers and youngsters will make Christmas a little brighter this year for children as far away as Oklahoma. Iris Berry,...
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Berwick Council will meet Tuesday
The Berwick Town Council will meet Tuesday to consider an ordinance granting a servitude to the west of Renwick and approving liquor licenses for 2012. The ordinance is a housekeeping law for the s...
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Patterson offices to move from mold
The Patterson City Hall and Police Department complex has mold and is being forced to move while remediation takes place. Effective 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, both the city hall and the police department ...
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