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Canal wall failures behind Cypress Gardens and Marquis Manor subdivisions are the result of erosion at the bottom of the canal that then cause the walls to fail. Engineers are working on a plan to repair the canal, something that must be done at various times throughout the city because of south Louisiana’s poor soil, said George Glaubrecht, engineer with Domingue, Szabo and Associates in Lafayette.
Drainage canal banks crumbling
MORGAN CITY, La. — Land washed out at drainage canals in two Morgan City locations may be unsightly but it’s not dangerous, according to officials familiar with the project. George Glaubrecht, engi...
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$3.4M sought for Young Memorial building
MORGAN CITY, La. The Louisiana Senate is expected to vote this week on a bill which includes $3.4 million for a major campus project at South Central Louisiana Technical College Young Memorial Camp...
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Sheriff: Honorary membership program provides training, resources
MORGAN CITY, La. -- St. Mary Parish citizens can become honorary members of the Louisiana Sheriff’s Honorary Membership Program by making a contribution to the program, which helps provide training...
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Morgan City firefighters responded to a house fire in Siracusaville shortly after 1:30 p.m. Monday. The house was not occupied. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Fire destroys abandoned home in Siracusaville
MORGAN CITY, La. Morgan City firefighters responded to fire in Siracusaville Monday afternoon after an abandoned house caught fire. The Morgan City Fire Department received a call about a fire in t...
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Morgan City Council meets today
MORGAN CITY — The city council will meet at 6 p.m. today at the City Court Building in Morgan City. The agenda includes the finance committee’s recommendations to allocate $9,150 from the general f...
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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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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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Junior Fair and Livestock Show
Oday Hebert, top photo center, garnered champion pen of broilers and reserve champion pen of broilers in the rabbits division at the St. Mary Parish Junior Fair and Livestock Show on Jan. 19. Secon...
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Rhonda Cheramie, of Bayou L’Ourse, holds a photograph of her daughter, Debbie, who died Feb. 16, 2012, from cystic fibrosis. Michael Morris, right, of Galveston, Texas, is running in memory of Debbie and for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Submitted Photo
Runner dedicates 600-mile trek to Morgan City woman who died from cystic fibrosis
MORGAN CITY, La. — At first glance, a man running on the side of U.S. 90 through Morgan City last week with a weathered beard and baseball cap may remind someone of the famous scene from Forest Gum...
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Borne new JDC judge
Assistant 16th Judicial District Attorney Vincent J. Borne is moving to the judge’s bench. At the end of qualifying last week Borne was unopposed in his bid for District Judge in Div. C, the positi...
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Sheriff’s office hosts Leadership St. Mary
St. Mary Parish Chamber of Commerce Leadership St. Mary participants visited the St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office in Franklin and the shooting range last week. The group began on the fourth floor o...
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