The Belle Chasse Cardinals opened up district 8-4A play in fine fashion recently at home versus the Vandebilt Catholic Terriers. All nine hitters recorded a hit, and the Cardinals slugged three home runs in the 20-5 beating of district foe Vandebilt Catholic. Nick Beall recorded the win on the mound, and the defense settled down [...]
Phoenix held its annual Elementary Parent Day recently. Parents were invited to school for refreshments and to spend time with their students in class. At the end of the day, the elementary school put on a Black History Month program for the entire school. They did an excellent job and we are very proud of [...]
Kenneth Drive, the short street in Belle Chasse that connects Highway 23 to Springwood Estates, was again a topic of discussion at last week’s council meeting. Residents of the street have seen their quiet dead-end turned into a thru-street for those who avoid highway traffic by cutting through Springwood, by way of Kenneth Drive, to [...]
Parish President William Nungesser delivered the State of the Parish address before the Plaquemines Association of Business and Industry (PABI) this past Wednesday, detailing many of the issues facing the Parish over the next year and beyond. FEMA and the Flood insurance Concerning FEMA and the Costal Plan, President Nungesser reiterated the recently reported success [...]
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Jo-Ellen Darcy, and the U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, Lt. Gen. Robert Van Antwerp, visited the site of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway West Closure Complex, in Belle Chasse, on the Intracostal Canal this past week. The GIWW West Closure Complex consists of the largest drainage pump station [...]
Our Lady of Perpetual Help School participated in the 2011 Academy of Our Lady’s National Honor Society’s Academic Fair. Pictured here are the winners from the event. Front row, from left are Katie Goens, Hannah Bouchie, Jack Gasquet, Isabella Green, Ryan Artus, Katelyn Luebbert and Andrew Lewis. Back row, from left are Jacob Dobson, Brandon [...]
The second largest diving company in North America has found a home in Plaquemines Parish. Epic Divers & Marine has set up shop in Belle Chasse, revitalizing a facility left vacant for years. The company is a full service commercial diving contractor with specialized dive support vessels. Parish government recently visited the location to meet [...]
Indiana Tech junior Rodney Bartholomew from Port Sulphur helped lead the Warriors to an overall record of 22-11 and a third place finish in the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference during the regular season and advanced all the way to the finals in the WHAC Conference Tournament. Rodney, transferred in from Corning Community College, played in all [...]
BauerFinancial, Inc. in Coral Gables, Florida, the nation’s bank rating firm, recently recognized Mississippi River Bank in Belle Chasse, as one of the strongest banks [...]
FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate recently agreed to modify the agency’s flood modeling policy, an innovative idea that originated with modeling to protect Plaquemines Parish. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will no longer use its “without levee” analyses to determine flood risk maps, which in turn should also lower flood insurance rates. FEMA will now take [...]
