Belle Chasse Academy’s Boys to Men group took a trip to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. The trip provided students with opportunities to learn how the United States forces composed of our citizens united together. These united groups of citizens defeated oppressive governments seeking to eliminate those freedoms some Americans take for granted. [...]
“It looks like we’re dead meat,” said Eric Vega of Braithwaite with an stack of FEMA pamphlets and guidebooks under one arm. “We’re at 6.5 feet right now, and they want us to go up to 23 feet. If we don’t, we’ll pay over $20,000 a year in flood insurance. Either way it’s unaffordable.” Vega [...]
For the first time since Hurricane Isaac, the Port Sulphur Library opened its doors last week and the small facility is now equipped with some [...]
District 1 Councilman P.V. Griffin met with several congressional members in Washington D.C. earlier this month to discuss the growing list of issues Plaquemines Parish residents are struggling with. Among the representatives Griffin met with was Congresswoman Maxine Waters, D-CA, co-sponsor of the Biggert- Waters Reform Act. “I told her about the problems this legislation [...]
For nearly eight years, Ramona Billot and Robert Sanders have been using their non-profit organization, PCats, to help control the feral cat population in Plaquemines [...]
Last week, the parish held four National Disaster Recovery Framework stakeholders meetings at various locations around the parish. The premise of the informal public sessions [...]
By a narrow 5 – 4 vote, a soil boring permit was finally granted to NOLA Oil Terminal— but not until residents who neighbor the prospective site reamed the council for putting industry before individuals. The soil boring permit was deferred twice before coming to vote again at the March 14 PPC meeting. “It’s a [...]
With prom season right around the corner, one local Belle Chasse resident finds herself consumed by “the dress.” Seventeen-year-old Brooke Michelle Rosser will not only [...]
By a narrow vote, the Plaquemines Parish Council passed a resolution that allows the bi-monthly meeting sites to rotate between Pointe-la-Hache and Belle Chasse beginning March 14. Districts 2, 3, 4, 5, and 9 voted for the legislation. “The Charter allows this,” said District 2 Councilman Keith Hinkley, who offered the resolution. “The intent is [...]
The consensus is that the vast majority of Belle Chasse residents do not want another lift-bridge. They want the ease of a 100-foot fixed bridge: no waiting for passing marine traffic, no operator to pay, no mechanical equipment needing regular maintenance. The online survey hosted by Senator David Heitmeier, O.D., showed more than 80 percent [...]
