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Iowa Town Council candidates discuss local businesses, infrastructure, economic growth
IOWA, La. (KPLC) - Three Iowa Town Council races will be on the ballot Nov. 3. We asked the candidates about their backgrounds and what they plan to prioritize while in office. You can find their answers below. We gave all candidates an opportunity to answer our questions, but some...
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Holy Rosary redevelopment takes another step with $5.9 million small business center
The Holy Rosary site in north Lafayette stretches back over 100 years and began as a school educating Black girls. The school opened in 1913 to provide opportunities for children who had few. But when it closed in 1993, much of the campus at the corner of Louisiana Avenue and Carmel Drive sat barren.
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Metal Shark Wins Coast Guard Contracts to Build Patrol Boats for Cameroon and Georgia
Each contract includes a Metal Shark 38 Defiant patrol boat, transport trailer, spare-parts package, and operator training. The vessels will be constructed at Metal Shark’s production facility in Jeanerette, Louisiana. “These awards mark Metal Shark’s entry into two new markets while delivering new capabilities that will modernize the maritime...
Developing Lafayette
New $5.9 Million Small Business Success Center Coming Soon at Historic Holy Rosary Campus in North Lafayette, LA
A groundbreaking ceremony was held today, Tuesday, October 13th, for the new $5.9 million Small Business Success Center planned for the historic Holy Rosary campus at the corner of Louisiana Avenue & Carmel Drive in North Lafayette, Louisiana. The new 8,600-square-foot facility, a project by the Lafayette Economic Development Authority...
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She came looking for a job. 50 years later, she’s still part of the family at Ton’s Drive In.
Laura Williams was looking for a job when she found her way to Ton’s Drive In in 1976. Fifty years later, you can still find her scrambling eggs, flipping burgers and greeting customers at the longtime Broussard restaurant. Rosemary Girouard, who opened Ton’s Drive In with her husband, Alton...
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Louisiana's 'Rice Capital' Is A Charming Southern City With Antique Shops And A Historic Downtown
Tucked away in the Cajun Prairie is Crowley, a charming city that helped shape the Bayou State's early agricultural history. Crowley has a population of about 11,100, but it holds the distinction of being the "Rice Capital of the World." Rice is the beating heart of this city — it's adopted the fantastic motto "Where Life is Rice & Easy," and it hosts the annual International Rice Festival, Louisiana's oldest agricultural festival inaugurated in 1937. Without a doubt, rice is a way of life in this charming southern city.
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Celebrating the Sweetest Farmers in America
This National Farmer’s Day, we celebrate all the sugarbeet and sugarcane farmers who work tirelessly to produce America’s sugar. October marks not only spooky season, but it’s also harvest season for both sugarbeet and sugarcane farmers. While families across the country prepare for a Halloween filled with sweet treats, our family farmers are hard at work producing the key ingredient that makes it all possible.
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UL Lafayette researcher studies how water behaves on the moon to help future lunar farming
A University of Louisiana at Lafayette biologist's latest research could help scientists determine how to grow plants and irrigate crops on the moon. Karl Hasenstein, a distinguished professor emeritus of biology in UL's Ray P. Authement College of Sciences, has spent more than three decades studying how plants grow in space. His research, including experiments conducted aboard the International Space Station, examines how plants respond to gravity and how to produce vegetables during long space missions.
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3 years after a Tennessee group bought this Lafayette commercial property, site work has begun
Site work has begun on the commercial property across Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Lafayette. The 27.5-acre property at 4800 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, which a Tennessee real estate company bought in 2023, is undergoing dirt work and other horizontal preparation before construction begins, said Ryan Pecot with Stirling Properties, which is managing the development.
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LEDA to hold groundbreaking for north Lafayette small business center
The Lafayette Economic Development Authority will hold a groundbreaking for its Small Business Success Center at the Holy Rosary Redevelopment site at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. The center, which will be built near the corner of Louisiana Avenue and Carmel Drive, will connect Main Street businesses, microenterprises, and individuals pursuing economic independence through self-employment with the resources and partners they need for their businesses, LEDA officials said.
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Developing Lafayette
New 27-Acre Commercial Development Underway Near STM at Ambassador & Frem Boustany
The recent dirt work happening at 4800 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, at the corner of Frem Boustany Drive in Lafayette, is part of a new 27-acre, 5-lot commercial development by Stirling Properties that could eventually include retail, office, medical, and hospitality businesses. Over the past week, we’ve been flooded with a...