The month-old Braithwaite auditorium was standing room only at the September 19 meeting, as hundreds turned out to get a chance to speak, and often scream, their [...]
Kalope Battle, 20, remembering his own high school days playing football, will try to salvage a weight bench for his cousin, Dreione Williams, the quarterback of Belle Chasse High’s JV team. *** Just past Alliance Refinery, nestled against the Mississippi River levee lies the 140-year-old community of Ironton, battered but not completely broken from Hurricane [...]
There were two bits of good news for Plaquemines Parish residents on September 10: Hwy. 23 was cleared of water and marsh grass, allowing all cars to pass through from Belle Chasse to Venice, and an additional $2 million in state funds was secured to raise the crucial roadway. The stretch from Lake Hermitage to [...]
On Sept. 3, Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser met with President Barack Obama in LaPlace to discuss damage caused by Hurricane Isaac and ongoing recovery efforts in Plaquemines Parish. They discussed both short and long-term recovery plans for Plaquemines Parish, including immediate assistance provided by FEMA and long-term aid from local and state government. Nungesser [...]
The sign featuring South Plaquemines High School’s mascot, the Hurricanes, took damage in Isaac. *** After a week of clean ups and repairs, public schools throughout the parish opened yesterday and nearly all have electricity. As of press time, power has been restored to all schools in Belle Chasse, as well as Phoenix High School, [...]
The Plaquemines Parish Fair and Orange Festival Orange Queen Pageant scheduled for this weekend has been canceled. It will be rescheduled and organizers with contact [...]
Boothville-Venice Elementary School suffered roof damage in Hurricane Isaac. Patch work conducted to the roof after Hurricane Katrina was ripped off. Workers were on the job on Sunday starting repairs. Schools on the South end and the Eastbank will have climate control systems set up to maintain the buildings until infrastructure is functioning in the [...]
Residents who rode out the storm in their South Plaquemines homes remained trapped by flooding on Hwy. 23 and were finally able to leave on September 1. As of press time, there were still flood waters from Ironton to West Pointe-a-la-Hache, making that crucial stretch of Hwy. 23 impassable. Parish President Billy Nungesser authorized police-led [...]
*** Rescue operations started early Wednesday morning after a giant wave of storm surge from the north came crashing in on the sleepy Eastbank community of Braithwaite. “Around 11:30 or 12 Tuesday night, Mike LaFrance the commander on the Eastbank said that all of the sudden, all you saw was this wave of water coming from [...]
