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Parish council meets Wednesday
The St. Mary Parish Council will meet in regular session Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the courthouse in Franklin. Items on the agenda include: —Resolutions approving the call of tax renewal elections by ...
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Daily Review Louisiana Press Association Better Newspaper Competition winners, from left, included Harlan Kirgan, Jean L. Kaess, Courtney Darce and Geoff Stoute. The awards were presented Saturday at the association’s annual convention held in Baton Rouge. The Daily Review/Eddie Darce Sr.
Daily Review takes honors in state competition
Numerous members of The Daily Review’s editorial staff placed in the 2012 Better Newspaper Competition during the 133rd Annual Louisiana Press Association Convention held in Baton Rouge Saturday. F...
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Interim LSU System President and Chancellor William Jenkins, left, and B.A. “Red” Adams, advisory board chairman for the Atchafalaya Chapter of the API at the 57th Annual API Atchafalaya Chapter Scholarship Banquet Thursday at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City.
LSU chief: Higher Ed faces serious budget issues
MORGAN CITY, La. — Higher education in Louisiana is continuing to face serious budgetary challenges, said William Jenkins, interim LSU system president and chancellor. Funding for higher education ...
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Fourth Bayou Teche Boat Show
The Bayou Teche Wooden Boat Show celebrated its fourth event this weekend and organizers welcomed 36 classic and modern wooden vessels to Parc sur la Teche. The show’s participants journeyed from a...
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St. Mary Parish tourism, seafood industry were affected by spill
By PRESTON GILL pgill@daily-review.com MORGAN CITY — While the oil Deepwater Horizon oil spill may not have polluted St. Mary Parish shores and wetlands, the spill may have contaminated the minds ...
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Oil slick largely spared St. Mary Parish
MORGAN CITY, La. -- Three years after the nation’s largest crude oil spill on April 20, 2010, those heading the local emergency response say St. Mary Parish escaped major environmental repercussion...
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Orange-colored oil slicks can be seen in the water where recovery operations were taking place at the Deepwater Horizon rig site in the Gulf of Mexico in May 2010. The rig explosion on April 20, 2010, killed 11 workers and unleashed an estimated 200 million gallons of crude oil.
Cleanup, study carries on 3 years after spill -- Oil fouled more than 1,100 miles of beaches, marsh on Gulf Coast
BAY JIMMY — At first glance, the marshy, muddy coastline of Bay Jimmy in southeast Louisiana appears healthy three years after the nation’s worst offshore oil spill. Brown pelicans and seagulls cru...
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From left, Morgan City High School senior Andrew Albritton, recipient of a $12,000 API scholarship; Berwick High School senior Jenah Richard, recipient of a $12,000 API scholarship; Berwick High School senior Patrick Macklin, recipient of the $4,000 SMIG Scholarship; Morgan City High School senior Joshua Glatter, recipient of a $4,000 API scholarship; Central Catholic High School senior Zachary Aucoin, recipient of a $4,000 API scholarship; and Central Catholic High School senior Caroline Byrne, recipient of the $6,000 Ronnie Roussel Scholarship.
Atchafalaya Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute holds 57th Annual Scholarship Banquet
MORGAN CITY, La. — Six local high school seniors received $42,000 in college scholarship money Thursday night at the Atchafalaya Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute’s 57th Annual Scholarshi...
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HMS notches 6-2 victory
NEW IBERIA _ Hanson Memorial collected three runs in the top half of the fifth inning and made it hold up for a 6-2 win Thursday over Highland Baptist in non-district action. Highland took a 1-0 le...
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Classic Thompson boat, Mike Falgout, River Ridge, La.
Classic Craft Show: Fourth Bayou Teche Wooden Boat Show brings classic vessels
This weekend the Bayou Teche Wooden Boat Show will kick off its fourth annual event. And this year’s show promises to be bigger and better than ever, organizers Roger Stouff and Gary Blum say. Thou...
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Queen Nikki Pennison
The Bayou Teche Black Bear Festival Miss Queen 2013 is Nikki Pennison. She is the 18 year-old-daughter of Rene and Tammy Pennison of Morgan City. She is a 2012 graduate of Morgan City High School a...
