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Friday, November 20, 2009
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LAFAYETTE — A planned downtown cultural district would offer a 4-cent sales tax break on art and income tax incentives to restore homes, apartments and businesses.
The city is seeking state approval for the special district under a program created in 2007 to encourage artistic hubs as a tool for economic growth and revitalization.
ST. MARTINVILLE — The St. Martin Parish Juvenile Detention Center is a model for juvenile centers elsewhere in the state, Rubye Noble, executive director of the Louisiana Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges, said Thursday. NEW IBERIA — The Iberia Parish School Board on Wednesday unanimously chose the 3.51 percent bid from Morgan Keegan for the purchase of $15 million in bonds for a number of school projects. LAFAYETTE — A proposal to transform N.P. Moss Middle School into the district’s new career and technical high school will be discussed during a 6 p.m. meeting Dec. 9 at the school. ABBEVILLE — A Baton Rouge-based engineer informed the Vermilion Parish School Board of dropping oil and gas revenue from School Board lands at a meeting Thursday. LAFAYETTE — Two people were robbed at gunpoint early Thursday on Jefferson Street, according to a Police Department news release. LAFAYETTE — School Board members on Wednesday night went over a nonprofit’s proposal to open a charter school, but after an hour and a half, decided against moving the proposal forward. Outreach Community Development Corp.’s application to open a Type 1 charter school was introduced to the board at its regular meeting Wednesday. LAFAYETTE — The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Wednesday welcomed its newest addition on campus: a 7-foot live oak. The 4-year-old tree was planted by Acorns of Hope, a nonprofit in its third year of a five-year plan to plant 10,000 live oaks along Louisiana’s coastline. OPELOUSAS — The St. Landry Parish Council voted unanimously Wednesday night to create a new water district for residents asking for improved water quality in an area between Krotz Springs and Melville. LAFAYETTE — Tough decisions await the public and School Board on how to best address the Lafayette Parish public school system’s failing physical plants. There’s at least $408 million in deferred maintenance within the school district’s 46 facilities. Some fixes would be easier than others. FRANKLIN — The St. Mary Parish Council on Wednesday approved a contract with M. Matt Durand LLC for improvements to the Burns Point recreation Area near Centerville. Chief Administrative Officer Bo LaGrange said the company was the low bidder on the job, estimated to cost $1.04 million. LAFAYETTE — The University of Louisiana at Lafayette held an H1N1 vaccination clinic on campus Wednesday and the Lafayette Parish School System is planning to provide vaccinations next month. LAFAYETTE — The Lafayette Police Department asks for the public’s help in identifying a man who entered an apartment on Wilson Street without permission. The incident occurred around 8:30 p.m. Monday in the 600 block of Wilson Street, according to a news release. VILLE PLATTE — The freshman class of Pine Prairie was the center of attention at Wednesday’s meeting of the Evangeline Parish School Board. Pine Prairie High School Acting Principal Barbara Lee and members of her staff made a presentation of the school’s new 9th Grade Academy program to prepare freshman and parents for the high school experience. NEW IBERIA — The Iberia Parish Council on Wednesday selected helicopter company owner Ken Squires to serve on the parish’s airport authority. Squires received eight of the council’s 14 votes. Another contender, Bill Miller, received six votes. A third candidate, Bill Waldrep, received no votes. NEW IBERIA — The Louisiana Technical College Teche Area campus in New Iberia is offering a tuition-free heavy equipment operator program starting Nov. 30. LAFAYETTE — In a few months, a mobile health clinic for low-income women and their children should be making the rounds in the Lafayette area. LAFAYETTE — If the City-Parish Council rejects a proposed rate increase for Lafayette Utilities System, the decision could result in lower water pressure, longer power outages and more sewage back-ups, LUS Director Terry Huval told the council Tuesday in a pitch for the higher rates. LAFAYETTE — The Department of Health and Hospitals will administer free H1N1 vaccines to Lafayette Parish schoolchildren on Dec. 5, the school system announced Monday. LAFAYETTE — An official from the state Supreme Court is being asked to review caseloads in the 15th Judicial District as part of ongoing court proceedings over a plan voted in place by the district’s judges. LAFAYETTE — Dr. James Robert “Bob” Rivet, 76, former medical director of Hospice of Acadiana, died Monday. NEW IBERIA — The Louisiana Technical College Teche Area campus in New Iberia is offering a tuition-free heavy equipment operator program starting Nov.30. LAFAYETTE — A bus filled with city-parish department heads toured troubled areas of Lafayette Parish on Monday to get a firsthand look at junked cars, trash-lined streets and dilapidated houses. LAFAYETTE — A local nonprofit will make its pitch Wednesday to the Lafayette Parish School Board to open a charter school on the campus of N.P. Moss Middle School in time for the 2010-11 school year. LAFAYETTE — The Lafayette Parish School Board will meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday to mull over options to address the conditions of its facilities. ABBEVILLE — The Vermilion Parish Police Jury welcomed news Monday that the Robley Drive Bridge bordering Lafayette will begin to be repaired in about two weeks. The Community Foundation of Acadiana has released a Giving Back Catalog that details specific needs donors can meet for 54 local nonprofit groups. A federal grand jury last week indicted a man doing business as Scott Oaks Chiropractic Clinic on three counts of health-care fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. U.S. marshals arrested a 29-year-old Abbeville man wanted on a first-degree murder count in Atlanta last week. The state departments of Agriculture, Hospitals, Natural Resources and others have public safety programs which require safety inspectors to travel throughout the state. What criteria does the Division of Administration use to determine the need for replacing state vehicles for these safety programs? U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Riedlinger, the longest-serving magistrate in the history of the Baton Rouge-based Middle District of Louisiana, is seeking reappointment for another eight years. For symphony pianist Geraldine Hubbell, it’s not about Gibson and Stratocaster. It’s all about Steinway and Sons. It’s not about Elvis and the Beatles. It’s about Mozart and Beethoven. Gay Boudreaux is well aware of the irony in the decade that saw downtown Baton Rouge blossom being the same one that convinced her that her family’s stationery store, a Third Street institution for 76 years, is no longer relevant to American life. SORRENTO — Marvin Martin beat former two-term Town Councilwoman Troy Braud 57.6 percent to 42.5 percent in a special runoff election Saturday, complete but unofficial election results show. CROWLEY — Voters in the Branch community of Acadia Parish renewed a 10-year, 8.01-mill tax for Fire Protection District 6. The renewal passed by a vote of 50 to 4. The property tax generates about $86,700 a year. LAFAYETTE — Does the physical condition of a school affect a student’s ability to learn? Hospice Compassus is seeking volunteers for a wide range of duties, from listening and visiting patients to running errands. New trial date set in kids-for-bird case State Rep. Rickey Hardy’s move to block $746,000 in state grant funding for the Lafayette Parish School System could put in jeopardy a wide range of programs that target low-performing students. LAFAYETTE — Marjorie Mensman retired four years ago, but the classroom and the students drew her back. The magnet: J.W. Faulk Elementary. |
