Travel business has taken a hit over the last few years. The standard summer vacation was downgraded vastly for the American public from discovering the [...]

The majority of consumer purchases are exempt from state sales taxes during the 2011 Louisiana Annual Sales Tax Holiday on Friday, August 5, and Saturday, August 6.  The sales tax holiday exempts the first $2,500 of the purchase price of each eligible item from the four percent state sales tax.  The law describes eligible items [...]

 Plaquemines Parish submitted a permit to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the project to increase the Eastbank back levees from Braithwaite to White Ditch. The scope involves design and construction to improve the back levees to an elevation of 12.5-feet. Since the mean elevation is approximately 8.5-feet, the new work will improve the [...]

Edwin “Duffy” LaVigne was recently presented a “Life Member” award by the Louisiana State Fireman’s Association for his years of volunteering with the Port Sulphur Fire Department and outstanding efforts during Hurricane Katrina. During the storm, LaVigne stayed behind, rescuing five women in the area. The group managed to ride out the storm by waiting [...]

Both Gerald Thibodeaux and Russell Champagne, CPA’s with the firm Kolder, Champagne, Slaven & Company LLC, presented the 2010 audit report before the Parish Council on July 11 at the Parish Government Building on Belle Chasse Highway. The meeting, along with the accompanying report filed by the firm—which performed the audit of the 2010 Parish [...]

Gladys Preast Castoe has been a lifelong resident of Nairn, LA, and her most treasured memories are those that she has shared over these five [...]

Coach Luke Sheekey and the Plantation Athletic Club (PAC) “Real Madrid” (pronounced ‘Royal Madrid’) 11 and under D1 soccer team beat the Lafayette Fusion in this year’s Louisiana Soccer Association’s Sugar Bowl State Championship, held in Baton Rouge. Named after the famed European football team, the players of Real Madrid took the championship game 2-1, [...]

The Louisiana District Attorneys Association has announced that Plaquemines Parish District Attorney Charles J. Ballay has been elected as a member of the LDAA Board of Directors. The Association is composed of district attorneys, assistant district attorneys and district attorney investigators in the State of Louisiana. It provides training and legal services for prosecutors across [...]

Lynsey White Dasher, an urban wildlife specialist with The Humane Society of the United States, traveled from Washington D.C. to consult with Parish animal control officers, Health Department Superintendent Raymond Ferrer and the Parish Council on the most effective means for controlling the coyote situation—which has claimed several pets in the Parish this year. Dasher [...]

At the most recent Plaquemines Parish Council meeting, held in the temporary Courthouse on F. Edward Hebert Boulevard on July 14, Councilman Anthony Buras, District 5, called on Entergy to explain the latest phase in their plan for creating an additional transmission line that would run down Highway 23 in support of the existing Walker [...]