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Louisiana campaigns continue -- Landry and Boustany showdown
By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE — While the national political focus shifted Wednesday from election debates to governing, the campaign season hasn’t wrapped up in Louisiana, with ...
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Small Farm session set
St. Mary Parish’s Natural Resource Consvervation Service office has two upcoming events to assist local farmers and conservationists. On Nov. 30, the Acadiana Small Farm Conference will be held fro...
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Railroad track repairs on NW Boulevard set
Northwest Boulevard in Franklin will be closed for railroad track repairs beginning 6:30 a.m., Thursday Nov. 15, and should be reopened by 3 p.m. that same day.
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Wheelhouse -- A calendar events for East St. Mary Parish
Giant Yard Sale Fundraiser at New Life Tabernacle, 811 Roderick St., Morgan City, 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Nov. 10. Proceeds help build a church in Juarez, Mexico. For info call 985-384-3261 or vi...
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Sweet wins football contest
Frances Sweet of Berwick is the winner of the Daily Review Football Contest. Sweet wins $40. There was a three-way tie for first with the entries missing three games. Sweet overcame the tie by p...
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St. Mary Parish voters tracked state vote on amendments
MORGAN CITY, La.-- Louisiana and St. Mary Parish voters voted “yes” on all but one constitutional amendment according to the Secretary of State’s unofficial results with all precincts reporting. Pa...
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St. Mary Parish backed Landry for 3rd District seat
MORGAN CITY, La. -- St. Mary Parish voted with the state on the majority of races, except in the 3rd Congressional District. While the top vote-getter in the district was Charles Boustany Jr. with ...
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69% of St. Mary Parish voters voted in presidential election

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Dupont, Theriot in runoff for judicial seat
MORGAN CITY, La. -- William Dupont and Mitch Theriot emerged from a field of four in the first circuit court of appeal election and will go head-to-head in the Dec. 8 runoff election. Dupont won in...
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Morgan City council seats filled, winners comment
MORGAN CITY, La.-- Three Morgan City council members were re-elected and a new member was elected Tuesday. They join Barry Dufrene, District 2, who was elected unopposed to the council. In Distric...
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St. Mary Parish voters OK school board term limit (updated)
CENTERVILLE, La. — Just under 77 percent of St. Mary voters backed term limits for school board members, which will limit them to three consecutive four-year terms beginning with elections after J...
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Dupont, Theriot in runoff for judicial seat (updated)
With all 54 precincts counted, William Dupont claimed the lead with 8,530 votes -- 41.75 percent -- in the election for the Division B seat on the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal, but faces a Dec. 8 ru...
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Parish Fair honors
John Sonnier Jr., top , was the recipient of the Poultry Sweepstakes award in the Exhibition Poultry division at the St. Mary Parish Junior Fair and Livestock show Jan. 21. Below, Katherine Comeaux...
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Need for downtown P.O. under review
Following a significant dip in mail volume in recent years, the postal services in Morgan City are among many across the nation that the U.S. Postal Service is examining as the federal agency move...
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Junior Fair winners
The annual St. Mary Parish Junior Fair and Livestock Show was held Friday and Saturday at Franklin Senior High School. Winners in the Swine Showmanship Division were, first phoeo, Champion Junior S...
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Where charity begins
Construction on the Adullam Household of Faith in Patterson is ongoing with work on a duplex to house staff, top photo. The Rev. Marty Harden of Bethel Pentecostal Fellowship said the home, which w...
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Parish mosquito contract goes to MCCI of New Iberia
Mosquito Control Contractors, Inc. of New Iberia landed another two-year contract with St. Mary Parish Wednesday by a margin of one vote. The company was one of two to respond to a request for prop...
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St. Mary unemployment rises slightly
Unemployment in St. Mary Parish ticked up slightly in December, going from 7.7 percent in November to 7.8 percent last month. The parish had 20,533 employed and 1,734 unemployed in December. That w...
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About $1 million was presented to organizations in St. Mary Parish Tuesday by the Community Foundation of Acadiana as part of its share of a $20 million grant from the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers group. Recipients based in St. Mary Parish and regionally with impact in the parish are: Acadiana Works; Evangeline Area Council Boy Scouts of America; Franklin Foundation Hospital; Iberia Industrial Developmental Foundation; Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana; Southern Mutual Help Association; St. Mary Outreach, Inc. and United Way; St. Mary Community Action Agency; The Family Tree Education and Counseling Center; 16th Judicial District Family Services Division; and Little Zion Community Outreach.
Local entities get $1 million in CFA funds
Community Foundation of Acadiana delivered about $1 million in funds for St. Mary Parish organizations Tuesday. Eric Guidry, chief operating officer of CFA, and staff presented the funds at a cerem...
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Gym dandy
Work is progressing rapidly on a new gymnasium for Central Catholic High School in Morgan City. The new gymnasium is being constructed just east of the Sam A. Siracusa gymnasium where athletic even...
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St. Mary Parish Fair homemaking champions
The Annual St. Mary Parish 4-H Fair and Livestock Show was held Friday and Saturday at Franklin Senior High School. Winners in the Homemaking Division were Grand Champion Elementary Exhibitor Kylee...
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Adonis royalty
The first local ball of the season was held Saturday when the Krewe of Adonis presented King and Queen Adonis XXXVII Reggy Torgrimson and Camille Izaguirre as its new royalty. Theme for the event w...
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Natural gas fire
A vehicle struck a natural gas pipeline near St. Joseph Baptist Church Friday evening. According to Franklin Fire Department spokesman Jeff Hildreth the department responded with 16 fire fighters a...
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Victims identified in helicopter crash
MORGAN CITY — A helicopter crash into the Belle Isle salt dome 13 miles southwest of here ended the lives of two men who were en route to an alligator conference Thursday morning. The passenger, L...
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