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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, Dec. 30
6:01 a.m. 6400 block of La. 182; Complaint.
8:55 a.m. 1100 block of Seventh Street; 911 hang up.
9:10 a.m. 300 block of Pecos Street; Complaint.
1:41 p.m. 7200 block of La. 182; Disturbance.
1:55 p.m. 500 block of Roderick Street; Medical.
3:38 p.m. 1100 block of Levee Road; Suspicious people.
3:51 p.m. U.S. 90 East; Hit and run.
4:42 p.m. 7500 block of La. 182; Complaint.
6:15 p.m. 1300 block of Federal Avenue; Assistance.
6:15 p.m. 3100 block of Roselawn Drive; Fire.
6:15 p.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Juvenile complaint.
7:08 p.m. 300 block of Patton Street; Warrant.
7:23 p.m. 200 block of Pecos Street; Disturbance.
8:29 p.m. 600 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard; Complaint.
8:50 p.m. 800 block of Hickory Street; Juvenile complaint.
9:45 p.m. 1100 block of Railroad Avenue; Suspicious vehicle.
Tuesday, Dec. 31
2:39 a.m. 6300 block of La. 182; Suspicious subject.
2:50 a.m. Glenwood/Aycock streets; Loud music.
4:42 a.m. Federal Avenue; Stalled vehicle.

A Memorial Mass will be held on Saturday, January 4, 2025, at 2:00 PM at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Patterson, Louisiana, for Janet Fangue Coleman, 84, who peacefully passed away on Friday, December 20, 2024, at her home in Patterson. A Rosary will be prayed at 1:30 PM, prior to the Memorial Mass. A family gathering will be held at St. Joseph’s Parish Hall following the Memorial Mass.
Survivors include her sons, Kirk Joseph Coleman of Bayou Vista, and Eric Wade Coleman of Franklin; seven grandchildren, Meegan Ford, Mika Hunt, Mandee Coleman, Tyler Coleman, Cassi Carbonell, Erica Coleman and Eric Coleman, Jr.; 10 great-grandchildren; her sister, Karen F. Carte; and her two brothers, Kenneth Paul Fangue and Neal Joseph Fangue.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest Joseph Coleman; her son, Dwight Daniel Coleman; and her parents, Albert and Irma Verrette Fangue.
A native of Morgan City and a resident of Patterson, Janet was a graduate of Morgan City High School. She married the love of her life, Ernest J. Coleman, and together they raised their three sons in Bayou Vista. Janet was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and a wonderful homemaker and Nanny. Serving others and bringing happiness to their lives brought Janet the most joy in her life. She was a wonderful cook and was known for her delicious coconut layered cakes. She will be deeply missed by all those who were blessed to know her, especially her granddaughter Erica Amy Coleman.
The family would like to thank the wonderful staff members of St. Joseph Hospice and her private sitters, Amy, Bobbie, Jennifer, and Simmone for their compassionate care. Also to the church community of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Patterson, Father “B”, Miss Bobbie, and all of her loving and supportive church family who were always there in Janet’s time of need, especially, her dear friend Mary Richoux.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made in Janet F. Coleman’s name to St. Joseph Catholic Church in Patterson, La.
View the obituary and guestbook online at www.mourning.com
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Catherine Elizabeth Daigle, 77, a native of Memphis, Tennessee and resident of Morgan City, died Dec. 23, 2024.
She is survived by husband, Larry Daigle; three children, Annette Daigle-Denny of Mississippi, Denise Daigle of Napoleonville and Karen Daigle of Reno, Nevada; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and four sisters, Margaret, Linda, Barbara and Martha
She was preceded in death by a son, parents, two sisters and six brothers.
Services were Saturday at Hargrave Funeral Home. Interment followed at Morgan City Cemetery.
Hargrave Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Louisiana implemented new educational choice scholarships, accountability systems, and programs during 2024.
The Louisiana Giving All True Opportunity to Rise scholarship program, or GATOR, was signed into law this year to provide educational scholarship accounts to families across the state so they can have more choice in what schools their children attend.
The funds can also be used for tutors, online school tuition, curriculum or even to fund a hybrid program where a student attends a private school part time.
Although the program is a major project for the department of education, it doesn’t officially start until 2025 as some housekeeping still needs to be done. Every year the legislature will have to decide how much money is allocated to this program as they see fit, so it’s experimental at first.
EdChoice, a national organization, and the Pelican Institute, a Louisiana institution, both supported the GATOR program. Nathan Sanders, the policy and advocacy director of EdChoice, says Louisiana is the 12th state to go universal.
With Louisiana’s history of lackluster educational ranks, the Pelican State has also worked to improve accountability in schools and rework the systems they use to educate.
The biggest program discussed in legislative and local committee meetings was the Let Teachers Teach Program, which aims to help teachers focus on teaching by reducing classroom disruptions and unnecessary bureaucracy.
This includes shifting training regimens, paying for additional non-academic work, decoupling student behavior and the accountability system, limiting cellphone use in classrooms and abolishing antiquated lesson plans.
The accountability system has also been retooled, and with that, has been debated in every K-12 study group and public education meeting since the new leadership took over the board earlier this year.
Louisiana state Superintendent Cade Brumley said the accountability system was necessary to create higher expectations, make the assessment process simpler, and promote career and college readiness.
To do so, the system focuses on improvement cycles and coaching for the student to continuously get better rather than weighty emphasis on testing of satisfactory grades. It also places a heavier priority on career readiness, as opposed to fixating on college preparation.
Whether the new the programs are working is impossible to know because of the small sample size, but what is true is that Louisiana’s test scores have improved this year.
Louisiana students this year achieved the highest scores under the current 150-point system.
The 2024 school performance score of 80.2 improved by nearly two points from the previous year, a 78.5 score.
Louisiana has also achieved its highest national rankings ever, moving from 46th to 40th on the U.S. News & World Report Best States ranking.
Other studies showed growth in Louisiana as well, with the national report card saying the state’s fourth graders led the country in reading growth and economically disadvantaged fourth-graders improved from 42nd to 11th in reading.
ExcelinEd’s new Early Literacy Matters put the state at the top of a national list for adopting a comprehensive early literacy policy to provide students with the foundational reading skills to learn, graduate, and succeed.
This resulted in Louisiana students in kindergarten through third grade improving their reading proficiency by 2.3 percentage points on a literacy screener given at the beginning of this school year.
The overall score for these grades was 46.9 in 2024. First grade grew by 4 to 49.9, second grade improved by 3.8 to 54.5, and third grade increased by 2.4 to 54.
The progress doesn’t stop there. The state education department also released 2024 Early Childhood Performance Profiles Wednesday.
The latest early childhood data reveals a 5.49 statewide performance rating, indicating a 0.07 increase from 2022-2023.
More than 95% of early childhood sites are rated proficient or higher, with 91% of school districts rated as high proficient or excellent.
Brumley says the growth can be attributed to new practices.
“Louisiana students are benefitting from quality instruction, sound policy, and a return to basic fundamentals like phonics,” said Brumley in a department news release. “We’re seeing encouraging growth and must take advantage of this opportunity to continue aligning our state around what we know is best for students and teachers.”