Columns

On your marks, get set, climb!

When most people hear the words “St. Charles Parish,” usually their first thought is that of the Hale Boggs Bridge. It’s towers rise over 400 feet tall into the sky with its 5,280 miles of cable used to suspend the roadway well above the Mississippi River traffic below. It truly is a parish symbol. It has done more to pull this parish together than any other effort or object before it. […]

Letter to the Editor

Careless drivers, not bad roads the cause

To the Editor:

Nowhere in Susanne Hinkle’s article “Death Trap” did she state the reasons for the deaths of drivers and passengers in the canal that runs alongside Airline Drive through St. Charles Parish. Those reasons are excessive speed, carelessness and inattentiveness and poor education and driving skills.
There are many of us who have driven that stretch of highway for many years without succumbing to the “Death Trap.” […]