The Rotary Club of Belle Chasse celebrated their Installation of Officers with a banquet at Stonebridge Country Club on June 23.
The Port Eads Fishing Refuge could be in its last days.
With two members not in attendance, Plaquemines Port Harbor & Terminal District Commission opted not to vote on the port’s next contentious contract at its June 25 meeting, but one commissioner
The Plaquemines Gazette was awarded first place in General Excellence and first place for Best Special Section in the Louisiana Press Association’s (LPA) Better Newspaper Contest.
The newly formed ‘Plaquemines Parish Pastors & Preachers United’ gathered on Tuesday, June 23 at Greater Morning Star Church in Naomi.
Sheriff Gerald A. Turlich Jr. is proud to announce the recipients of the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office (PPSO) Employees of the Quarter from January - March 2020.
Plaquemines Parish’s first major civil rights protest in generations took place June 12 without a single violent incident or even a traffic stoppage. But serious allegations of institutional racism were leveled that will require more than one peaceful protest to resolve.
Each year the online environment for artists gets more crowded, forcing new artists to navigate a conundrum: How to get press without notoriety, and how to achieve notoriety without press.
Limited site preparation is set to begin in the coming months on Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG project after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted permission on June 15.
The day before the St. Bernard Parish Council was set to recognize The Couvillion Group for capping a leaking Taylor Energy well off the Plaquemines Parish coast, Taylor filed its seventh lawsuit to avoid culpability for the leak.
The Plaquemines Parish Council declared June 11 Ernest Wooton Day in the parish to honor the former Plaquemines sheriff and state representative who passed away on May 29. Council members shared their fond and funny memories of Wooton before presenting the proclamation with his family. District 9 council member Mark “Hobbo” Cognevich thanked Wooton’s family “for loaning him to us for so long.” District 2 council member Beau Black recalled how Wooton took him out to lunch after Black announced his intention to run for council and asked him “are you crazy” because, as Black stated, “he loved public service and wanted people to be in it for the right reasons.” District 1 council member John Barthelemy said he used to call Wooton “Wyatt” in their younger days because “he was quick on the draw and can’t be beat.” Others remembered Wooton for his sense of humor and his ability to maintain respectful relationships with people with whom he disagreed.
Sheriff Gerald A. Turlich, Jr.
7962 Hwy 23
P.O. Box 700
Belle Chasse, LA 70037
Phone: 504-392-1619
Fax: 504-392-7526