New School Board sworn in Jemi Carlone thought she would be able to retrieve some of her belongings from the old Alternative School in Buras shortly after Hurricane Katrina. The former teacher said she expected items kept in the top drawer of a tall file cabinet would be fine. What she discovered were desks and [...]

A look at Bay Jimmy eight months after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill reveals dead grass and reeds, matted down in muddy oil, receding the edge of the marshes about 50 feet; tiny paw prints leave iridescent indentations on the ground. A tour of the bay, one of the hardest hit spots by the spill [...]

Parish President Billy Nungesser and the nine parish councilmembers swore their oaths of office last week in a packed ceremony at the Buras Auditorium. Parish President Billy Nungesser and Councilmembers Keith Hinkley of District 2, Stuart Guey of District 4, Anthony Buras of District 5, Burghart Turner of District 6, and Marla Cooper of District [...]

Families who otherwise would not have been able to afford a special holiday meal were given one at the Belle Chasse Auditorium on Dec. 20. United Healthcare partnered with Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and the United States Department of Agriculture Commodities to get 196 turkeys to the low-income residents living in [...]

New retail shopping development in BC causes controversy Plaquemines Parish, in particular Belle Chasse, has consistently thwarted the establishment of national chain stores, protecting locally owned small businesses. In the past, zoning issues and an inability to get necessary permits have been reason enough to stop the building plans of Winn Dixie and Walgreens, but [...]