Central City News

From CNBC…  Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are offline. The websites and apps for all of the services were responding with server errors. Reports on DownDetector.com showed the outages appear to be widespread, but it’s unclear if it impacts all users or just some locations. It’s not currently known what’s causing the outage. All three platforms […]

From US News… Beijing appears to believe now is the time to test America’s resolve in support of the island nation as it boasts of its military might.  China flew an unprecedented 52 warplanes near Taiwanese airspace on Monday, Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense reported, marking a troubling escalation as Beijing boasts of sending record numbers […]

 There is a war on the drug Ivermectin.  The La. Board of Pharmacy under Gov. Edwards has attempted to ban pharmacists from filling prescriptions for Ivermectin.  The La. Department of Health has stopped allowing prescriptions for Ivermectin to be filled for Medicaid recipients. The Advocate has run many articles critical of Ivermectin, debunking it as […]

As children, we learned Hans Christian Andersen’s story about the emperor who had no clothes. The Emperor was not known for making wise decisions but for spending much of his time in his dressing room. If someone wanted to see him, his advisors would tell them he’s in his dressing room. The city where he […]

During a debate on whether students in Central schools should be required to wear masks eight hours a day, Central School Board member Dr. Keith Holmes told his fellow board members that 4 percent of the members of Central’s school staff had died because of COVID. He said the main purpose of masks was to […]

On Aug. 25, the Central School Board held a public hearing on a proposal by parent Kim Powers that would have protected Central teachers and school employees from being terminated if they refused to take a COVID-19 vaccine. Ms. Powers warned that vaccine mandates were coming soon and the board should act immediately. After an […]

 On Aug. 25, the Central Community School Board held its second meeting on the subject of whether to comply with Gov. John Bel Edwards’ mask “mandate.” Earlier in the summer, Edwards ordered public and private schools in the state to require students and teachers to wear masks throughout the eight-hour school day. The second hearing […]

A Central School Board member who led the fight to raise property taxes without a vote of the people in May is now running as though he never led that fight.  Mr. Phil Graham, who is running for the seat from District 4 in a special election Nov. 13, now says, “As your school board […]

Central Mayor David Barrow reports that the City of Central has completed nearly 53 miles of off-road drainage cleaning, clearing, and excavation in the past two years since July 1, 2019 across the city. This work includes numerous capital improvements projects. This work is in addition to normal roadside ditch maintenance.  These projects are all […]

Central Mayor David Barrow said the City of Central has signed an agreement with Compliance Envirosystems, LLC (CES) to perform storm drain inspections, documentation, evaluation, and line cleaning services for all underground drainage systems throughout the city of Central.  This means that all subsurface drainage pipes throughout the city will be evaluated using a zoom […]