Although reports of an impending rise in flood insurance rates for over half the parish have been bandied about ever since FEMA came to town on April 1, the exact formula used to find out insurance rates has yet to be released.
Over 900 parish residents packed into a standing room only crowd at Hahnville High School’s auditorium on Monday for a town hall meeting on the potential effects of the FEMA flood remapping process and ensuing flood insurance rate increases due to the Biggert-Waters Act passed by Congress last year. […]
The St. Charles Parish Council will consider hiring an attorney to take Parish President V.J. St. Pierre to court over his refusal to sign a contract with lobbying firm Tauzin Consultants.
Billy Woodruff and Mary Clulee are in a runoff for the St. Charles Parish District II council seat after neither candidate secured more than 50 percent of the vote in Saturday’s election.
St. Charles Parish attorney Leon “Sunny” Vial has withdrawn his services from the Paradis Library in connection with a mold problem at the new branch.
Even though South and North Korea are very small countries, they are a major issue in the way the world turns in the future. […]
Dear Editor,
The flood that is sure to eventually happen will devastate St. Charles Parish. It will bring physical damage to the West Bank’s privately owned property as well as public buildings and infrastructure, but the devastation will not stop there. […]
Dear Editor,
As a resident of Bayou Gauche, I am stunned and very angry that we have been betrayed by our government at all levels -local, state and especially the federal government!
With representatives of Sen. David Vitter and Congressman Bill Cassidy in attendance, several West Bank residents voiced impassioned pleas for help Monday night at the St. Charles Parish Council meeting amid fears of plunging property values due to grossly increased flood insurance rates related to new federal regulations and a re-mapping of flood zones by FEMA. […]
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