March madness kicks off early in Lafayette, which will once again host
the Louisiana High School Athletic Association’s Top 28 boys’ high
school basketball tournament. LHSAA has just released the brackets for
the tournamentt. Acadiana teams looking to make the cut
this year include Lafayette
High, which survived yesterday’s overtime scare against Brother Martin. Ranked as a No. 2 seed, Lafayette High represents the
city’s
best chance of having a team make the 5A class finals in more than 20
years.
Other Acadiana teams vying for state titles include Northside and
Opelousas
High Schools, No. 5 and No.6 seeds in the 4A division. Catholic High of
New
Iberia is a No. 5 seed in the 3A division. And in the smaller Class B
division,
Episcopal School of Acadiana makes the tournament as a No. 6 seed. Click here to view the complete brackets. The Top 28 tournament kicks off Monday,
March 3 at the Cajundome. Tickets are $9 per person, per session, and can be
purchased at the Cajundome box office.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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