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Squirrel kills MC electricity
A roughly 15-minute outage this morning was the result of a curious squirrel navigating the City of Morgan City’s utility system. City Utilities Director Bill Cefalu said a squirrel infiltrated a t...
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I-49 plans may go back to the drawing board
PATTERSON — “Within our lifetimes, we’ll probably never see I-49 come through this area.” That was the news from state Department of Transportation and Development officials who were in town Tuesd...
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Ship to shore
Work on InterMoor’s bulkhead is moving right along. With sheet pile in place on the last few hundred feet of the slip’s west wall, focus now will be to strengthen and shore up the wall. Once the we...
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Burglaries reported in local area
There have been several burglaries during the nights last weekend along Oaklawn and Irish Bend, police report. Sheriff Mark Hebert said vehicle burglaries have been most common, and one camper shed...
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City debates funds for Harvest Moon
A request for support of the Harvest Moon Festival in Franklin resulted in a discussion Tuesday about whether the city can afford it. Councilman Chuck Autin moved to expand the council’s agenda to ...
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Postman recovering after dog attack
David Arboneaux is recovering, and expects to be back at work next week. Arboneaux, a postal employee in Franklin, was attacked by dogs while delivering mail on his route on Magnolia Street. It was...
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SMP school board approves electoral districts
The St. Mary Parish School Board decided Monday afternoon to approve the second draft of its redistricting plan, pending a public hearing. While most districts stayed relatively the same, the most ...
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Rankin to appear in new series
KEVIN RANKIN, a former Morgan City resident, will make an appearance tonight on the CBS season premiere of “Unforgettable” as Det. Roe Saunders, a junior member of the team. The show begins at 9 p....
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Bridge fix
Work is underway to replace a small bridge across a canal south of the Harold J. “Babe” Landry Landfill on Berwick South Road as well as the reconstruction of Berwick South Road from U.S. 90 south ...
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Dr. Gary Wiltz
Wiltz named chair of national board
Dr. Gary M. Wiltz, M.D., CEO of Teche Action Clinic in Franklin, has been elected Board Chair-Elect of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) at the 41st Annual Convention and...
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Accident cuts power in LSM, Assumption
A vehicle accident in which a truck struck one of Entergy Louisiana’s poles early this morning left nearly 2,500 customers from the Belle River/Stephensville area to Pierre Part without power. Char...
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$10,000 scholarship awarded
Rachel Carinhas, a 2011 graduate of Patterson High School, recently received a scholarship in the amount of $10,500 from the Horatio Alger Association. Carinhas is one of 50 high school graduates i...
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