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Teacher of the Year

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Lauren Rentrop of Berwick Junior High School, Teacher of the Year for 2017-18, placed first at Veterans of Foreign War Post 4222 and first in District Three. Shown from left are Post 4222 Commander Kenneth Lodrigue, Rentrop, Vice Commander Bobby Boudreaux and Auxiliary President Claudia Boudreaux.

Radio logs for Feb. 6

The following are the radio dispatch logs from the Morgan City Police Department. To report unlawful or suspicious activity, call the police department at 985-380-4605.

Monday, Feb. 5

7:10 a.m. 100 block of Railroad Avenue; Theft.

9:24 a.m. 1600 block of Front Street; Disturbance.

9:45 a.m. 900 block of Willard Street; Assistance.

10:50 a.m. 800 block of Hilda Street; Medical.

10:52 a.m. 6400 block of La. 182; Accident.

11:13 a.m. 1100 block of Marguerite Street; Harassment.

11:19 a.m. 300 block of Egle Street; Alarm.

12:04 p.m. 1200 block of Victor II Boulevard; Assistance.

12:45 p.m. 7200 block of La. 182; Welfare check.

1 p.m. 1900 block of Federal Avenue; Medical.

1:53 p.m. 7200 block of La. 182; Medical.

1:55 p.m. 6100 block of La. 182; Traffic incident.

2:08 p.m. 2300 block of Federal Avenue; Criminal damage to property.

3 p.m. 2300 block of Sixth Street; Criminal damage to property.

3:16 p.m. 800 block of Roderick Street; Phone harassment.

4:38 p.m. Belanger and Second streets; Animal.

4:39 p.m. Shaw and Maple streets; Disturbance.

5:41 p.m. 800 block of Ditch Avenue; Disturbance.

6:24 p.m. 1600 block of Front Street; Patrol request.

7:11 p.m. Sixth and Marguerite streets; Traffic incident.

7:16 p.m. 100 block of Eleventh Street; Complaint.

7:46 p.m. 1000 block of La. 70; Complaint.

7:49 p.m. 1100 block of Marguerite Street; Complaint.

7:50 p.m. 200 block of Wren Street; Juvenile problems.

7:53 p.m. 7200 block of La. 182; Complaint.

8:10 p.m. 7300 block of La. 182; Alarm.

8:12 p.m. 1000 block of Brashear Avenue; Animal complaint.

8:15 p.m. 600 block of Egle Street; Complaint.

9:50 p.m. 600 block of Willow Street; Animal complaint.

10:05 p.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Lost and found.

10:38 p.m. 900 block of Duke Street; Residential burglary.

Tuesday, Feb. 6

12:05 a.m. 7400 block of La. 182; Arrest.

1:01 a.m. 6300 block of La. 182; Arrest.

1:14 a.m. 6300 block of La. 182; Complaint.

1:16 a.m. Marguerite and Seventh streets; Arrest.

1:54 a.m. 6300 block of La. 182; Hit and run.

4:04 a.m. 1000 block of Brashear Avenue; Complaint.

District judge: State budget, justice reform pose challenges

Louisiana’s budget woes and the 2017 justice reform package are posing big challenges to the state’s district courts, a district judge said Monday. Judge Vincent Borne was guest speaker during a St. Mary Industrial Group luncheon at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City. He serves as Division C judge in Louisiana’s 16th Judicial District, which covers St. Mary, St. Martin and Iberia parishes. There are eight judges in the district. Borne, a lifelong Franklin resident, took office as a judge in 2013 after having previously been an assistant district attorney for 16 years. He discussed the potential effects of the ...

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Police Reports 2-6-18

Chitimacha Police Chief Hal Hutchinson reported the following arrests:
Daniel Bozeman, 48, of La Neuville Road, Lafayette, was arrested Saturday on the charge of theft, and was transported to the parish jail.
Officers responded to a tribal business in reference to a theft. During the investigation, it was learned that Bozeman had committed the theft, and he was arrested.
Terrance Ledet, 28, of Kern Street, Jeanerette, was arrested Monday for an Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office Warrant for the charge of domestic abuse battery, and he was transported to the parish jail.
Officers observed a vehicle parked partially in the roadway. After making contact with the driver, Ledet, it was learned that he had an active warrant, and he was arrested.
Franklin Police Chief Sabria McGuire reported the following arrests:
Tyrus Polidore, 27, of Roys Lane, Franklin, was arrested Monday at 8:38 p.m. on a warrant for 16th Judicial District Court for failure to appear on the charge of criminal neglect of family, a warrant for St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office for charges of failure to provide notification as a sex offender and failure to pay annual sex offender registration fee, and a warrant for Third Ward City Court for failure to appear on charges of remaining where forbidden and open container.
Polidore was booked, processed, and held with no bond set at the time of press release.
Mariah Moore, 29, of Locust Street, Franklin, was arrested Monday at 11:55 p.m. on the charge of possession of marijuana. Moore was booked, processed, and held on a $2,000 bond.

