Events & Announcements
St. Gertrude holds community dance
DES ALLEMANDS – St. Gertrude Catholic Church will hold a community dance on Saturday, Oct. 30 from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Father Mac Community Center in Des Allemands. […]
St. Charles Parish Louisiana
Obituaries
Edison T. Prestenbach Jr.
Edison T. Prestenbach Jr., 78, a native of New Orleans and resident of Luling, died on Oct. 9, 2010.
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Obituaries
Jack B. Rickenbacker Jr.
Jack B. Rickenbacker Jr., 64, passed away on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. […]
Crime
Sheriff’s Reports 10-28-2010
Sheriff’s Reports 10-28-2010 […]
Columns
A time bomb for small business in the Health Care Act
Many small businesses were opposed to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”), because they weren’t convinced that it would protect patients or make health care more affordable. […]
Editorial
East Bank clarifier 80 percent complete
A project to construct a new 6-million-gallon-per-day water treatment facility in New Sarpy is about 80 percent complete, according to Waterworks Director Robert Brou. […]
Allen Lottinger
Higher education needs some trimming
Gov. Bobby Jindal is right. The answer to financing college education in Louisiana is not higher taxes. It’s cutting down on many of the unnecessary expenses we have.
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News
New Des Allemands plane crash tale comes from Mississippi
A Mississippi man believes that he knows the full tale behind a wrecked Air Force jet that crashed in Des Allemands, and says that the pilots didn’t land in Killona but instead parachuted into Mud Lake.
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Government
Hwy. 90 / River Road highway in our future?
The chances of the state building a new highway to connect Highway 90 to River Road in Luling appear good after Councilman Shelley Tastet and Parish President V.J. St. Pierre met with the Regional Planning Commission about the project. […]