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AT CITY COUNCIL – Baton Rouge attorney and St. Martinville native Shone Pierre offers compromises to allow the historic Mardi Gras parade to continue for its 55th year. (Karl Jeter)

City sued over Mardi Gras parade

Tue, 01/26/2016 - 3:14pm Ken Grissom

The Newcomers Club, facing an attempt by the city to cancel the 55th annual Mardi Gras parade, has filed suit in federal court.
The club’s attorney, Shone Pierre, in a press release issued on Friday, Jan. 22, wrote that the lawsuit will allege a violation of the First Amendment clause protecting the right of peaceful assembly.

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REVELRY RELEGATED TO HISTORY? – TV news and daily newspaper reports say the half-a-century-old tradition of a Sunday Mardi Gras parade in downtown St. Martinville is over. As of the Teche News press deadline Tuesday, we knew the event was in serious trouble, owing to a security consultant’s prohibitively expensive recommendations. (File photo)

Mardi Gras parade in trouble

Tue, 01/19/2016 - 12:36pm Ken Grissom

Sometimes it seems like the quickest way to start an argument in St. Martinville is to say the words “Mardi Gras Parade.” It definitely had that effect at the Wednesday, Jan. 13, special meeting of the City Council, and things have only gotten worse since then.

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