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Plaquemines Parish Arrest Reports

August 13, 2025Lamont M. Jones, 30, New Orleans: simple battery.August 14, 2025Tyrin Michael Reddick, 24, Buras: 2 bench warrants.August 16, 2025Antoine Mercadel, 37, New Orleans: fugitive warrants.
FROM A RECOVERING POLITICIAN

FROM A RECOVERING POLITICIAN

FROM A RECOVERING POLITICIAN

The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project was Louisiana’s largest-ever coastal restoration initiative, designed to funnel up to 75,000 cubic feet per second of sediment-rich water from the Mississippi River into the Barataria Basin to rebuild wetlands - aiming to restore over 20+ square miles of...
POINT OF VIEW

POINT OF VIEW

POINT OF VIEW

The Fall session of classes will soon begin at Nunez Community College. It is important to remember that Nunez is a blended institution. It teaches a full assortment of academic classes along with a great host of technical degrees and certificates.

Complexity Breeds Confusion

For decades, the Plaquemines Parish Government’s finance department would provide the newspaper a massive five or six-inch ring binder with hundreds of pages of departmental budgets. This process began long before computers, PDFs, and websites.
THE FORGOTTEN KITCHEN

THE FORGOTTEN KITCHEN

THE FORGOTTEN KITCHEN

I am an opera fan. My grandmother, my Nana, came to New Orleans from Palermo. She was 18 years old. She grew up at a time when opera was still popular music in Italy. As a young woman in New Orleans she sang with the amateur company that was the Italian Opera Company in New Orleans.
Dominique Seibert

Dominique Seibert

in the garden

Marsh Dawgs: Inspiring our Next Generation of Coastal ScientistsThis week's edition was written by Dominique Seibert of Louisiana Sea Grant Each year Louisiana Sea Grant, along with the 4-H programs in St. Bernard and Plaquemines, host Marsh Dawgs Youth Camp.