In the early weeks leading up to the 2012 Legislative Session, state lawmakers were inundated with phone calls and correspondence regarding Governor Jindal’s education reform initiative. But soon, legislators began hearing even stronger reactions regarding reforms being brought by the administration in an attempt to shore up funding for Louisiana’s retirement systems.
Just this past weekend, this writer was at Grand Isle, sitting on the beach in the sunshine and reading a book. It was slightly windy and the waves were tumbling in.
There was good news at the State of the Coast conference on Louisiana’s coastal restoration efforts this week in New Orleans. According to Garret Graves, chairman of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, our state hopes to launch a new diversion of Mississippi River water and sediment into the Barataria Basin to build up the wetlands.
Kase Alan Friloux, 3, passed away on Monday, June 18, 2012 in Houma.
Robert Edward Ciuzio Jr., 59, of Norco, passed away Friday, June 22, 2012, at Northridge Care Center.
Edward A. “Baloosey” Schmill, Sr., 93, passed away on Friday, June 15, 2012 at 8:45 a.m. in Thibodaux.
Jean Marie Louviere Cambre peacefully entered eternal rest at her residence surrounded by her family on Sunday, June 10.
•Coronji K. Calhoun, 21, of 850 Easy St. in New Sarpy, was arrested on June 18 and charged with aggravated battery.
A 40-year-old Arkansas man, who police say was intoxicated, was seen walking around in Luling near River Road wearing only a towel, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office.
An emaciated horse that escaped from the yard of Yolanda Breaux’s residence on Sharon Avenue in Boutte two weeks ago is still in the custody of the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office.
For more than two decades, parish residents have made an annual trek to the West Bank Bridge Park during the Fourth of July week for an evening filled with music, food, fun and, most importantly, a fireworks show that is expected to last 20 minutes.
Two St. Charles Parish residents being held for the May 29 murder of Jared Mealey in St. Rose have each said the other did the shooting.
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