Business
Physician Spotlight – Dr. Brett Hymel
With a growing practice and return to his native St. Charles Parish, Dr. Brett Hymel specializes in gastroenterology (GI) and will begin seeing patients in the area on July 23. […]
Profiles
Business
Physician Spotlight – Primary and Specialty Physicians of St. Charles
The newly opened Primary and Specialty Physicians of St. Charles in Luling offers services for the entire family, a concept following the national trend of one-stop medical shops. […]
Health
Norco toddler beats doctors’ odds of survival
Trish Caples-Tierney has always dealt with whatever life has thrown her with resilience. […]
Health
How St. Charles Parish’s ‘Biggest Losers’ became its biggest winners
Murray Dufrene gave up Blue Bell ice cream and bread.
It was hard, but Dufrene did it. […]
Lifestyles
Mild-mannered grandmother teaches self-defense as 6th-degree black belt
Donna Bergeron is a mild-mannered, petite, 66-year-old grandmother and retiree from the phone company during day, but she is also a sixth-degree black belt who teaches taekwondo by night. […]
Lifestyles
Destrehan student rolling into parish on 4K-mile cycling trek to Alaska to fight cancer
When Ryan Terrebonne of Destrehan rolls into St. Charles Parish on Monday, he will only have just begun a more than 4,000-mile bike ride from Austin, Texas, to Anchorage, Alaska, to raise money to fight cancer. […]
Lifestyles
Merrill Zeringue sees the beauty in art & people
Art is almost like meditation to Merrill Zeringue.
“It puts me in another realm,” said the Ormond neighborhood resident of painting. “It seems to bring peace and a sense of what God has created with the beauty around us. Art is seeing more deeply all around us all the time – seeing the light and shadows – and the beauty of the world around us.” […]
Lifestyles
Norco crafter is Smithsonian bound
When the invitation came to display her Native American crafts made from recycled materials at the Smithsonian Institute’s Living Earth Festival, Stephanie Escude’ of Norco was in dismay. […]
Lifestyles
90-year-old Fisher recalls Pearl Harbor, cow pastures in Luling and secret to long life
Joseph O. Fisher was finally on his way to following his brother into the U.S. Navy, but little did he know it would take him through two wars, two atomic bombs and the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. […]