Faced with a choice of giving a tax break or renovating and expanding the antebellum parish courthouse, voters back in 2005 chose the latter.
While prospects appear dim that Interstate 49 will detour around Lafayette on the Teche Ridge, St. Martin Parish President Guy Cormier says there is still hope for a major new highway in the parish on that naturally elevated route.
Sales tax receipts here are down as they are throughout the area, but so far, spending controls are keeping high priority projects on schedule.
ith judging for the “District’s Cleanest City” just around the corner, St. Martinville schools and civic groups are asking residents to help by sprucing up their properties.
At Monday’s Town Council meeting, Mayor Sherbin Collette reiterated his warning that if voters on April 9 don’t authorize the rededication of a penny sales tax to allow some of the revenue to be used by the sewage system, citizens will be paying higher sewer fees here.
Monday, March 7
Broussard, Drey, 25, 1000 block of Dupuis Rd., Breaux Bridge; issuing worthless checks, illegal possession of stolen things, theft of items valued at $300 or over, St. Martin Sheriff’s Office (SMSO).
Landry, Preston, 38, 1000 block of Lakewood Ln., Breaux Bridge; hold for court (SMSO).
The Breaux Bridge Police Department is asking the public's help in locating Blaire Kimberlyn Jones, 22.
Police said she suffers from medical problems and was last seen leaving a residence on Declouet Hwy between Arnaudville and Cecilia in a 2005 white Toyota Solara bearing LA license XLV443.
At the March 1 Parish Council meeting, the parish was presented with a donation of $4,150 from WoodmenLife to support efforts of Project Front Yard in parish schools. That amount will be used to finance the distribution of the project’s activity books to school students throughout the parish.
Speed limits will soon be raised on some roads in the parish.
At the March 1 Parish Council meeting, President Guy Cormier said that a study by a Lafayette traffic consulting firm has shown that on some roads, improved road conditions would justify a higher speed limit without compromising safety.
The St. Martin School Board last week unveiled a “scope of work and expenditure breakdown” for the $64.5 million bond proposal members hope parish voters will approve in an April 9 special election.
St. Martin Parish public school students and teachers will have two less holidays for Mardi Gras under the 2016-17 school calendar approved last week by the school board.
The calendar was adopted without discussion after a staff report showed that 58.2 percent of the employees favored the proposal over an alternate calendar.
Beginning Monday, March 14, La. 347 between St. Martinville and Parks will be reduced to one lane in alternating directions for roadway construction.
Alternating lane closures will continue on this section of roadway through the scheduled completion of construction in August 2016. All lanes will be opened at night and on Sundays.
Charli, 9, mans the net for her "Paw Pete," Carl Peter Boggs of St. Martinville, a licensed charter captain in Grand Isle