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Shoreline protection test
The St. Mary Soil and Water Conservation District has created a floating island as a test to determine if it will help to reduce wave action and protect the shoreline. It is a 300-foot strip plante...
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Patterson's light contest Dec. 14-16
Patterson Garden Club and the City of Patterson will host its Christmas Lighting Contest soon. Judging for mobile homes will be held Dec. 14 from 6-8 p.m. Judging for houses will be held Dec. 16 fr...
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FFH Employee of the Year
Supervisor Tim Fakier, R.N., was recently named Franklin Foundation Hospital’s Employee of the Year. Also honored but not pictured was Mary Lynn Buteaux with a 45-Year award.
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Dainty flowers
Orchids are one of the most spectacular flowering plants, and come in a multitude of colors, shapes and sizes. Orchids can be great indoor houseplants and range in size from a small 2-inch plant to...
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Thanksgiving goodwill
Members of Disciples for Christ Ministries of Franklin were out preparing and serving meals Thanksgiving morning. More than 150 meals were served throughout the Franklin area. Second photo, Sister ...
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Visitors
Work is continuing on the 1,600 square-foot Cajun Coast Visitors and Convention Bureau’s Welcome and Interpretive Center in Morgan City. The facility, on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at U.S...
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Congressman tours rig, views training upgrades
While in Morgan City, Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. dropped by the International Petroleum Museum and Exposition to see first-hand the only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard a...
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Berwick Garden Club sets lighting contest
The Berwick Garden Club’s annual Christmas lighting contest will be judged Dec. 5 and 6. Mobile homes will be judged Sunday beginning at 6 p.m. Monday is reserved for houses, also beginning at 6 p....
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District 1 Christmas banquet set Saturday
Residents of St. Mary Parish District 1 are hosting the fifth annual community Christmas banquet entitled “Empowerment Begins at Home.” The event will take place on Saturday at 6 p.m. at the West S...
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MCPD seeks suspect in Sunday shooting
An altercation led to a shooting in the 200 block of Second Street in Morgan City Sunday. Police were called around 3:38 p.m. after the 54-year-old man was shot in the arm and received a laceration...
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Porn investigation ongoing
Further details have emerged on the Wednesday arrest of a Patterson man on child pornography charges. Early last week, state police received information that Michael Stedman, 27, of Watson Lane was...
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One killed, several injured in wrecks
A Theodore, Ala., man succumbed early Thursday morning after his vehicle struck another head on and then caught on fire. Morgan City Police, who are withholding the name of the 54-year-old man beca...
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