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Free vessel check offered
LAFAYETTE, La. — The Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 44 are providing free vessel safety checks and sponsoring a kickoff event for National Safe Boating Week from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sa...
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Grads on list, but not pictured, may turn in photos by Monday
Graduates from Morgan City, Central Catholic, Berwick and Patterson high schools who are listed as “not pictured” on graduation photo pages now being published may submit their photo to The Daily R...
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Relay for Life
Relay for Life is Saturday in Mogan City
MORGAN CITY, La. -- The central event of the East St. Mary Relay for Life takes place at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium Saturday. The Relay for Life is sponsored by the American Cancer Socie...
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Gabriella Darden
Centerville High top grads recognized
Centerville High School’s Class of 2013 will be led by the top two graduates, Jaric McDaniel and Gabriella Darden, during commencement exercises tonight. Gabriella Darden is the daughter of Monique...
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Alexis Nicole Cross
Top grads announced at West St. Mary
West St. Mary High School announces its top graduates for the 2012-13 school term — Becka Renee’ Caro, Alexis Nicole Cross, Megan Elizabeth Arton and Hayley Hiles. Commencement exercises are at 6 p...
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Berwick considers funding new playground equipment
BERWICK — Town leaders are considering paying for a $40,000 piece of playground equipment to replace the 25-year-old equipment at the Berwick Civic Complex. Troy Lombardo, the council representativ...
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Welcome center lifted -- Building sagged about 4.5 feet in 2012
MORGAN CITY, La. — Nearly 11 months to the date the Cajun Coast Visitors and Convention Bureau Welcome and Interpretative Center building sagged about 4.5 feet, the center is now back to its origin...
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Tour du Teche registration opens
Registration for Tour du Teche IV, a three-day race for kayaks and canoes down Louisiana’s lush Bayou Teche, is open until 5 p.m., Friday, Sept. 13. The 135-mile race is Oct. 4-6 with pre-race even...
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From left, Port of Morgan City attorney Gerard Bourgeois swears in commissioners Tim Matthews Sr. and R. Scott Melancon at Monday’s Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District meeting.
Port seeks grant to extend its dock
MORGAN CITY, La. — The Port of Morgan City is seeking a $10 million to $12 million grant to pay for extending the port’s dock to the west and to the seawall while also upgrading the dock, said Mike...
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U.S. Rep. Charles W. Boustany Jr., R-Lafayette, spoke during a hurricane preparedness forum Monday at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium.
Boustany: Flood insurance is top priority
MORGAN CITY, La. — Making sure the FEMA flood maps accurately reflect the flood risk in St. Mary Parish and all along the coast while trying to keep insurance rates affordable is a top priority for...
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A hurricane season preparedness forum was held Monday in the ballroom of the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium.
Hurricane forum: Size of storm is just as important as category
MORGAN CITY, La. — When preparing for a hurricane or tropical storm, the size of the storm may be just as important as the category, officials from the National Weather Service and National Oceanic...
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DARE grads
Chitimacha Tribal Police Department held its 2013 DARE graduation at Chitimacha Tribal School May 6. The graduates are Jasmine Derouen, Kaleb Fluke, Evan Frederick, Savannah Guillory, Malikai Heber...
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Groundbreaking ceremonies were held Wednesday for new medical offices next to Franklin Foundation Hospital. Above are Hospital Service District II board member Didi Battle, CEO Parker Templeton and board members Chairman Allan Von Werder and Eugene Foulcard. Pictured below are hospital staff, local public officials and representatives of Core Construction Group of Lafayette and Architect Design Studio of New Iberia.
FFH breaks ground on medical offices
Franklin Foundation Hospital held groundbreaking ceremonies Wednesday for construction of its new medical office building. Hospital Administrator and Chief Executive Officer Parker Templeton said m...
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A scorched stove stands in the charred rubble of a house left by an early morning fire today that claimed the lives of two Patterson residents at the corner of Martin Luther King Avenue and Hickory Street in Patterson.
