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Saturday, November 7, 2009
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SORRENTO — The Sorrento Town Council voted unanimously Friday night to take emergency measures to get the town sewage treatment system in better working order.
GONZALES — Ascension Parish government officials said Friday they are undecided about how 28 proposed amendments to the home rule charter will be placed on the election ballot March 27. THIBODAUX — Lafourche and Terrebonne Parish sheriff’s drug task force agents said they intercepted two men planning to conduct a cocaine deal at a McDonald’s restaurant in Larose on Thursday and arrested them on drug distribution charges. GONZALES — Excavation is nearly complete on a mostly in-house parish project to increase the capacity of a ditch draining east-central Ascension Parish, parish government’s top drainage official said. Family members of 40-year-old James Rachal lashed out against two St. Gabriel Police officers accused of stealing $2,000 in cash from him after he died during a crash in August. Investigators say Officer Keith Snowten took $2,000 in cash and gave half of it to Officer Rodrick Wesley as "hush" money. Family members of Rachal are outraged. DONALDSONVILLE — The Ascension Parish Council adopted a raft of proposed amendments to the home rule charter Thursday, sending them on a path to the voters and the March 27 ballot. The Donaldsonville Downtown Development District Main Street program is celebrating the history of the city Saturday during “The Avenue Evening Stroll.” GONZALES — The Ascension Parish Council plans to consider during a special meeting this afternoon in Donaldsonville 28 amendments to the home rule charter more than a year in the making. CONVENT — A state District Court judge sentenced a St. Charles Parish man to life in prison after the defendant was convicted in March of the armed robbery of a Vacherie bank, prosecutors said. ST. JAMES — A worker wearing a safety harness died this week of injuries received in a 40-foot fall from scaffolding inside a storage tank under construction, St. James Parish sheriff’s deputies said. SORRENTO — Arguments about the town’s sewage treatment system problems forced Mayor Blake LeBlanc to end Tuesday’s council meeting before the agenda could be completed. Duplessis — Four-time Jambalaya Festival champion Byron Gautreau burned his first-ever pot of jambalaya. A sexy witch, a friendly clown and the grim reaper competed for prizes at the Ascension Council on Aging’s annual Halloween Party on Friday. Positive Behavior Support programs have been around for a while, Trudy Bates, an eighth-grade teacher at Donaldsonville High School, said. Visitors to Donaldsonville’s Railroad Avenue on Saturday may run into a grieving widow, a politician, priest or a Victorian lady from the past. PRAIRIEVILLE — Sometimes, Jodi Mire admits, it’s hard to be a woman. GONZALES — Dan Gill, Prairieville resident and LSU horticulturalist, believes people should be more forgiving of their home gardens. GONZALES — LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri encourages his players to try to please two people each day. The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3693 and its Ladies Auxiliary hosted its annual bingo party for 123 area seniors and people with disabilities on Oct. 12 at the post hall on Churchpoint Road in Gonzales. GONZALES — More than 620 senior residents from 10 parishes attending the Capital Area Agency on Aging annual meeting learned about services available in the area and had a chance to recommend what they would like to see offered by agencies. Dutchtown Middle School was the host of the recent Ascension Parish 4-H Egg Cookery and Chicken Que contest. Public schools: Chicken and sausage pastalaya, peas and carrots, orange wedges, whole-wheat yeast roll, blueberry cobbler, milk choice. INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT WORD: 10 a.m., Ascension Parish Library, Gonzales. Blood pressure checks, Gonzales Senior Center. 10:30 a.m. Friends of Kirk P. Landry are holding a musical tribute in his honor at 6 p.m. Sunday in Crescent Park in Donaldsonville. St. Amant Primary released its honor roll for the first nine weeks. Several athletes from Ascension Parish competed in the Louisiana Invitational GUMBO Meet Sept. 19 in Alexandria. Three Ascension Cougars football teams are competing Saturday in the Tri-Parish Youth Football League Super Bowl at Assumption High School stadium. The Gonzales Soccer Club’s 10-year-old and younger Gunners team made it to the semifinal round of the Mandeville Midnight Madness Halloween Tournament Oct. 24-25. A federal judge in New Orleans sentenced a major Lafourche Parish drug figure Tuesday to 16 years in prison on a crack cocaine distribution conviction, U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecutors and parish sheriff’s deputies said. The Ascension Parish School Board on Tuesday adopted the certified election results of the system’s $100 million bond initiative, passed by parish voters Oct. 17, and authorized the sale of those bonds at Tuesday night’s regular meeting. GONZALES — Police searched on Tuesday for a man accused of shooting two people Saturday during a fight at a Halloween party reportedly attended by as many as 250 guests at the home of former NBA player John “Hot Rod” Williams. GONZALES — Police searched on Tuesday for a man accused of shooting two people Saturday during a fight at a Halloween party reportedly attended by as many as 250 guests at the home of former NBA player John “Hot Rod” Williams. GALVEZ — A Walker man died after his GMC pickup rear-ended another truck early Monday on La. 42 in Ascension Parish, Louisiana State Police reported. School Board approval of a proposed timeline is the next step for approximately $100 million in construction, renovations and upgrades in fast-growing Ascension Parish, school system officials said. |
