Central City News

With the temperature expected to reach 96 degrees, Central’s principals and teachers are expecting 4,400 students in grades one through 12 for the first day of school.  This marks the sixth anniversary of the Central Community School District’s first opening day in August 2007. The school district operates five public schools — Bellingrath Elementary, Tanglewood […]

Parishioners of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church gathered Sunday for the blessing of a new classroom building at St. Alphonsus School. Father Mike Moroney blessed the new building, which will house eight classrooms of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students, as well as an art classroom and a laptop lab. The addition of the new building […]

With Mayor-President Kip Holden in his third term and planning to run for lieutenant governor, speculation has already turned to the race for Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge in 2016. Names being mentioned include Sen. Sharon Broome, Metro Council members Joel Boé, John Delgado, and Tara Wicker, and Holden’s chief aide, William Daniel. Louisiana has […]

Because of new rules adopted by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association, private schools face the 2013 football season with uncertainty.  The state’s traditional football playoff system has been scrapped by a controversial vote of the principals who govern the LHSAA.  Starting this year, private schools and other “select” schools will compete for state championships […]

After gaining approval of a $165 million tax increase last April from voters in the cities of Baton Rouge and Baker, the Capital Area Transit System (CATS) should find itself “sitting pretty.”  But instead the government-owned bus company finds itself mired in scandal.  The legislative auditor is conducting an audit, the state inspector general has […]

Robert Mirabito, interim chief executive officer of the Capital Area Transit System held a news conference Monday to announce that bus fare money is missing and may have been stolen.  Mirabito said discrepancies between cash deposits and computerized fare collection totals go back three years.  In some months, the discrepancy could be as much as […]

KNIGHT OF THE YEAR — Wayne Messina was named Knight of the Year by the Knights of Columbus.  The award was presented by Grand Knight Vance Thomas.

Monique Cross, vice chancellor for academic affairs at Baton Rouge Community College, said Tuesday the college will begin helicopter maintenance training classes at a facility on Hooper Road beginning in August. Cross told the Central City Council it will be just the first of the training programs which will be coming to Central. BRCC offers […]

Cadet Mary Palasi was presented the General Ira C. Eaker Award by Louisiana Wing Commander  Col. Art Scarbrough at the recent meeting of the Capitol City Squadron. Following the award presentation, squadron members held a reception in her honor.  The Wing Commander said “Her service, dedication, and devotion to her duties were far above the […]

BATON ROUGE — Gordy Rush, market manager for Guaranty Media Ventures in Baton Rouge, has been named Louisiana’s Broadcaster of the Year by the Louisiana Broadcasters Association.  The award is given to the top owner or general manager in the state.  Rush formerly won the organization’s “Golden Mike Award.”