Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division agents and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Office of Law Enforcement special agents continue to [...]
Players pictured from left:Ty Martinez, Cody Mills, Andrew Baldwin, Avery Boutchard, Elliot Patai (front row); Jacob Dobson, Dakota Stephenson, Tanner Olsen, Jay Gasquet, MJ Morgan, Zack Drum (second row); Coaches Jason Morgan, Jim Gasquet, and Alex Drum (back row). The Belle Chasse 9 & 10 Red Sox recently celebrated winning the Parish Championship for their [...]
Plaquemines Parish teachers Natalie Lortigue and Stephanie Seago of Belle Chasse Middle School experimented with writing VEX code for robotic equipment during a Gateway to Technology training workshop for middle school teachers who plan to implement Project Lead the Way into their classrooms this fall. This year, Chevron is sponsoring teachers from Plaquemines, St. Tammany [...]
Part of the Louisiana Coastal Area program (LCA), the Barataria Basin Barrier Shoreline Restoration Study was authorized by Congress in 2007. The goal of the study was to restore the barrier in form and function. And through that restoration to increase the acreage of the nearby dunes, shoreline and marshland, which all forms the complex [...]
Last week’s Plaquemines Parish Council meeting saw appropriations for a variety of items, including a Council Attorney and the Fort Jackson Museum Project. Debate also continued over this year’s appropriations to the NFIP fund. Jeremy Dwyer, of the firm Dwyer Cambre & Suffern, was appointed as the Council’s attorney. Chairman Stuart Guey stressed the point [...]
District 1 Councilman P.V. Griffin came to the Council and requested an additional $125,000 for the purchase of the Old Joe Brown Property, now that the original offer had been rejected by the property owner. Three months ago, at the April 28 meeting, the Council had approved funding the purchase of the Old Joe Brown [...]
This year’s legislative review for the Plaquemines Association for Business and Industry (PABI) was given to members by Senators A.G. Crowe, David Heitmeier and John Alario, along with termed Rep. Ernest Wooton. Pictured, from left, are District 1 Sen. Crowe, PABI Executive Director Bob Thomas, District 105 Rep. Wooton, PABI Chairman Mike Ford, District 7 [...]
