Dr. Lottie Beebe
With little discussion the school board last week granted Supt. Dr. Lottie P. Beebe more flexibility in the staffing of high school faculty.
School board members last week approved the purchase of the Pellerin Insurance building near their new Administrative Office to further centralize staff operations.
Monday, June 6
Alexander, Christopher, 53, 500 block of St. Ann St., St. Martinville; failure to appear, warrant, St. Martin Sheriff’s Office (SMSO).
Benoit, Brooklyn, 26, 1600 block of Anse Broussard Hwy., Breaux Bridge; theft of items valued at $300 or over, Breaux Bridge Police Department (BBPD).
Breaux Bridge native Michael Richard is among three men scheduled to be ordained into the priesthood on Saturday.
Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel will ordain the three men during an ordination Mass at 10 a.m. at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist.
Two Anhingas squabble over territory. Like many humans, they each want their own piece of this small but beautiful lake.
Out of nine local taxing authorities, the St. Martin Parish Law Enforcement District – essentially the Sheriff’s Office – is the only one that will allow property tax revenues to rise as a result of an increase in taxable values.
Members of the St. Martin School Board will devote part of their meeting to the recognition of employees who are retiring from the system.
The 33 employees include supervisors, principals, teachers and paraprofessionals who have devoted a combined total of 821 years to the parish public school system.
In the June 6 city council meeting, Dana Dugas, speaking for the Main Street Association, pledged more than $17,000 from the Grande Boucherie Association account for construction of the permanent stage at the St. Martinville Festival Grounds.
Monday, May 30
Broussard, Michael, 52, 1100 block of Portage Rd., Arnaudville; violation of protective order, St. Martin Sheriff’s Office (SMSO).
NOT DRESSED FOR A QUICK GETAWAY, yet SMSO detectives think that the suspect fled the robbery show in this security video on foot. An Arnaudville man was arrested several days later. (SMSO)
Detectives with the St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s Office believe they have identified and arrested the man who robbed a Henderson convenience store at knife-point on Sunday, May 29, while wearing a turquoise and white dress.
Three St. Martin Parish men were arrested Thursday, June 2, after sheriff’s deputies executing a search warrant found firearms, marijuana, methamphetamine, body armor and alleged stolen property.
Shortly after 4 a.m. on Sunday, May 29, an unidentified black man wearing a dress entered Myer’s Quick Stop on Grandpoint Hwy., in Henderson, brandished a knife and robbed the clerk.
The 2016 high school football season has reached the halfway mark and the District 5-4A campaign begins Friday for the league’s five teams.
Charli, 9, mans the net for her "Paw Pete," Carl Peter Boggs of St. Martinville, a licensed charter captain in Grand Isle
