By votes of 704 to 403, and 311 to 189, a miniscule number of Terrebonne Parish voters Saturday approved renewal of taxes for Lighting District 1 and Lighting District 5, ensuring their continued ability to purchase equipment and services.
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Terrebonne Parish voters narrowly approved renewal of a tax that pays for recreation programs organized at the parish government level Saturday, and also approved renewals of taxes to pay for road lighting in two of the parish’s ten lighting districts and unseated a long-time school board member.
Terrebonne Parish deputies aided by Louisiana State Police detectives and U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested 26 people and are seeking an additional 25, in connections with drug violation warrants issued during the course of the year. There were five additional arrests incidental to…
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A 33-year-old Golden Meadow Man is in custody of the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office after he allegedly stole an ambulance.
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It’s no secret that the Nicholls volleyball team is struggling and in need of a drastic overhaul.
The vultures have been flying high in the sky above the LSU football facility for the past two seasons — ready to pick apart the bones of coach Ed Orgeron.
The Nicholls State University athletic department is bringing back men's track and field.
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The oil and gas industry reached a new peak today on the market.
Like everyone else during the 1980s oilfield downturn, Louis “Booga” Klingman got hit hard, and his Montegut grocery store that supplied groceries to oilfield vessels really felt the pinch.
It started with restorations of houses they would sell.
Obituaries
Joey M. Boudreaux, 54, a native of Raceland and a resident of …
Fabian Thibodeaux Whitney, 68, passed away Tuesday evening, No…
David Wayne Acosta, age 61, passed away on November 26, 2018. …
Earl Louis Brunet, age 81, passed away Saturday, November 24, …
Vivian P. Marie, age 74, a native and resident of Houma, passe…
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Miserable. In a word, that’s the best description we can muster for the voter turnout in Saturday’s election.
During his years of service as Sheriff of Terrebonne Parish, Jerry Larpenter has in many respects done an admirable job. His administration lifted the law enforcement agency from muck and scandal. As a young, eager law enforcement executive when he first took office, Larpenter steered the ag…
From William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” in Act III, Scene 2, we are left with the famous quote “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.” In the play, the words are uttered by Marcus Aurelius.
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