Based on 2009 final performance, St. John High, like many other top clubs last year, received a high ranking in the initial La. Sportswriters Assn. high school football polls.
Iberville Parish Environmental and Permits Manager John J. Clark described the formation and initial work of the Keep Iberville Beautiful (KIB) program at a conference of its state counterpart last month in Baton Rouge.
The parish has provided sewer connections to three trailer homes moved from a defunct trailer park to Castro Street, though parish has not issued permits for them to be located there, according to Parish Councilman Salaris Butler, who represents the Seymourville area.
A day after the groundbreaking on a $350 million SNF Flopam plant south of Plaquemine, Parish President J. Mitchell Ourso Jr. said he would call on the company to hold a job fair for local residents interested in filling the expected 500 permanent, well-paying jobs.
“I expect to get with them on that, since we were a big driving force in getting them located here,” Ourso said. He wants the Iberville Parish Council to co-sponsor the event at the Carl F. Grant Civic Center.
The old Louisiana Technical College, Westside Campus has a new name, a new campus administrator, and a new direction and approach.
Martha Sealy recently took over as the Interim Campus Administrator of the Capital Area Technical College Westside, which begins registration for its fall semester today (August 19) and tomorrow (August 20). Classes are set to begin Monday, August 23.
State Sen. Rob Marionneaux Jr. filed suit Friday in an attempt to stop the Louisiana Board of Ethics from pursuing an ethics charge against him.
The board last month charged Marionneaux with failing to file a required notice within 10 days of his agreeing to represent Bernard Mechanical Engineers in a lawsuit against LSU, a state agency.
