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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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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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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...
Sep 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
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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...
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Tropical Storm Lee damages city park oak
Heavy rain this past weekend was apparently just too much for this oak tree at Grevemberg House Museum. The tree that was on the grounds when the historic house was built in 1851 is estimated to be...
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Patterson Council sets 2011-2012 tax, budgets
PATTERSON — It was all about money at Tuesday night’s city council meeting. City leaders adopted the 8.29 mill property tax for 2011 and the capital outlay and operating budgets for the 2011-2012 ...
Sep 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Inside AmeriPure, Willow Street, Franklin
AmeriPure endures aftermath of BP oil spill, making gradual comeback
AmeriPure Oysters in Franklin has had a tough recovery period but is gradually making a come back after being forced to shut down for five months last year after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mex...
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Sights from 2011 Shrimp & Petroleum Festival
These are the sights and sounds of the 2011 Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, weather and all.
Sep 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lee's effects minimal in Assumption, Lower St. Martin
Effects of Tropical Storm Lee were minimal this weekend in Stephensville and Belle River in Lower St. Martin Parish as well as Bayou L’Ourse in Assumption Parish. According to Maj. Ginny Higgins of...
Sep 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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First qualifers
The first to qualify this morning for various elections across St. Mary Parish were, from left, sheriff’s candidates George Rodriguez, incumbent Mark Hebert and Patrick LaSalle; Albert Foulcard, in...
Sep 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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