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It’s time to get out and give back. Woodlands Conservancy’s 2020 Hike- A-Thon is a new effort to raise funds and awareness for local land conservation.

At the September 10 Plaquemines Port Harbor & Terminal District (PPHTD) meeting, the long-imagined vision of a large, state of the art container terminal in Plaquemines Parish is one step closer to becoming a reality. The parish council, acting in their role as PPHTD, heard presentations from Sal Litrico of American Patriot Holdings (APH) and other port leaders on how the project could make the Plaquemines Port essential to not only the national economy but, ultimately, the international economy as well.

LLast week, Hurricane Sally threatened to crash right into Plaquemines Parish and all of southeastern Louisiana. That forecast held all the way up until Monday afternoon when it became clear that Sally was a storm with potentially devastating consequences for anything in its path. Fortunately for Plaquemines, the storm took a hard eastern turn, its western side barely tapping the parish at all. For such a low-lying, floodprone parish, this sudden turn came as yet another stroke of luck in this incredibly active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season.