Patterson house fire kills retired teacher, blind man
By JEAN L. KAESS and ZACHARY FITZGERALD Staff Reporters PATTERSON — A retired St. Mary Parish educator perished along with another person in an early morning fire that destroyed both her home and a...
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Bayou Teche nominated to scenic rivers; hearing slated
A public hearing will be held Friday in Baldwin to receive comment on the nomination of Bayou Teche into the state’s Natural and Historic Scenic Rivers program. The Secretary of the Department of W...
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Sen. Bret Allain
I-49 Coalition seeks paying members
PATTERSON, La. — The I-49 South Coalition took a first step toward recruiting paying members for the push to complete I-49 South from Lafayette to New Orleans. State Sen. Bret Allain, R-Franklin, h...
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The ninth annual Black Achievement Award Banquet was held Saturday at the Broussard-Harris Recreation Center in Franklin. Mistress of ceremonies for the event was Sandra Burrell. The 2013 Honorees pictured from left above are Beverly Epps, Pearl Rack, Albert and Savannah Barabin, Dianne Alexander, Lucy Watson, Edgar Barrilleaux, Connie Robinson standing for honoree Ethel Robinson, Joni Brown standing for honoree Johnny Brown Jr., Izola Cooper, Karen Salone standing for honoree Eloise Salone and Ricky Armelin. Honorees not pictured are Beulah Gibson, Marguerit Bell, Charles Middleton and Annie Boyd.
Honorees
The ninth annual Black Achievement Award Banquet was held Saturday at the Broussard-Harris Recreation Center in Franklin. Mistress of ceremonies for the event was Sandra Burrell. The 2013 Honorees ...
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St. Mary Parish Superintendent of Schools Donald Aguillard
Schools face relentless funding cuts
Lafayette school officials have asked area legislators to push for a funding increase for public education and for relief from some unfunded state mandates to help the district overcome a $12 milli...
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Franklin council to consider pay raises
Franklin City Council members meet Tuesday in regular session for March. Guests include Brenda Viator with the Mom2Mom organization, David Bourdier and the Cypress Sawmill Festival queens and Glenn...
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Chief Warrant Officer Bryan J. Henderson, 27, of Franklin, La.
Franklin Parish man among soldiers killed in helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan (updated)
The Defense Department has released the names of the five U.S. service members who were killed when a helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan on Monday, according to a cnn.com report. A soldier ...
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Over-filled trash cans on Veterans Boulevard in Patterson could attract black bears.
Bear-proof trash cans are unique to St. Mary Parish in Louisiana
St. Mary Parish is the only place in the state that deploys bear-proof trash cans. “This is the only place in the state of Louisiana that we have bear-proof cans. St. Mary Parish can step up to the...
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Baldwin Mayor Wayne Breaux, left, presented the keys to the city Thursday to legal counsel Vincent Borne for his decade of service to the board of alderman. Borne has been sworn in as a judge for 16th Judicial District Court and resigned his position as Baldwin’s legal adviser in February. The board Thursday appointed town resident and Franklin attorney Joseph Tabb as its new legal counsel.
Baldwin eyes derelict vehicle options
Lincoln Street in Baldwin is in severe need of repairs and resurfacing would be even better. A letter from residents of the street was presented Thursday to the Baldwin Board of Alderman during its...
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Holy Cross Elementary School students in Katie Rock’s fifth-grade class awaited the announcement and presentation of the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis. Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio who was elected pope, is the first pontiff from the Americas. Students cheered his arrival on the Vatican balcony.
Francis impresses religious here
Reaction by Catholics across the state, as well as locally, to newly appointed Pope Francis has been positive. Monsignor J. Douglas Courville, pastor of St. Stephen Catholic Church in Berwick, said...
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Parish trying to keep West Gate at Wax Lake open
Parish administrators are attempting to convince the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to continue to fund operation of the west floodgate of the Wax Lake Outlet at Bayou Teche. Wednesday, members of th...
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