Lifestyles
Heart on your sleeve
Luling native Peyton Dufrene has always enjoyed creating art, but as an engineer at Monsanto he does not have a creative outlet at work.
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Year: 2011
Crime
Sheriff’s Reports 7-28-2011
Sheriff’s Reports 7-28-2011 […]
Government
West bank still lacks levee protection
While the East Bank of St. Charles has a completed hurricane protection levee, mostly along Airline Drive, the West Bank has a ways to go.
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Editorial
What’s wrong with higher interest rates?
I remember that the interest rates on our first two houses were 5 1/4 percent and 6 percent. That was back in the 1960’s.
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Allen Lottinger
Big weekend ahead for Grand Isle
The oldest fishing rodeo in the country resumes this weekend after a brief one-year absence due to the BP oil spill. […]
Government
At least one more full bridge closing expected
Motorists can expect to see workers switch from the northbound to the southbound side of the Hale Boggs Bridge in mid to late August. […]
Government
State makes changes to strict attendance policy
Students who are sick for less than three days no longer have to worry about whether their school will take a doctor’s note.
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Government
Expect mosquito numbers to explode in the next week
While the parish is still technically experiencing a drought, some residents may already be getting tired of the near-constant small rainfalls over the past two weeks.
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Business
Paradis Library has drawn thousands since opening
For years, residents and library board members agreed that a new library branch was needed to serve the Des Allemands, Paradis and Bayou Gauche area.
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