Lifestyles
St. Charles library’s Halloween Extravaganza could draw over 300 kids
An estimated 300 children are expected to attend the St. Charles Parish Library’s second Halloween Extravaganza and new Maze event on Saturday. […]
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Lifestyles
Playground coming to Paradis
It’s a project nearly a year in the making, but Billy Woodruff is pleased with the creativity and cooperation that is bringing a playground to Paradis. […]
Lifestyles
Wetland Watchers volunteers collect 39 bags of trash for Swamp Sweep
As part of the International Coastal Clean-Up, coordinated locally by the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, 84 volunteers with the Wetland Watchers Project cleaned up trash along the nature trails and lake shoreline at St. Charles Parish Wetland Watchers Park. […]
Lifestyles
Art Guild names Sept. winners
The St. Charles Art Guild held its Adult Art Fair Oct. 15 at the St. Charles United Methodist Church, 1905 Ormond Blvd. […]
News
Greenwing chili cook-off offers kids fun-filled day
The second annual St. Charles Ducks Unlimited Greenwing Chili Cook-off will be held Saturday, Oct. 22 at 10 a.m. through 4 p.m. at Wetland Watchers Park in Norco. […]
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Volunteers prep 94-year-old schoolhouse for museum in Des Allemands
In a single pull, Roy Lunk yanked off crumbling paneling in the 93-year-old schoolhouse and revealed still solid cypress tongue and groove paneling beneath it. […]
Lifestyles
Luling man’s good works helped him become LSU royalty
Jacques Petit is a force to be reckoned with as he shops for a law school and plans on bringing all he’s learned back to his home town in St. Charles Parish. […]
Lifestyles
St. Charles friends make funkadelic hit on N.O. scene
Playing Jazz Fest is the dream gig for Noisewater, but in the meantime this funkadelic band with members from St. Rose and Luling is making a noise on the New Orleans music scene. […]
Columns
Remembering the squirrel stampede
Forty years ago, David Freeman was hunting outside Quitman, La., when he witnessed one of nature’s oddest spectacles – a squirrel migration. As he described it, a “kagillion squirrels” came through the woods, and it took a good 15 minutes for them all to pass by. […]