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An alligator caught earlier in this year at Johnny’s Seafood and Bait Shop in Berwick.
Alligator season winds down
By JAMES A. ROBICHAUX jrobichaux@daily-review.com MORGAN CITY, La. -- Although Hurricane Isaac affected this year’s alligator season, a harvest of about 35,000 gators is expected for the season in ...
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Barbier wins weekly football contest
Staff Report MORGAN CITY, La. -- Holly Barbier of Morgan City won the top prize of $40 in The Daily Review football contest. Barbier only missed four games out of 17 in the contest. There was an ...
Sep 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Benefit for Boudreaux
Residents turned out at City Recreation Center Saturday to help the Franklin Fire Department raise medical expense funds for one of its own, Louis Boudreaux, who is recovering from leg amputation c...
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Morgan City finance panel OKs equipment purchases
By JAMES A. ROBICHAUX jrobichaux@daily-review.com MORGAN CITY — The purchase of a new all-steer loader with a road planer and a dump trailer for both the Sanitation and Public Works Departments was...
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Ben Protich, left, and Drew Angeron, fifth-graders at Bayou Vista Elementary, use teamwork in planting cabbage Thursday afternoon for the school’s new Teaching Garden.
Teaching Garden at Bayou Vista
BAYOU VISTA, La. -- A ceremony was held Thursday at Bayou Vista Elementary for the school’s “Teaching Garden” that the American Heart Association sponsored. According to an AHA news release, “the ...
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Morgan City car show to help fund facilty for disabled in Franklin
By JAMES A. ROBICHAUX jrobichaux@daily-review.com MORGAN CITY, La. — An automotive-themed fundraising event to be held Saturday in Morgan City is geared to accelerate the hopes of a Franklin family...
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SLECA power outages planned
By JEAN L. KAESS jkaess@daily-review.com AMELIA, La. -- South Louisiana Electric Cooperative Association will have three planned outages — affecting customers from Amelia to Stephensville — due to ...
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FEMA centers to close on Sundays
Staff Report MORGAN CITY, La. -- Beginning Sunday, the FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers operating in 18 Louisiana parishes will be closed every Sunday. This includes the DRC at the Morgan City Munici...
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Boudreaux benefit set
A benefit to assist Louis Boudreaux with medical expenses will be held by the the Franklin Fire Department Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Franklin Recreation Center. It will feature live e...
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TAC hosting voter registration drive
Teche Action Clinic will host a voter registration drive Tuesday as part of “National Voter Registration Day.” The event is part of a national campaign to boost voter registration and civic engagem...
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Wheelhouse -- A calendar of events for East St. Mary Parish
Care Wash Sponsored by Spectacular X-Plosive Steppaz 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 22 at Shell Station, 1028 La. 182, Morgan City. Weather permitting. For info call Mildred Swan at 985-312-3260. Patterso...
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Fontenot announces for Morgan City Council District 4
EDITOR”S NOTE: The following announcement has been authorized for release by the candidate’s campaign. Publication is provided as a public service and implies no endorsement by The Daily Review or ...
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Community group sets first Hoodstock event
Hoodstock, a small grassroots organization seeking to provoke social action and cultural awareness in lower income neighborhoods, will hold the first of what it hopes becomes an annual event, Satur...
Sep 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Festival shakes off weather detractors
MORGAN CITY — A keen eye on the weather, an attentive ear to local emergency officials, and squeegees and mulch in hand and on the ground. That’s how Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival offici...
Sep 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Golf course to end year up to $175K in hole
Atchafalaya Golf Course will end its fiscal year this month with a $150,000 to $175,000 deficit that will be covered by parish government. Meeting in regular session Wednesday, members of the St. M...
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City gets feasibility study on roadwork
MORGAN CITY — Just under $4 million is the estimated total cost for repair work on streets within the city, according to an economic feasibility study the City Council commissioned for its Novembe...
Sep 14, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dinner After Hours at Belleview
Chamber of Commerce members took advantage of a Dinner After Hours Tuesday to get to know other business leaders in the parish. Hosted by Belleview Golf and Country Club owners Ty Burdette, Bobby M...
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Agitation field trials have yet to begin
MORGAN CITY — Agitation dredging field trials in the Atchafalaya Bar and Bay Channel were not included in an existing contract that began in August but may be included on a contract for the Atchaf...
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Found in attic
While exploring his aunt’s attic in Franklin, Christian Henry found a stack of loose documents, photos and some possible family history. An Oct. 16, 1917 copy of the New Orleans Daily States was f...
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SMP superintendent is Lafayette candidate
St. Mary School Superintendent Dr. Donald Aguillard is one of 26 candidates for the position of Lafayette Parish Superintendent. Aguillard’s name has been passed among Lafayette Parish school admi...
Sep 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Swamp breakdown in Franklin
Troy Landry and his cast and film crew from the History Channel’s Swamp People made an unexpected stop in Franklin Friday afternoon due to a boat trailer breakdown in front of Burger King on Main S...
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Student count up, schools sales tax down
Preliminary reports indicate student enrollment is up in St. Mary Parish. That means more state money from the Minimum Foundation Program if the numbers hold. Unfortunately, it may not be enough to...
Sep 09, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Candidate slate set for Oct. 22 election
State Rep. Sam Jones (D-Franklin) enters his second term in the legislature unopposed at the close of qualifying Thursday. “I am deeply honored by the decision of the people of the 50th District of...
Sep 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Altar of Knowledge
South Central Louisiana Technical College, Young Memorial Campus will have a new 25,000 square-foot addition by mid-June 2012. The proposed addition will tie into the existing facility and house th...
Sep 08, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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