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Berwick band director plans final concert, invites former students
Walter Shepherd, band director at Berwick High School for 33 years, plans to conduct his final concert at 7 p.m. Thursday at the high school. Shepherd invites all his former students to participate...
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Area high school graduation, honor banquet dates announced
The dates for honor banquets and graduations at area high schools have been announced. Berwick High School’s senior honor awards will be presented at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the school. Graduation w...
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FFH millage renewed Saturday
Hospital Service District 1’s millage renewal was approved by western St. Mary Parish voters Saturday. The proposition was approved by almost 86 percent of voters. There were 746 for and 126 again...
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School Board to hear ‘wish lists’
All three St. Mary Parish School Board maintenance districts will meet this week to hear school “wish lists” in advance of upcoming budget negotiations. Wish lists for maintenance or capital projec...
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Aileen Dehart, left, of United Blood Services Baton Rouge prepares Morgan City Police Chief Travis Crouch as he donates blood Saturday for East St. Mary Relay for Life.
Police, firefighters compete for Relay for Life
MORGAN CITY, La. — The second round of The Guns and Hoses Battle for the Paddle will feature the best culinary offerings of area firemen and police men that will be a don’t-miss-affair for gumbo a...
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Seniors to present special projects
MORGAN CITY, La. -- Students and teachers alike at Morgan City High School agree that senior projects teach more than the skills students elect to study. The event showcases the efforts of English ...
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Carroll Thorguson
Parish, Berwick community leader, Thorguson, dies
BERWICK, La. -- Longtime businessman and civil servant Carroll Thorguson died Thursday in Lafayette. Thorguson, 67, was a 1963 graduate of Berwick High School and a 1967 graduate of Nicholls State ...
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Gerald Guillory Jr. of Uranus Road in Bayou Vista
Man accused of recording video of woman bathing 3 years ago
BAYOU VISTA, La. -- A 43-year-old Bayou Vista man was arrested Friday by St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s detectives after learning that the man had recorded video of a woman while she was bathing, accord...
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Community Concert Association announces next season’s lineup
Six outstanding concerts are in store for members of our 2013-14 Community Concert Association season, according to Floyd Cloutier, president. As a bonus, new subscribers will be admitted to the 4...
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Relay for Life event is Saturday
MORGAN CITY, La. — Preliminary events leading up to this year’s Relay for Life in East St. Mary Parish continue Saturday with the first challenge in the inaugural Guns and Hoses Battle for the Padd...
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From left, Calvin and Louella Guidry of Morgan City, and daughter, Debbie Breaux of Pierre Part, sing during the National Day of Prayer Special Service on Thursday at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium.
National Day of Prayer observed
MORGAN CITY — About 20 to 30 people gathered in the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium for a special service for National Day of Prayer to pray for those within the community and around the country i...
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Election is Saturday
Election polls across western St. Mary Parish will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday for a single referendum. Hospital Service District 1 is asking voters to approve the renewal of the 3.47 m...
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Tree plantings in refuge
The Natural Resources Conservation Service, St. Mary Soil and Water Conservation District, LSU-Ag Center, St. Mary Parish Black Bear Conflict Office and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently ...
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Parish residents should brace for flood insurrance impact
With Congress deciding the National Flood Insurance Program must pay for itself, certain St. Mary Parish residents can brace for increases in premiums. “People certainly are going to feel this impa...
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Speakers at the black bear meeting held at Patterson City Hall Monday were, from left, Steve Bierhorst, parish councilman and city public works director; Michael Drewry and Fred Kimmel, state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries representatives; Catherine Siracusa, parish black bear conflict officer; Maria Davidson, large carnivore program manager for Wildlife and Fisheries; and Roddy Matherne, representative of Progressive Waste Solutions.
Patterson residents, experts discuss roaming, hungry black bears
PATTERSON, La. — Patterson residents are getting fed up with Louisiana black bears on their property, so they gathered at a town hall meeting Monday to find out from experts what can be done. Black...
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Relay for Life team slots still available
Local Relay for Life organizers held a meeting recently for the upcoming American Cancer Society’s annual event. Among the teams are the Fire District 11 Fire Department and Franklin Foundation Hos...
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Overflow attendance moves Teche hearing
So many local residents turned out Friday evening for a hearing on the nomination of Bayou Teche into the state Scenic Rivers System there was no room for them all. The hearing was slated at the We...
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Morgan City’s Main Street Program is asking for applications for facade grants.
Morgan City Main Street offers facade grants
MORGAN CITY — The city’s Main Street Program is giving downtown businesses the chance to receive a grant to help businesses renovate the outside of their buildings to preserve the historic nature o...
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Amelia Belle winnings up in February
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s state-licensed casinos won nearly $226.9 million from gamblers in February — $25.4 million above their January winnings but down $6.6 million from a year earlier. Har...
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Jillian Romero Farrar and Ashley Helms
Farrar back in Franklin for Brittany’s Project Saturday
Jillian Romero Farrar, singer, songwriter, owner and chief executive officer of Bella Lyrics, will perform Saturday from 10 p.m. to midnight during Brittany’s Project on the grounds of the old Oakl...
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Parish’s sensational trial -- Speaker explores the influence of media coverage in 1927 murder trial
THIBODAUX, La. — James LeBoeuf was murdered on Lake Palourde outside Morgan City, and in July 1927, James Beadle, Dr. Thomas Dreher and the victim’s wife, Ada LeBoeuf, were tried and found guilty....
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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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