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11-12-15

AT AROUND 11:15 TUESDAY NIGHT, TERREL ALEXANDER ARRIVED AT THE TACO BELL ON KALISTE SALOOM ROAD, NEAR THE GRAND 14, AND DEMANDED MONEY FROM HIS CO WORKER BARRON BROUSSARD. BROUSSARD, WHO WAS WORKING AT THE TIME WENT OUTSIDE AND ALLEGEDLY GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH ALEXANDER. AT SOME POINT, BROUSSARD PULLED A HANDGUN FROM HIS VEHICLE AND FIRED TWO SHOTS IN THE AIR TO SCARE ALEXANDER. ALEXANDER LEFT THE SCENE, BUT LATER RETURNED. BROUSSARD HAD MINOR INJURIES TO HIS FACE AND ALEXANDER WAS NOT INJURED. BOTH MEN FROM LAFAYETTE, WERE ISSUED MISDEMEANOR SUMMONS AND RELEASED.

 

PROGRESS IS BEING ON THE NEW 2 ACRE VA CLINIC IN LAFAYETTE ACCORDING TO DR. JOHN PALMINTIER, CO CHAIR OF THE VETERANS ACTION COALITION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. THE NEW FACILITY IS SCHEDULED FALL OR WINTER OF 2016 AND WILL OFFER A NUMBER OF SERVICES INCLUDING PRIMARY CARE, X RAYS, DENTAL CARE AND LAB WORK. ONE OF THE UNIQUE THINGS THAT WILL MAKE THE CLINIC SPECIAL IS THAT PHYSICIANS RIGHT IN THIS AREA WILL BE ABLE TO COME IN AND OFFER SPECIALTY SERVICES.

 

THE CAJUNDOME IS PREPARING FOR IT’S MOST EXTENSIVE RENOVATION IN THREE DECADES.  JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.

 

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(AP)  At least one Lafayette City-Parish Councilman wants a truce in the festering feud with Vermilion Parish over the location of the parish line. The Advocate reports Councilman Jared Bellard submitted a proposed ordinance this week to drop city-parish government’s lawsuit seeking to void a 2002 agreement between the parishes on where the boundary should be. The proposed ordinance, which is up for a vote Dec. 1, comes after the state 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal last week upheld an earlier ruling favoring the Vermilion Parish Police Jury in a two-year legal battle in the dispute. Bellard said city-parish government has already spent more than $53,000 on fees for experts and attorneys and should let the appeals court ruling stand rather than asking the state Supreme Court to review the case.

 

(AP)  The City of Alexandria has taken advantage of lower interest rates to save money by refinancing a previous bond issue. The Town Talk reports Foley & Judell, LLP, the New Orleans law firm which is the city’s bond counsel, recently executed re-funding of Series 2008 sales tax bonds on the city’s behalf. After all costs were paid, the net savings was $671,551.87 over the remaining life of the bond issue. Grant Schuleter of Foley & Judell told the City Council that the refinancing involved no “extension of the debt” and simply reduces the annual payments. The Series 2008 outstanding bonds had interest rates of up to 5 percent, but the refinancing resulted in a “true interest cost” of 2.58 percent, according to the report on the refinancing.