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Health Fair
The Lighthouse Missionary Baptist Church held a health fair at Franklin Senior High School on Oct. 20. The health fair, sponsored by Teche Action Clinic, offered free screenings for things like ast...
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WSM Homecoming Royalty
Members of the West St. Mary High School‘s Homecoming Court are from left Second Maid Nadia Spiller, Queen Alexis Cross and First Maid Adajee Young. The court was presented Friday at Wolfpack Stadi...
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Kathy Sherman of Morgan City, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, was surprised with a check for more than $1,000 by the staff of Morgan City Health Care Center Thursday night. Sherman thought she was going to hear a speech by her niece about breast cancer awareness, but arrived to a room full of family and friends who offer her support. The money was raised at Morgan City Health Care Center’s fall festival Oct. 20.
Help for a Morgan City cancer patient
MORGAN CITY, La. — She was surprised to say the least. Kathy Sherman, 54, has gone through some difficult times recently, but she did not expect what happened Thursday evening at Morgan City Healt...
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St. Mary Parish's Most Wanted
St. Mary Parish's Most Wanted
St. Mary Parish’s “Most Wanted” list for October includes accused armed robbers, thieves, neglectors of children, trespassers and assaulters. The Daily Review’s “Most Wanted” began in September wit...
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St. Mary Parish jobless rate down
The St. Mary Parish unemployment rate was 7.4 percent in September, down from 8.6 percent a year ago, according to a federal Bureau of Labor Statistic report. September’s jobless rate was also dow...
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National political analyst Charlie Cook, editor of The Cook Report, talks to LSU students in the Holliday Forum of the Manship School of Mass Communication Oct. 12.
Obama distances himself from Congress, analyst says
By FERRIS McDANIEL LSU Manship News Service BATON ROUGE — President Barack Obama’s lack of interaction with Congress has become a major concern in the upcoming presidential election, says national ...
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Festival kickoff
A Business After Hours kicked off the 13th Annual Franklin Harvest Moon Fest Thursday night. It was held at the Comfort Inn and Suites by the St. Mary Parish Chamber of Commerce.
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FFH books $1.1 million in surplus
Franklin Foundation Hospital ended its fiscal year in September with a $1.1 million surplus, according to reports by the hospital’s Chief Financial Officer Ron Bailey during Hospital Service Distri...
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Holy Cross Elementary students with alligators are John Charles Hebert, Grant Stansbury and Andrew Duval. Gator-touching is one of the events at the school’s Octoberfest Saturday.
Holy Cross plans Octoberfest Saturday
MORGAN CITY, La. — The Holy Cross Elementary School’s annual Octoberfest fun day begins at 9:30 a.m. Saturday on the school grounds with a “Tough Kids Triathlon.” The Octoberfest opening time for ...
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Morgan City Junior High’s second block seventh- and eighth-grade physical education class, led by Cindy Gunner, listen to the drug-free awareness topics for Wednesday during “Wear Red Day.”
Red Ribbon Week -- Parents, grandparents learn how to protect children
PATTERSON, La. — Parents and grandparents from St. Mary Parish learned how they can protect their children from a variety of issues facing youngsters today including bullying, Internet safety, and ...
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Wheelhouse -- A calendar of events for East St. Mary Parish
Fall Fstival At Bayou Vista Baptist Church, 411 Field Road, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30. Free hot dogs, drinks, fun jumps and games for children. Tailgate party Friday, Nov. 2, 3 p.m. until...
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Juveniles, adults charged in local fight
Franklin Police responded to a large fight Wednesday evening at the intersection of Iberia Street and Anderson Street. Police were called to the scene at 5:45 p.m. Multiple juveniles were arrested,...
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Frontage road accident
A car collided with a sugar cane hauler late Tuesday morning on the U. S. 90 service road east of the Willow Street overpass. At about 10:45 a.m., Franklin Police say, the driver of the truck was m...
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Rockin' around ...
Patterson High School held its first Christmas Fest Sunday after the city’s annual Christmas parade. Games, contests and activity booths were open to anyone wanting to take part in the fun. Here, 6...
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Cubsight
The Louisiana Lions Cubsight Program recently offered free vision screenings to young students in grades pre-K and kindergarten at Holy Cross Elementary School in Morgan City. The test provides ins...
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Man arrested for attempted murder of 2
A Morgan City man was arrested for the attempted second-degree murder of his stepdaughter and her boyfriend. Bobby Ray Flores, 63, of Arkansas Street was arrested at 12:40 a.m. Sunday. At approxima...
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Franklin's "Top Cops"
Four Franklin Police Department officers were recognized as “Top Cops” Thursday during Mothers Against Drunk Driving’s “Light of Hope” ceremony. Franklin Police had the most officers recognized of ...
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School board remap headed for hearing
CENTERVILLE — The St. Mary Parish School Board reviewed and tentatively accepted a fourth redistricting plan Thursday. This version of the plan, according to demographer Mike Heffner, melds the be...
Dec 16, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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MADD "Top Cops"
St. Mary Parish Mothers Against Drunk Driving held its “Light of Hope” ceremony at the Teche Theater in Franklin Thursday. “Top Cop” awards were handed out to Louisiana State Police troopers with t...
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Former rec liaison pleads to $76K theft
Former Town of Berwick recreation liaison Rhonda Burtner pleaded guilty Dec. 8 to the theft of just over $76,000 from sports leagues in Berwick. The St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Office received a comp...
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Plaques of appreciation were presented to three out-going St. Mary Parish council members Wednesday during their final meeting. From left are President Paul Naquin who is returning for his second term; Gary Duhon of Morgan City who has served the past two terms as an at-large representative and lost his bid in October for parish president; Craig Mathews, the District 1 representative unseated after one term; Chuck Walters who has served two terms each as Amelia single-member and at-large representative who did not seek reelection; and at-large Councilman Steve Bierhorst of Patterson who is currently serving as the council chairman.
Three council members make final meeting
The St. Mary Parish Council said farewell to three of its members Wednesday in the final meeting of the current council. The new term begins on Jan. 9 when the new council will take the oath of off...
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Correction
The story that was included about a social to welcome Dr. Darrel Solet, the newest doctor at the Cardiovascular Institute of the South's Morgan City clinic, will be held Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at th...
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Stone CEO lays out company's strategy
MORGAN CITY — Planning ahead — as much as three years from now — is part of Lafayette-based Stone Energy Corp.’s business strategy. The company’s President and CEO, David H. Welch, told the Atchaf...
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Local charities got a big boost Tuesday with donations to two Franklin agencies by David and Dale Hartford (manager of Danny’s Fried Chicken) of Data Management Systems Inc. of Patterson. The Hartfords, at left above, donated loads of toys to Chez Hope and 20 cases of food to the Emergency Aid Center. With them above are Chez Hope staff Vanetta Thomas, Cynthia Segura, Ida Borel and Rebecca Rodriguez. They are shown below with Patti Ibert, director of the Emergency Aid Center, a united Way for south Louisiana agency. The center’s annual food drive is ongoing today until 7 p.m. Donations may be dropped of at the Church of Assumption church hall in Franklin, the Baldwin Fire Department or Calvary Bible Church in Centerville.
Holiday giving

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