Central City News

More than 260 seniors will receive their diplomas Tuesday, May 20 during Central High’s 101st graduation ceremony.  It is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. at Bethany Church in Baker.  Supt. Mike Faulk will address the graduates. It is Central’s second largest graduating class since the creation of the Central Community School System in 2007 and one of the […]

This is the first edition of The Central Wildcat, the newspaper of the Central Community School System. It will be published on the 3rd Thursday of each month from August to May during the school year. The Central Wildcat will include information on Central students and student organizations, athletics, faculty and staff, the five public schools in Central, […]

TOP STORIES IN CENTRAL CITY NEWS: • Washington vs. Ellis: Runoff Election Saturday for Fifth City Council Seat • Choice: Experience vs. Youth in Race for Council • GOP Backs Washington for Council Click here: https://www.louisianapelican.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CCN-5-01-14-FINAL-SMALL.pdf • Festival of Two Rivers Starts Friday at St. Alphonsus • Central Middle School Teacher Is Finalist for State Teacher […]

Voters in Central went to the polls April 5 and elected a new Mayor, Police Chief, and four members of the Central City Council.  However, the fifth Council seat was left unfilled because none of the remaining seven candidates received an outright majority.  The fifth-ranked candidate, Central Mayor Pro-Tem Ralph Washington, received 3,625 votes, about […]

Mayor-President Kip Holden was reportedly planning to hold a news conference last week to announce the annexation of the Mall of Louisiana into the City of Baton Rouge, which some believe would have been a serious blow to the proposed City of St. George. The same report said that opposition from some members of the […]

Growing up in the 1950’s as one of 10 kids on a small farm in Darrow, Louisiana, a mostly black community on the Mississippi River, I could never have imagined all the things that have happened in my life.  I certainly couldn’t have imagined living in a place called “Central” that is over 90 percent […]

Everybody who visits the Red Stick Farmers Market knows Francis Chauvin.  She’s the friendly lady from Hammond who bakes the best pies.  She’s also bright-eyed and eager to tell the latest news from Hammond, Ponchatoula, and the Florida Parishes. But not many who visit the farmers’ market know that Francis Chauvin is much more than […]

Voting is a right that I sometimes believe that we as Americans have taken for granted. Throughout our country’s history our people have fought to ensure every citizen has the right to vote. Sometimes we don’t appreciate the rights we have as Americans until they are gone. The importance of having voting rights became apparent […]

Editor’s Note: Danny and Janet Hoover live in a beautiful home that’s straight out of rural Louisiana.  Flowers are blooming.  Rows of strawberries are ready for picking.  The old barn and the milk shed form part of an idyllic setting.  Yet, for the Hoovers and their seven children, the last seven years have been a […]

Efforts to incorporate the proposed City of St. George have come under full-fledged assault in the current session of the Louisiana Legislature with a number of bills to make it more difficult for a new city to incorporate. Of the three major bills that would hamper St. George, two have been amended to make them […]