12-5-23
A BODY WAS FOUND MONDAY IN RAYNE, ACCORDING TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT’S FACEBOOK PAGE. GERALD GRUENIG REPORTS.
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THE INCOMING LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT MONIQUE BLANCO BOULET ANNOUNCED THAT SHE WILL RECOMMEND PATRICK OTTINGER FOR CITY-PARISH ATTORNEY, PENDING THE APPROVAL OF THE CITY AND PARISH COUNCILS. OTTINGER SERVED AS CITY PARISH ATTORNEY PREVIOUSLY, BETWEEN TWO THOUSAND FOUR AND TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN. BOULET SAYS SHE SOUGHT SOMEONE WITH INTEGRITY, EXPERIENCE AND ABILITY AND OTTINGER’S NAME KEPT COMING UP IN HER DISCUSSIONS WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS. BOULET ALSO ANNOUNCED SHE PLANS TO RETAIN THE CURRENT FIRE AN POLICE CHIEFS.
JENNINGS MAYOR HENRY GUINN ANNOUNCED A NEW PROJECT THAT WILL LEAD TO A NEW AND IMPROVED AIRPORT ROAD AND AN EXTENDED ZIGLER MEMORIAL DRIVE. HE SAYS THE PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO INCREASE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR THE COMMUNITY AND ATTRACT MORE CONSUMERS TO THE AREA. GUINN SAYS THE AIRPORT COMMISSION, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND SEVERAL BUSINESSES ALONG THE HIGHWAY TWENTY-SIX CORRIDOR ARE COLLABORATING TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. THE MAYOR SAYS THE D-O-T-D IS DOING A TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS AND THEN A BIDDING PROCESS WILL BEGIN WITH CONSTRUCTION EXPECTED TO START IN TWENTY-TWENTY-FIVE.
THE NEW STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ANNOUNCED THAT THEY ARE HIRING THE FIRM, WILMERHALE, TO CONDUCT AN ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE POLICE. THE ANNOUNCEMENT COMES AFTER ANOTHER RECENT THIRD-PARTY INVESTIGATION OF THE DEPARTMENT WHICH LED TO A HOST OF REFORMS, WHICH WERE ANNOUNCED IN OCTOBER. ATTORNEY GENERAL ELECT LIZ MURRELL SAYS THEIR REVIEW WILL INCLUDE A TOP TO BOTTOM ASSESSMENT OF STATE POLICE POLICIES, PRACTICES AND OPERATIONS WHILE ENGAGING WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN THEIR INVESTIGATION. LAST YEAR, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ANNOUNCED A CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATION OVER ALLEGATIONS THAT THE AGENCY USED EXCESSIVE FORCE AND ENGAGED IN DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR.
A TEXAS MAN WAS KILLED EARLY MONDAY MORNING WHEN HE GOT INTO A FIGHT ON I-TEN WEST OF CROWLEY AND WAS HIT BY TWO VEHICLES. AN ALTERCATION IN A VEHICLE LED THE DRIVER TO PULL OVER AND HE AND A REAR SEAT PASSENGER GOT OUT AND A FIGHT BEGAN. ONE OF THE TWO, FORTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD DAVID VALLADARES OF SAN BENITO, TEXAS, WAS HIT BY A PONTIAC AND THEN A PETERBILT DUMP TRUCK. VALLADARES WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE BY THE ACADIA PARISH CORONER’S OFFICE.
BESE BOARD PRESIDENT HOLLY BOFFY HAS WALKED BACK AN EMERGENCY ORDER SHE ISSUED LAST WEEK THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS TO IMMEDIATELY APPEAL TEST SCORES. THE ORIGINAL PLAN TO ALLOW STUDENTS TO APPEAL WAS SCHEDULED TO TAKE EFFECT DECEMBER TWENTIETH. BOFFY SAID IN A NEWS CONFERENCE SHE SOUGHT TO SPEED UP THE TIMELINE BECAUSE SENIORS, WHO FAILED TESTS EARLIER THIS YEAR, WERE RETAKING THE TEST LAST WEEK AND NEEDED ASSURANCE THEY WOULD GRADUATE EVEN IF THEY FAILED A SECOND TIME. BOFFY SAYS THOSE STUDENTS CAN STILL APPEAL ONCE THE POLICY TAKES EFFECT ON DECEMBER TWENTIETH.
THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF FORMER CHURCH POINT MAYOR HAROLD BEAUGH GATHERED TOGETHER YESTERDAY TO REMEMBER HIM AT OUR LADY OF THE SACRED HEART CHURCH. BEAUGH, WHO SERVED AS MAYOR BETWEEN NINETEEN-SEVENTY-FOUR AND NINETEEN-NINETY-NINE, WAS ONE HUNDRED ONE WHEN HE DIED LAST MONTH. THE MAN WHO SUCCEEDED HIM, ROGER BOUDREAUX, SAYS BEAUGH WAS A KIND AND GENEROUS MAN WHO TAUGHT HIM EVERYTHING HE KNEW. THE CURRENT MAYOR, SPANKY MECHE, DESCRIBED BEAUGH AS A VERY BIG PILLAR IN THE COMMUNITY AND HIS ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO CONTINUE ON WHAT HE BUILT.
THE CITY OF SAINT MARTINVILLE IS UNDER A BOIL ADVISORY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. THAT’S BECAUSE WATER WAS SHUT DOWN FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON TO MAKE EMERGENCY REPAIRS. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT ALL CONSUMERS DISINFECT THEIR WATER FOR DRINKING, FOOD PREPARATION, BRUSHING TEETH AND MAKING ICE. THAT MEANS BOILING WATER FOR AT LEAST ONE FULL MINUTE IN A ROLLING BOIL.
