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Saturday, November 16 Jambalaya Benefit 11 a.m. to  2 p.m. There will be a jambalaya benefit dinner for Central residents Rusty and Susan Jacobs. Susan has been diagnosed with ALS and Rusty is a disabled veteran and has been diagnosed with Chronic Debilitating Peripheral Neuropathy. The cost is $7 per dinner. There will be drive-thru […]

BATON ROUGE — South Baton Rouge will go to the polls on Saturday, Nov. 16 to choose a new Justice of the Peace for the area. The Nov. 16 election will be a runoff between Jerry Arbour and Larry Spencer, both Republicans, who are seeking to fill the unexpired term of Ms. Melva Cavanaugh, who […]

Central’s April 5, 2014, municipal elections are already underway.  Central voters will elect a mayor, five city council members, and a police chief. Mayoral candidates Jr. Shelton and Dave Freneaux have already put up campaign signs along Central’s major thoroughfares, and they are busy campaigning and raising money. Shelton narrowly lost the race for mayor […]

The Baton Rouge Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy got off to a spectacular start last month. The first-ever meeting of the organization was hosted at the Governor’s Mansion by Gov. Bobby Jindal.  The main speaker for the sold-out event was United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. More […]

Spc. Dylan David, U.S. Army, had been stationed in Afghanistan since January 2013 but arrived home in early October to his bride of two and a half years, Kristin Rogillio David. The first thing Dylan did was surprise his three brothers-in-law — at their schools. All three young men have a special place in their […]

The Central Community School Board is asking voters to approve a proposition on Nov. 16 that will allow the school district to borrow up to $13.1 million for a list of dedicated school improvements and expansions. The budgeted items include: •    Construction of a 9th Grade Academy ($5.82 million) •    Repair of Central High School’s […]

CENTRAL — CH2MHill has withheld a number of emails from the Central City News, despite an order by District Judge Kay Bates. During the discovery process in the case of Community Press, LLC vs CH2MHill, the Central City News learned of the existence of 63 emails responsive to its public records request. Pursuant to the judgment […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor CENTRAL — Central Mayor Mac Watts has repeatedly told the news media and the general public that he knew nothing about a political flyer helpful to his March 2010 reelection campaign issued in the name of the City of Central one day before the election. But public records and interviews with […]