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women’s service Hosted by Women’s Department of Second Missionary Baptist Church, Morgan City, 11:45 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 30. Guest speaker sister Gina Thomas of Pilgrim Grove Baptist Church. Public ...
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Charles Pratt Sr.
Pratt seeks election as Morgan City District 3 councilman
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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The Berry Brothers Remediation site in Bayou Vista.
Bayou Vista company purchased
Staff Report BAYOU VISTA, La. — Berry Brothers Remediation in Bayou Vista has been purchased by American Pollution Control Corp., an oil spill response and environmental solutions provider. The Ba...
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Morgan City FEMA Center to close Friday
Staff Report MORGAN CITY, La. — St. Mary Parish residents have until Friday to visit the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center located in Morgan City. The center closes at 6 p.m. Friday. The center is loca...
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Parish council meets Wednesday
Members of the St. Mary Parish Council will meet in regular session Wednesday. Items on the agenda include: —Introduction of an ordinance establishing the speed limit on Cajun Way Road in Amelia. —...
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Medical account established
MORGAN CITY, La. -- A special account has been established at M C Bank to assist with medical and travel expenses for Jarred Gonzales. The account has been opened in the names of Leroy Gonzales or ...
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Sinkhole tests to begin
BAYOU CORNE, La. (AP) — Drillers punched into a failed salt cavern and then removed the equipment to make way for tests to learn whether the cavern’s failure caused a huge sinkhole in Assumption P...
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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 ...
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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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Parish council considers coastal permits request
A resolution in support of an expedited permitting process on coastal restoration projects was presented to the St. Mary Parish Council in regular session Wednesday. P.J. Hahn, Plaquemines Parish d...
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Good news told on Lake End Park project
MORGAN CITY — Progress has been made on the proposed Lake End Park cabins in Morgan City, which is one of the 2012 fiscal year access projects proposed for funding in the Atchafalaya Basin Program...
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Could be gone by the weekend
It’s supposed to happen this week: After being purchased at sheriff’s sale by Lad Services LLC of Morgan City for $160,000, plans are to right the barge on Thursday, and it should be removed from t...
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Barge now removed from Bayou Chene
The nearly 500-foot barge sunk in Bayou Chene in May to protect a five-parish area from the potential backwater flooding has been removed. The barge, which kept water levels on the protected side ...
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Hear our prayer
Friday morning members of St. Bridget Catholic Church in Schriever gathered at Fisherman’s Wharf to pray for our safety during this hurricane season. From left are Deacon Lloyd Duplantis, Rev. Domi...
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Prescription drugs warrants roundup results in 23 arrests
Nearly two dozen people were arrested Friday on drug charges after a warrants roundup resulting from a six-month investigation by the Multi-jurisdictional Drug Task Force. The investigation targete...
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MC police officer suspended seven days
MORGAN CITY — When Officer Billi Driskill entered her appeal hearing in front of the civil service board Thursday, she had a two-day suspension. After the nearly four hour meeting, she ended up wi...
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Celebrating 100 years
Knights of Columbus Franklin Council 1420 celebrated its 100th anniversary this year. Patrick Vidrine, District Deputy, presented a certificate to Donnie Coots, Grand Knight, and the Franklin Counc...
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N.Y.-based private equity firm acquires Allison Marine
Allison Marine Contractors Inc. in Morgan City has been acquired by New York-based Lincolnshire Management — a middle-market private equity investment firm — in a multi-million dollar deal. While l...
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Patterson puts hold on tax assessment
PATTERSON — It’s Christmas in August for the residents here. Mayor Rodney Grogan informed residents that the city will only assess 8.29 mills in property taxes as opposed to the 12.41 mills the cit...
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‘The barge’ might have flipped over twice in the past
The barge that overturned in the Charenton Navigation and Drainage Canal is due to be moved within the next few weeks. St. Mary Parish President Paul Naquin also told the West St. Mary Port Commiss...
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Investigation continues into bombs, molestation
Although a privately owned babysitting service was run out of Thomas Breaux’s home, police said the child he is accused of sexually assaulting was not one of the children from that service. Morgan ...
Aug 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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