St. Martin Parish President Guy Cormier was appointed Friday by Gov. Bobby Jindal to the state Water Resources Commission.
Cormier, who is currently third vice president of the Police Jury Association of Louisiana, will serve as a representative of the association on the 19-member commission.
Lafayette lawyers Gordon Schoeffler (left) and Joseph “Buzzy” Joy lead a legal team fighting for public access and improved water quality in the Atchafalaya Basin. (Linda Cooke)
“You cannot own a navigable waterway,” said Lafayette attorney Joseph ‘Buzzy” Joy after several slides showed NO TRESPASSING signs preventing fishermen from using some waterways in the Atchafalaya Basin.
Early voting in the St. Martinville city runoff election and a parishwide special tax election starts Saturday, April 19, and ends Saturday, April 26, with no voting in the intervening Sunday.
The announcement comes from Patricia T. Guidry, St. Martin Parish Registrar of Voters.
BROWN BAYOU IN 2011 – Just a decade earlier, this was an open steam used by commercial fishermen, sport fishermen, hunters and others to access navigable waters of the Atchafalaya Basin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit required this obstruction to be removed, but it wasn’t. Now the Corps has issued a permit to extend this road permanently. (Atchafalaya Basinkeeper)
Commercial fishermen from St. Martin Parish are among those trying to force oil and gas interests in the Atchafalaya Basin to operate without permanent roads.
HPD officers clocking traffic off the Basin bridge.
As the Teche News goes to press, the Louisiana Legislature was settling the question of which communities are operating a “speed trap.”
House Bill 961 by state Rep. Steve E. Pylant of Winnsboro includes this definition: