November 7, 2023 Elio-Daniel Bonifacio- Avila, 24, Arabi: _ight from an o_cer, criminal trespassing, unlawful possession of fraudulent documentations - ID, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, driver must be licensed. Anthony C.

Some exciting news came out last week for gardeners across the nationthe USDA released the new plant hardiness zone maps based on previous year’s high and low temperature data. Everyone knows we’ve been getting hotter, and the thermometers back this up! All of St. Bernard Parish and the upper Plaquemines Parish area has shifted from USDA Zone 9a to Zone 9b, and lower Plaquemines Parish is now 10a, in-line with central Florida. Overall, winters have been averaging warmer, in spite of the periodic polar vortex events that bring frost to the area. Summer temperatures were high, even overnight, contributing to the warming climate data. This was reflected in plants this year. Fruits that require chill hours to make a crop mostly did not produce fruit, while more tropical, cold-sensitive species did pretty well this year. Drought-hardy, tropical ornamental plants had a great year and still look good now, into fall. To see the new hardiness map, visit https://planthardiness.ars. usda.gov/.

Dozens of community members and outdoor enthusiasts from ages ve to seventyve took to the trails this past month for Woodlands Conservancy’s 2023 Hike-A-_on. _ese champion hikers raised funds and increased awareness for local land conservation, while accepting the challenge to walk, hike, or run the distance of a marathon (26.2 miles) in the month of October. _e fourth-annual Hike-A_on began with our Open Woods Celebration, hosted at Woodlands Preserve, which included prizes, food, an interpretive hike, and a look at Woodlands’ preservation progress._

No More Mr. Nice Guy on Trashing Louisiana! Big news about all the trash in the Bayou State.

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Late last week, the United States Coast Guard identied an “oil discharge” near a pipeline system owned by the Main Pass Oil Gathering (MPOG) company o 2the southern coast of Plaquemines Parish. According to a United States Coast Guard press release published on November 20, monitoring e rts and “initial engineering calculations” show that 1.1 million gallons of oil could have been released into the Gulf of Mexico.

In January of 1991, I left my home in lower Plaquemines Parish for Shreveport, Louisiana where I enlisted in the United States Air Force (USAF). _ough my family doesn’t have a long-standing tradition of military service, my stepfather, Chuck Roseburrough, and various uncles were drafted to serve in WW2 and Vietnam. _ey served in the Army, but this was the era of Top Gun, Iron Eagle and Space Camp and I wanted to be a pilot and eventually an astronaut, so I joined the Air Force instead. Ignore the fact that in the Air

The Plaquemines Parish Fair and Orange Festival takes place on December 1-3, at historic Fort Jackson in Buras, marking its 77th year of celebrating Plaquemines Parish's citrus heritage and showcasing the bounties that Plaquemines Parish has to offer.