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.
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.