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BATON ROUGE — East Baton Rouge Parish voters will choose between two candidates in the District 3 school board runoff in one month. Four candidates originally ran for the seat. On election day, incumbent Carla Powell got more than 4,700 votes, and Thomasina Joseph got about 2,800 votes, sending them into a runoff.
BATON ROUGE — The East Baton Rouge Parish Housing Authority Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on Thursday to launch an independent audit into an alleged misappropriation of funds involving its non-profit affiliate, Partners Southeast. The board retained certified public accounting and consulting firm Luther Speight & Company LLC to...
LSU Laboratory School announced the death of former football coach Willis Stelly.
Reese Landry, a 14-year-old from Prairieville, Louisiana is fulfilling her dream of visiting New York City with support from the Make-A-Wish Foundation and local CPA firm Mauldin & Jenkins. When asked, “What is the first thing that you want to do in New York City?”. “Food, like Little Italy,...
We are so excited to celebrate the grand opening of the Freeland Jackson Center. A heartfelt thank you to each and every speaker, community member, friend, and supporter who joined us to celebrate this special milestone. Your presence and support made the grand opening even more meaningful. The Freeland Jackson...
On Tuesday Ascension Parish Council’s Finance Committee recommended allocating $4 million, from the Mega Infrastructure Fund, for the Ascension Parish Community Hub project on the campus of River Parishes Community College. 88% of the $60 million project is being funded with state dollars, the 12% match requirement satisfied by parish dollars combined with $2 million from Ascension Parish Schools. The Hub will house a full-service YMCA which will house AP Schools’ Early College Option Program along with a Small Business Incubator and classroom space.
NEW ORLEANS — A Covington inventor has earned top honors in a competitive international engineering design contest for his proposed helicopter landing zone safety system and is seeking $75,000 in funding to develop and test the technology. Tom Cain, founder of Cain Global Innovations LLC and a volunteer with the Folsom Fire Department, won the Aerospace and Defense category of the Create the Future Design Contest in New York on Nov. 6.
Dr. Bridgette Webster, director of Mental Health Services for the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, is honored to be one of the contributors to a new national publication designed to strengthen school social work practices and improve support services for students. “Implementation Guide: The National School Social Work Practice...
