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9-29-22

A LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT AUDIT WILL SOON GET UNDERWAY.  SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.

 

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A VIGIL WAS HELD LAST NIGHT IN SAINT LANDRY PARISH TO REMEMBER THE OPELOUSAS MASSACRE THAT HAPPENED ONE HUNDRED-FIFTY-FOUR YEARS AGO.  NEARLY THREE HUNDRED BLACK PEOPLE WERE KILLED ON SEPTEMBER TWENTY-EIGHTH OF EIGHTEEN-SIXTY-EIGHT IN THE DEADLIEST INSTANCE OF RACIAL VIOLENCE DURING THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD.  ROD SIAS OF THE SAINT LANDRY PARISH CHAPTER OF THE N-DOUBLE-A-C-P TELLS KLFY TV THAT PEOPLE ALSO LOST THEIR HOMES AND BUSINESSES ALL BECAUSE THEY WERE WANTING TO CONTINUE THE MARCH TOWARDS A MORE PERFECT UNION WITH VOTING RIGHTS AND EQUAL ACCESS TO EDUCATION.  THOSE IN ATTENDANCE AT LAST NIGHT’S EVENT LIT CANDLES AND SAID PRAYERS.

 

With midterm elections just weeks away, Republican Congressional candidate Holden Hoggatt has released a political ad attacking three-term GOP U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins and calling him a “fraud.” The 48-second video mocks Higgins’ attention-grabbing Crime Stoppers videos, in which the former sheriff’s deputy urged criminals of Louisiana’s Acadiana region to turn themselves in. The ad goes on to strike Higgins’ voting record as a lawmaker, accusing him of “abandoning hurricane victims” following a series of storms that hit Southwest Louisiana in 2020. Hoggatt is one of seven challengers seeking to unseat the congressman who represents Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District, which covers southwest parishes from the Atchafalaya to the Sabine.

 

THE PACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA HAS AGREED TO PAY TWO-AND-A-HALF MILLION DOLLARS TO SETTLE ALLEGATIONS OF VIOLATING SEVEN CLEAN AIR ACTS.  THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY BELIEVES THE VIOLATIONS LED TO A FATAL EXPLOSION AT A DERIDDER MILL IN FEBRUARY OF TWENTY-SEVENTEEN.  THREE WORKERS WERE KILLED AND SEVEN INJURED, AND A ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND GALLON STORAGE TANK WAS LAUNCHED INTO THE AIR AND OVER A SIX-STORY BUILDING, ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.  THERE WAS ALSO PROPERTY DAMAGE AND EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES WERE RELEASED INTO THE AIR.

 

TWENTY-TWO PARAMEDICS WITH ACADIAN AMBULANCE AS WELL AS TEN AMBULANCES ARE STATIONED IN TALLAHASSEE GETTING READY TO STEP IN AND HELP WITH HURRICANE RELIEF.  TRIPP BLANCHARD, ONE OF THOSE DEPLOYED, TELLS KLFY TV THAT THEY WILL BE AMONG THE FIRST TO DEPLOY IN SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS ONCE HURRICANE IAN MAKES IT WAY THROUGH.  HE SAYS, SINCE THEY’VE ARRIVED, IT HAS BEEN VERY FAST PACED, AS THEY’VE MOVED FROM LOCATION TO LOCATION TO FIND OUT WHAT ARE THE NEEDS.  BLANCHARD SAYS THEY ARE WILLING TO STAY AS LONG AS NEEDED.

 

THE PONTOON BRIDGE IN ESTHERWOOD WAS REOPENED YESTERDAY.  IT WAS CLOSED MONDAY AFTER A TRACTOR TRAILER RIG CRASHED THROUGH A GUARDRAIL AND INTO THE BAYOU.  STATE TROOPERS SAY THE RIG WAS TOO HEAVY AND THE DRIVER LOST CONTROL.  ENGINEERS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT TOLD KATC TV THAT THE GUARDRAIL WAS REPLACED AND THE CONCRETE DAMAGE FIXED AND THEY COMPLETED AN INSPECTION OF THE BRIDGE.

 

A new government report says oil spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. dropped dramatically from the last decade of the 1990s to the one from 2010 through 2019. It says the amount spilled and dumped in wastewater from drilling rigs and production platforms has increased because there’s more work offshore. It also says oil in runoff, largely from cars and cities, is the biggest source of ocean oil pollution, with natural seeps second and spills in third place. But it says hard data on oil in runoff is scarce.

 

ON TUESDAY NIGHT, A BUILDING IN VILLE PLATTE, WHERE THE FAMOUS KARY’S ROUX AND PIG STAND BARBECUE SAUCE IS MADE, CAUGHT FIRE.  IT’S CAUSED A TEMPORARY HALT TO PRODUCTION.  THE MAYOR OF VILLE PLATTE, JENNIFER VIDRINE, SAID IT’S DEVASTATING BECAUSE KARY’S ROUX HAS BEEN SUCH A STAPLE IN THE COMMUNITY FOR MANY YEARS.  THERE WERE NO INJURIES AS A RESULT OF THE FIRE AND AN OFFICIAL SAYS THE FIRE MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY DRY WEATHER MIXED WITH HEAT.