Good timing and commitment have worked in favor of the Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District Board. Another potential government shutdown will no longer threaten its sand dredging work. The port board approved the signing of a memorandum of agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at a special meeting Thursday and decided to give the Corps $1.25 million of its own funding to keep the sand dredging project going. The approval came just hours before Congress passed a stopgap bill to avoid a government shutdown that would have happened Friday. Tim Connell of the Corps said that the Borenquin ...