Bring the tally to four. That’s how many meetings this month have been cancelled by The Daily Advertiser’s failure to publish public notices. Following yesterday’s news that both the Lafayette Public Trust Finance Authority and the Lafayette In a Century Planning Commission meeting were cancelled because of notice failures, The Independent has also learned that the Planning and Zoning Department’s Hearing Examiner meeting was cancelled for the same reason. City officials have been bewildered and frustrated by the cancellations, which are required by state law if proper notice is not published in the daily journal of record. Yesterday, planner Cathie Gilbert said that the Planning Commission notice may not have run because the person she emailed the agenda to apparently no longer works at The Advertiser. The paper has been experiencing dramatic cuts ordered by parent-company Gannett.
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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