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A GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY WAS HELD YESTERDAY FOR A NEW 90
MILLION DOLLAR TERMINAL AT THE LAFAYETTE REGIONAL AIRPORT. THE NEW
TERMINAL WILL BE 110 THOUSAND SQUARE FEET, REPLACING THE CURRENT 62
THOUSAND SQUARE FOOT TERMINAL, WHICH IS 60 YEARS OLD. AIRPORT
DIRECTOR STEVE PICOU SAYS THE WORK IS EXPECTED TO TAKE TWO YEARS TO COMPLETE. GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS, U-S SENATOR BILL CASSIDY AND CONGRESSMAN CLAY HIGGINS SPOKE AT THE CEREMONY.
Officials say “pillows,” each roughly the size of a small car, are their latest effort to slow erosion to Louisiana’s coast. News outlets reported this week that the rockfilled sacks are being placed by a crane along a 3-mile stretch of shoreline in Southwestern Louisiana. The state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority is working on the $34 million project protecting the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in Cameron Parish. Refuge spokesman Gabe Giffin says it’ll help stop erosion to the roughly 71,000 acres of mostly marshlands that had encompassed 86,000 acres nearly a century ago.
FRANKLIN POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR DARRELL HARRIS, ALSO KNOWN AS CHRIS LEMON. JEFF HORCHAK EXPLAINS WHY.
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The state’s overall school performance score for the 2017-2018 school year was 76.1. It’s down from previous years. But officials note that’s because there is a new scoring formula as the state adopts increasingly higher standards. Four of Louisiana’s 70 districts received an A; 35, a B; and 25 a C in Thursday’s data. Four districts had a D and two, an F.
THE ACADIANA SCHOOL DISTRICTS MAINTAINED THEIR OVERALL GRADES
FROM LAST YEAR, BUT EACH OF THE PERFORMANCE SCORES WERE LOWER.
VERMILLION KEPT THEIR A GRADE AND RANKED IN THE TOP FIVE IN THE STATE.
IBERIA, ACADIA, LAFAYETTE AND ST. MARTIN PARISHES, RANKED IN THAT
ORDER, MAINTAINED THEIR B LETTER GRADE. ST. LANDRY PARISH
MAINTAINED THEIR C GRADE AVERAGE, BUT UNDER THE OLD SYSTEM, IT WOULD HAVE RISEN TO A B GRADE AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE HIGHEST GROWTH IN THE STATE.
THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU IN LAKE CHARLES IS OFFERING A VIRTUAL REALITY TOUR OF THE AREA.
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR ANGIE MANNING SAYS VISITORS CAN
EXPERIENCE DINING, HORSE AND BUGGY RIDES, NATURE WALKS AND MORE.
SHE TELLS KPLC TV BY JUST PUTTING ON THE GOGGLES, VISITORS CAN LOOK
AROUND AND SEE WHAT SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS TO OFFER. THERE ARE ALSO 360 VIDEOS AT THE VISIT LAKE CHARLES YOU TUBE CHANNEL IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE VISITOR’S BUREAU.
THERE WAS A SHOOTING LATE YESTERDAY MORNING ON ANN DRIVE IN RAYNE NEAR E-A SCHOOL STREET. THERE WERE NO INJURIES BUT POLICE CHIEF
CARROLL STELLY SAYS SOME HOMES WERE DAMAGED. HE SAYS THERE WAS A
DISPUTE BETWEEN TWO GROUPS OF PEOPLE AND TWO PEOPLE WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AS PERSONS OF INTEREST. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS URGED TO CALL CRIMESTOPPERS AT 789-TIPS.
Louisiana has broken its record for adoptions of children from foster care. The Department of Children and Family Services says 912 children in foster care were adopted by 631 families in the federal budget year that ended Sept. 30. That’s an 18 percent increase from the prior year, when 771 foster children were adopted by 548 families. The boosted number of adoptions was attributed to extra staff support in the Thibodaux region; increases in families adopting more than one child, such as siblings; and stabilized financing and staffing for the part of the agency that deals with foster children.
