The city has begun looking for ideas to eliminate the ongoing expense of owning the 1830-vintage Duchamp Opera House. At the September 18 city council meeting, Dist.1 councilman Mike Fuselier said the time has come to rethink the city’s involvement with the historic building.
A casino operator who was denied a variance to reopen a truck stop casino on Mills Avenue has succeeded in contesting the refusal.
School board members are looking into the possibility of using metal detectors to screen students for weapons at the parish’s three high schools.
The issue was discussed during last Wednesday’s monthly meeting but taken under advisement for the time being.
St. Martinville – The 26th St. Martinville Kiwanis Pepper Festival begins Thursday, Sept. 14, at 5 p.m. with carnival rides for family night at the St. Martinville Festival grounds near Bayou Teche.
A team of LSU AgCenter researchers has received a four-year, $387,000 grant to evaluate the feedstock potential of energy cane and sweet sorghum with winter cover crops.
Closely related to sugarcane, energy cane is grown for the production of feedstocks for biofuels and biobased products, said lead scientist Brenda Tubaña.