Plaquemines Parish firefighters recently moved into two brand new fire stations — one in Port Sulphur, the other in Boothville. Parish President Billy Nungesser, Council Members, and firefighters cut the ribbons for the Port Sulphur Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services building and the Boothville-Venice Volunteer Fire Department. The fire stations are elevated and have [...]
Parish leaders celebrated the near completion of the new Buras public library Sept. 14. The new facility is located on Highway 11 near the Buras Auditorium. The Buras public library will feature 20 computers available to the public, a dedicated children’s section and a community meeting room equipped with a kitchen. As a tribute to [...]
Members of the Plaquemines Parish School Board, along with Superintendent Denis Rousselle, broke ground last week on the new South Plaquemines High School just south of Empire on the site of the old Buras Middle School. The group later traveled a little farther south to turn sand on a new teacher’s housing complex as well. [...]
With the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico choked off for more than a month now, many questions remain in the public square concerning the long-term impacts of the BP oil spill. Is seafood safe to eat? What are the long-term environmental impacts? When will the deepwater drilling moratorium be lifted? How will local [...]
Council could consider override this week In Plaquemines Parish, the council giveth and the council taketh away. In its latest move to shake up the parish’s legal team, the Plaquemines Parish Council voted at its July 22 meeting to impose a 20 percent pay cut on the position of lead parish attorney. The salary reduction [...]
As well kill nears completion, attention begins to turn to recovery. Reports began to surface Aug. 4: BP’s static kill procedure, aimed at injecting heavy drilling mud and cement into the top of the blown out well, was working as planned. The news came on day 107 of the disaster. By Friday, the static kill [...]
The boxes of books began arriving at South Plaquemines High and Elementary Schools in Port Sulphur soon after the 2009-2010 school year came to a close. Box after box, shipment after shipment, the books began to mount. And by the first of July, more than two tons of books – in excess of 11,000 books [...]
For the most part, Bonnie turned out to be the kind of tropical storm people in Coastal Louisiana always hope for. It weakened, then fizzled, and finally disappeared. But despite Bonnie’s collapse, the threat of a storm was enough to bring oil spill response efforts largely to a halt over the weekend. With Tropical Storm [...]
A trio of lawsuits came before the 25th Judicial District Court of Plaquemines Parish last week that challenged the qualifications of three candidates running for parish council. Two of the lawsuits took aim at Bill Hardin and Lyle Stockstill, both of whom are candidates for the District 7 council seat currently occupied by Jay Friedman, [...]
Last week, Plaquemines Parish officials hosted two open houses – one at the Buras Auditorium and the other at Phoenix High School – aimed at arming residents with vital oil spill related information and connecting them to representatives from both BP and various government agencies. In all, the open houses included representatives from BP, the [...]
