Tax for Morgan City first responder pay passes by overwhelming margin
Nearly nine in 10 voters voted for a half-cent sales tax Saturday for Morgan City police and firefighter pay and training.
Nearly nine in 10 voters voted for a half-cent sales tax Saturday for Morgan City police and firefighter pay and training.
Unveiling the Oilfield Divers Monument on Saturday in Morgan City are, from left: Johnny Johnson, co-founder of the company that would become Oceaneering International; George Williams, 89, who came to Morgan City as a diver in 1957 and co-founded Continental Diving Services; and Young Memorial diving students Chandler Kesler, Trey McDowell (partially hidden), Reba Kgoadi and Cornell Myers.
They were young men from all over the country, spending weeks at a time away from their families to do dangerous work.
A long-sought goal, to be recognized as a city rather than a town, appears to be within reach after the Louisiana Municipal Association's recently published directory listed Berwick's population ov
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