St. Mary Parish Junior Fair and Livestock Show

John Sonnier Jr., Landon Gahn and Reid Lovell were awarded respectively: Champion Meat Pen of Rabbits, Best in Show Rabbit and Champion Gray Brahman Bull during the St. Mary Parish Junior Fair and Livestock Show held Saturday, Jan. 20, at Franklin Senior High School.

District foes MCHS, Lutcher to meet in postseason

The Morgan City High School girls soccer team will open the Division III playoffs Thursday against a familiar foe as the Lady Tigers travel to meet district opponent Lutcher in a 6 p.m. contest.
Morgan City and Lutcher met twice this season with the teams playing to a scoreless tie in Lutcher before Lutcher defeated Morgan City 3-1 in Morgan City about a week ago.
Morgan City enters the playoffs as the No. 17 seed with a record of 6-13-2, while Lutcher is 7-13-3.
The Lady Tigers fielded a young team this season with just three seniors.
“I think we did well,” Morgan City Coach Trevor Patterson said. “Unfortunately, with … Vandebilt and … E.D. White, even though E.D. White isn’t not like they used to be, is a hard division.”
However, the team exceeded its coach’s expectations in terms of playoff seeding.
“Did I think that we would be a (17)? No, I thought we would be where we were last year in the 20s, so we actually did better than we did last year,” Patterson said.
As for Lutcher, Patterson said, the squad is a solid one. However, he said he told his team that Lutcher has problems finishing like E.D. White and Vandebilt Catholic.
“Our key is just to watch their speed and getting through,” he said. “The two goals they scored over here were both on one side, and that’s just having a mental error and backing up, and they were just able to toe-poke it in. It wasn’t a true kick like you see the quality teams that can score from 30 yards out or whatever, so I told them that’s what we need to do. Just contain them.”
Lutcher had the ball more both times the teams played this year, Patterson said.
As for the Lady Tigers, who Patterson lauded for not quitting in games, the Morgan City coach said he thought freshman goalie Brynn Stephens would have a crucial role Thursday.
“I told her, it takes one person to make a difference in the game, and I’m feeling that tomorrow she will make that difference for us,” he said.

False tsunami alert sent to some people in St. Mary

Some people in St. Mary Parish received a weather alert Tuesday morning that falsely stated there was a tsunami warning for the area, said Duval Arthur, parish homeland security and emergency preparedness director.

“I don’t know how we got included in that,” Arthur said.

But St. Mary wasn’t the only area to receive the false notification.

A routine National Weather Service test on Tuesday resulted in a false push notification to mobile phones about a tsunami warning, giving jolt to many residents on the East Coast, according to an Associated Press article.

A glitch meant some people received what looked like an actual warning, NWS meteorologist Hendricus Lulofs said. The National Weather Service is trying to sort what went wrong, he said in the article.

Officials said it appeared to be an issue with the popular Accuweather app. Accuweather didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment, the Associated Press reported.

KQKI 95.3 FM Sales Manager Brady Borel , who received the message on his phone, said, at first, he was “shocked and somewhat concerned.”

“But knowing a tsunami warning is usually preceded by seismic activity really made me have second thoughts,” Borel said. “It didn’t take me long to realize that it was either a hoax or false report since I only received the alert from a single source.”

Borel posted a Facebook item that named Patterson as included in the tsunami warning.

Arthur said St. Mary Parish does have a tsunami plan in its emergency operating plan. An earthquake involving an island in the Caribbean “could cause a tidal wave … or tsunami,” Arthur said.

“Louisiana being at or below sea level, we could certainly feel the pangs of that,” he said.

Patterson holds fall sports awards ceremony

Patterson High School honored its athletes in football, volleyball, swimming and cheerleading during an awards ceremony at the school Tuesday. In addition to letterman awards, academic and athletic all-district patches were distributed along with all-state recognition. Below is a list of the volleyball and football awards: Volleyball —All-District: Tapanga Haven (honorable mention), Katelyn Larson (honorable mention), Kara Lawrence (honorable mention), Briyanna Butler (honorable mention) and Gabrielle Marcel (honorable mention). —Academic All-District: Haven and Madison Paul. Football —All-District: Dajon Richard (first team), Dontre Nicholas (first team), Zach Burke (first team), Deondre Diggs (first team), Treylon Bennett (first team), Jaymioun Butler (first team), Irvin Celestine (second team), Brad ...

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CCHS honors volleyball and football teams

Central Catholic High School honored its football and volleyball award winners during a ceremony at the school Wednesday. Below is a list of the awards: Football —Senior Plaques: Braxton Alcina, Cy Colgin, Ethan Whittington, Chris Singleton, Cade Minton, Dominic Skipper, Isiah Skipper, Tyler Longman, Cooper LeBlanc, Tyler O’con, Beau Bordelon, Graham Copeland and Matthew Guarisco. —All-District: Singleton (first team), DeDe Gant (first team), Nathan Hebb (first team), Brooks Thomas (first team), Whittington (first team), LeBlanc (first team), Minton (second team), Kaden Scott (second team), Michael-Anthony Hill (second team), Cade Booty (second team), Davidyione Bias (second team), Dominic Skipper (second team), Hunter Daigle (second team),

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