Seniors at Plaquemines’ three high schools have been on an emotional roller coaster since their final year in K-12 was cut short by the coronavirus in mid-March.
Even in the age of the coronavirus quarantine, petty crime rolls on.
A husband-and-wife film-making duo hoping to bring some national attention to Louisiana’s disappearing coastline found the perfect narrator for the issue in Plaquemines’ own Albertine Kimble.
Charlie Arceneaux was from New Orleans, but until his death on April 8 at the age of 97, he probably knew the land of Plaquemines Parish better than anyone walking the earth.
An employee at the Plaquemines Parish Detention Center has been arrested over an alleged sexual encounter with an inmate.
National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week was April 12-18.
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For over a decade, Venice Port Complex (VPC) has assisted the elderly and families in need in South Plaquemines distributing food baskets and frozen dinners at Thanksgiving. The current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic inspired local attorney George Pivach, II to organize a similar donation effort for the elderly and families in need throughout Plaquemines.
Avery M. Riley, Jr. grew up in Port Sulphur and attended Port Sulphur High up until Hurricane Katrina, and then graduated from Belle Chasse High in 2008. He attended Louisiana State University where he was initiated into the Theta Kappa Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Riley graduated with a degree in sociology. Following graduation, he went on to the Southern University Law Center as a part-time evening student while working full-time for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and the East Baton Rouge City-Parish.
While many small businesses ponder their fate as the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus take hold on the economy, one local business owner has taken the reins of this latest crisis with her usual determination to survive and thrive against the odds.
In an effort to assist communities across Southeast Louisiana amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Chevron’s Gulf of Mexico Business Unit has committed $350,000, in total, to Bayou Community Foundation, Northshore Community Foundation, Northshore Food Bank and Second Harvest Food Bank to supply resources to local families and individuals in need.
The Plaquemines Medical Center and Plaquemines Primary Care provided COVID-19 antibody testing on May 21 at the Belle Chasse YMCA in their medical mobile unir.
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