Did the newly consolidated Drainage District No. 2A wait too long to close the Walnut Canal barge gate and protect Lakeside Subdivision from the effects of Tuesday’s 10-inch downpour?
The decision by Cargill to stop mining salt at Avery Island interrupts, maybe forever, an activity that has gone on there for a thousand or more years.
This past weekend’s elections in Louisiana brought with them the first official day of spring, one new member of Congress and a couple of local upsets.
As late as the middle 1950s the end of the trapping season was celebrated by an elaborate Trapper’s Ball that included the crowning of a king and queen, speeches by governors and assorted dignitari
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