The purpose of this letter is to clarify some misconceptions contained in an article published in The Advocate on Dec. 12, 2018. The article stated that almost the entire Sunset Drainage District Levee (SDDL) has subsided at least half a foot from 2014 to 2018, with one area along Petit Lac Des Allemands dropping to 5.9 feet this year, down from 7.1 feet in 2014. […]
Phillip LaRosa and his family saw the water coming toward their home in Norco last Friday so they started picking up everything off the floor – just in case. […]
I like some mums and I cannot lie. We often purchase chrysanthemums (“mums”) as potted plants to give a little short-term color to fall displays. But once the blooms fade, do we toss them? Leave them? I say we should pull them up quickly to retrieve them! They’re actually perennials (plants that live for many years) and many can be taken out of their pots and grown in the landscape. […]
Even after a soccer ball hit Mya Theriot in the face so hard that it knocked her to the ground, she expected to recover and go right back to her beloved game. […]
Arrests Eric Spiller, 38, of 517 S. Jamie Blvd. in Avondale, was arrested Jan. 4 and charged with unauthorized use of an access card as theft (felony), unauthorized use of access card as theft (MISD), […]
Collecting live Christmas trees this month to fortify coastal restoration efforts […]
Amid major changes to St. Charles Parish’s recycling program, the parish will ask residents if they want to resume curbside recycling. […]
When Johnny Bradberry was appointed to serve as Gov. John Bel Edwards’ executive assistant for coastal activities and chairman of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), he claims it was those years after Hurricane Katrina that provided a professional test equal to or greater than the test of Hurricane Betsy. […]
St. Charles Parish President Larry Cochran refuted a recent report that stated the Sunset Drainage District levee has subsided at least half a foot from 2014 to 2018 and as much as 1.2 feet in one area, noting that while the levee indeed has subsided over that time, the publicized numbers were inaccurate. […]
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