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St. Mary Parish deputy arrested, fired; accused of having role in jail contraband (updated with 2nd arrest)
A St. Mary Parish sheriff’s deputy has been arrested and fired for his involvement in bringing contraband into the Centerville parish jail, Sheriff Mark Hebert said in a news release. A Patterson m...
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Final Junior Fair and Livestock Show winners
The final three awards from the St. Mary Parish Junior Fair and Livestock show were, from top center, Ashley Champagne, champion AOB in market division swine. At middle, center, Nicholas Polito wit...
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The East St. Mary Veterans Funeral Squad was honored Sunday at the annual Veterans Appreciation Day at American Legion Post 242 in Patterson. From left are D.J. Fangue, Jimmy Richard Sr., Joseph Boersma, Joe Vidos, James Rink Jr., Don Campos, Jesse LaRive, Tena Stratton, Rosemary Lodrigue, Rueben Trevino, Grace Fangue, Mary Aucoin, Hilliard Smith, Jesse Reynaud Jr., Calvin Alfred, Wilton Aucoin and William “Ken” Macey.
East St. Mary Parish Funeral Squad honored at Veterans Appreciation Day in Patterson
PATTERSON, la. — The 20-member East St. Mary Veterans Funeral Squad was honored Sunday at the 11th annual Veterans Appreciation Day at American Legion Post 242 in Patterson. About 100 people attend...
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St. Mary Parish's Most Wanted for February 2013.
St. Mary Parish’s Most Wanted
The two new additions to February’s most wanted include a man wanted by the sheriff’s department on warrants dating back to 2003 and a man wanted on several drug warrants including possession of a ...
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Decorations, utility bills topics in city budget meet
Franklin city council members held the first of two budget workshops Thursday. Finance Director Ed Hay presented the council with year-to-date spending, tentative amended numbers and tentative numb...
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Louisiana Lottery Powerball winner Amy Sturges poses with husband Warren after winning $2 million in the Feb. 16 Powerball drawing.
Morgan City woman claims $2 million Powerball prize
BATON ROUGE, La. - After winning $2 million in the Feb. 16 Powerball drawing, Amy Sturges of Morgan City stared in awe at her Louisiana Lottery prize check and turned to show it to her husband. War...
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The Louisiana Wildlife Federation has chosen Adriana Drusini, far left, and Jennifer Ducote, center, both LSU AgCenter 4-H agents in St. Mary Parish, along with Catherine Siracusa, St. Mary Parish bear conflict officer, for the Governor’s Conservation Award for their Black Bear Awareness Program. They will receive the award on Feb. 23 at the LWF convention in Baton Rouge.
Local 4-H, bear officer to receive Conservation Award
A 4-H project aimed at helping St. Mary Parish residents avoid troublesome encounters with black bears is being honored with an award from the Louisiana Wildlife Federation. Adriana Drusini and Je...
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City finalizes acquisition of Crowell school
Mayor Raymond Harris and St. Mary Parish School Board member Murphy Pontiff signed off on an agreement Tuesday finalizing the sale of E.A. Crowell Elementary to the City of Franklin. “I attended cl...
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E.A. Crowell Elementary purchase
Purchase of E.A. Crowell Elementary was finalized Friday with the signing of an agreement between the City of Franklin and the St. Mary Parish School Board. The city has leased the building for use...
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Roger Jenkins, chief operating officer of Murphy Oil based in Houston, speaks Tuesday at a meeting of the Atchafalaya Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City.
Gulf of Mexico drilling is rebounding
MORGAN CITY, La. — Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is making its way back in the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill amidst the stringent drilling standards imposed after the disaster,...
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Assumption Parish residents seek sinkhole buyouts
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Frustrated Assumption Parish residents displaced by a massive sinkhole that has swallowed 9 acres of land near their homes asked lawmakers Tuesday to assist them in getting ...
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Man arrested for aggravated assault, battery in Bayou Vista
BAYOU VISTA, La. -- A 25-year-old Bayou Vista man was arrested by St. Mary Parish deputies after he allegedly chased a group of people with a gun and dragged and repeatedly struck a female victim, ...
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Real-time current, tide instruments to help prevent disasters
MORGAN CITY, La. — Plans are in the works to install three more instruments in the Atchafalaya Bar Channel underneath the agitation dredging work being done that will give real time information to ...
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