Caroline Shinkle, a senior at Cranbrook Kingswood High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and Managing Editor of her school newspaper, The Crane-Clarion, has chosen the [...]
Danica Ansardi, owner of Ansardi Financial Services, LLC, was announced as the incoming Chairperson of the Plaquemines Parish United Way Campaign for 2010-2011, at the [...]
Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals held a public meeting at the Buras Auditorium July 13 to discuss their ongoing efforts to monitor air and water quality in Plaquemines Parish in response to the BP oil spill. Overall, the report regarding air and water quality was positive, [...]
So many Plaquemines residents and business owners squeezed into St. Patrick’s New Life Center last week, extra chairs were set up behind the speaker’s table. The crowd came to see Kenneth Feinberg, the man President Barack Obama selected to administer the $20 billion set aside by BP for claims. Feinberg, who is best known as [...]
Empire’s ‘Vessel of No Opportunity’ gets its chance to work for BP The sign was easy to spot from Highway 23 in Empire. Painted on the side of an ice chest on the deck of an imposing 70-foot-long schooner named “Perfection,” the sign, in red and black letters, read “Vessel of No Opportunity.” The Perfection’s [...]
Brooke Petkovich recently participated at the National Qualifier track field meet held at Tad Gormley Stadium in New Orleans. She qualified to go the AAU [...]
According to district calculations for the 2009-2010 school year, Plaquemines Parish is ranked first in the state in percent proficient in fifth grade and tenth grade Math (students scoring Advanced, Mastery, and Basic). In ELA, the district’s fourth grade students ranked second in the state and several other grades were ranked in the top five. [...]
By the time Plaquemines Parish Council Chairman Don Beshel gaveled the council’s July 8 meeting to a mid-afternoon close, the council had, with little fanfare, affected significant change on the makeup of the parish’s legal team. In two votes, the council impacted three of the parish’s attorneys – terminating one, promoting another, and placing a [...]
Last Monday, Audrey Mudge and her neighbors on G Street in Belle Chasse were enjoying a pleasant weekday afternoon – working in the yard, visiting with passersby, enjoying the outdoors from the patio. And then, around 3:30 that afternoon, the neighbors on G Street were confronted face-to-face with one of the grim realities of the [...]
Qualifying was closed as of Friday, July 9, 2010 at 5 p.m. The eligible candidates are listed below for the election being held on October 2, 2010. Lieutenant Governor Kenneth “Ken” Burkhalter James “Jim” Crowley “Jay” Dardenne Kevin Davis Caroline Fayard “Butch” Gautreaux “Sammy” Kershaw Melanie J. McKnight Roger Villere Judge, Court of Appeal 4th [...]
