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New Orleans-based Coast Guard unit returns NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans based U.S. Coast Guard anti-terrorism team is scheduled to return home today from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba after a six-month depl...
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Commodities to be distributed
St. Mary Community Action Agency and Food For Families Program will be distributing commodities Friday, according to Almetra J. Franklin, CEO. Distribution will be on a first- come, first-served ba...
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Wheelhouse -- A calendar of events for East St. Mary Parish
Fall Revival At New Zorah Baptist Church, 604 Julia St., Morgan City, 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 19 and 20. Evangelist the Rev. Ricardo Handy of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Plaquemine. Public inv...
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Parish council meets tonight
A full slate of meetings awaits St. Mary Parish Council members ahead of their regular meeting tonight. A budget/finance committee meeting of the whole council is slated at 5 p.m. followed by publi...
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Yokely theft arrests now 7
Three more juveniles were arrested in connection with the reported break-in and burglary of the Yokely Pumping Station. Three 13-year-olds, two males and a female, were charged Tuesday evening with...
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Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré discusses points from his book, “How Being Prepared Can Keep You and Your Family Safe” with students in LSU’s students.
Honoré says preparation can keep your family safe
By CATHERINE THRELKELD LSU Manship News Service BATON ROUGE, La. — He was the “John Wayne” of New Orleans, the “overnight hero” of Hurricane Katrina, and “exactly what the Gulf Coast needed,” to he...
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Offshore container port studied for St. Mary Parish
MORGAN CITY, La. -- The possibility of the construction of a large international container port in the outlying waterways of St. Mary Parish, which would take advantage of the expansion of the Pana...
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Tre’ Matthews of Berwick gets his flu shot from Dawn Vining, LPN, at the Pediatric Clinic of Morgan City Tuesday morning.
Doctor says now is the time for flu shot
MORGAN CITY, La. -- The flu vaccination has been successful so far in preventing the flu in St. Mary Parish, said Centers for Disease Control Dr. Robert Blereau of Morgan City. “In a good year the...
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Theriot wins football contest
Neal Theriot of Bayou Vista won first place and $40 in The Daily Review’s football contest. There was a tie for first that Theriot broke by picking the winner of the Jesuit High School, 31, and We...
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Wheelhouse -- A calendar of events for East St. Mary Parish
christmas Bazaar And Plate Lunch Fundraiser at Patterson United Methodist Church, 1204 Main St., Saturday, Nov. 17. Bazaar 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. with Christmas décor, homemade jelly and baked goods. Lun...
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Jindal releases SW La. project list
BATON ROUGE, La. — Gov. Bobby Jindal announced his support for construction and infrastructure projects in southwest Louisiana that his administration is recommending for funding at the upcoming me...
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Veterans honored -- Korean War veterans share their stories
MORGAN CITY, La. — It was three years of their lives, and that was more than 58 years ago, but those three years have stuck with them years later. Walter Chauvin, 81, and Ted Mire, 78, both of Cent...
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Chamber sets LABI conference, business social
The St. Mary Chamber of Commerce will host a Louisiana Association of Business and Industry 2012 Legislative Issues Conference on Tuesday, March 6, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Featured speakers will be LA...
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Local Scouts at Mountain Bayou Lake
Boy Scout Troop 1 from Franklin braved the cold weather last weekend and joined 13 other Boy Scout troops and Venture crews at Mountain Bayou Lake in St. Landry. for the Klondike Derby event. The b...
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Dredging method fails; water injection next
MORGAN CITY — The first agitation dredging efforts produced “no significant impacts” on the fluff in the Atchafalaya River Channel. Jonathan Hird of Moffatt & Nichol, a Baton Rouge-based engineeri...
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Port tenant expands footprint
D&L Salvage and Marine Services LLC signed a new lease with the Port of West Mary Tuesday to expand its existing business at the port. The 5-year lease with a 5-year renewal option on a 13,000 squa...
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MC Port may become a foreign trade zone
MORGAN CITY — The Port of Morgan City is beginning the process to become one of several ports with the designation of a foreign trade zone, allowing the import of materials by businesses without a...
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School system awards
Students of the Month of January in the St. Mary Parish school system were, top from left, Drake Leonard, a 12th grader at Morgan City High School; Ashton Landry, an eighth grader at Centerville Ju...
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With wings as eagles
The American bald eagle is a common visitor in St. Mary Parish and is celebrated annually during the Eagle Expo with a series of guided tours into the Atchafalaya Basin and a series of lectures on ...
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Students of the Year
St. Mary Parish Students of the Year for the 2011-2012 term are, from left, Drake Leonard, a 12th grader at Morgan City High School; Harleigh Price, an eighth grader at Morgan City Junior High Scho...
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Erik Bendl and his dog Nice have walked through 33 states rolling a 6-foot inflated globe to raise awareness of diabetes. Thursday they were in Patterson as they continued their trek across the Gulf Coast toward Texas. Their quests are accomplished in spurts, with the current one beginning in Seminole, Ala., Jan. 11. The globe is made of canvas with a waterbed inner tube. It frequently requires repairs as it encounters the elements on their travels. Follow Bendl's travels on his blog at www.worldguy.org or via his facebook site http://www.facebook.com/erikbendl. The most recent blog post is about Bendl’s trek through Patterson.
Walking with the world for diabetes awareness
Erik Bendl and Nice have the world on a string. They — a man and his dog — have walked through 33 states with their 6-foot in-flated globe to raise aware-ness of diabetes. Thursday, they were in P...
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Massive change proposed for school scoring
Accountability scoring for Louisiana schools may be changing next term. St. Mary Superintendent of Schools Dr. Donald Aguillard told the school board Thursday that Louisiana is writing a grant for ...
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Bald eagles have adapted to populated areas. Here, a bald eagle sits with a bulldozer in operation nearby. Fully mature eagles obtain and display the white head and adult tail feather features around their fifth year; life expectancy in the wild is 20 to 25 years. Bald eagles primarily eat fish, but they also eat carrion.
Bald eagle comeback - a case of coming to terms to coexist
With massive wings pushing against the air to slow its descent, the bald eagle dropped towards the concrete surface of Oceaneering International’s manufacturing yard in Morgan City. Surprised, yar...
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COA director pleads for help for local office
A plea was made Wednesday to send the word to the state that the St. Mary Council on Aging cannot survive without its continued support. “I need your voices,” agency Director Beverly Domengeaux tol...
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