Dr. Charles Boustany Sr. died at his home yesterday. He was 79 years old. The son of the late Alfred Frem Boustany, a Lebanese immigrant who opened one of Lafayette’s first general stores, Charles Boustany Sr. also left his mark on the local community. After finishing medical school at LSU, Boustany returned to Lafayette where he opened a family practice on Moss Street, serving thousands of patients over his 40-year career. Boustany also served as Lafayette Parish coroner for 16 years.
A Mass of Christian burial will be held for Boustany at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. His son, U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany Jr., will deliver the eulogy. Visitation will be held at Martin and Castille Funeral Home on Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and will continue Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. until the time of the service. Visit the Martin & Castille Funeral Home Web site to view Boustany’s obituary and tributes .
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
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.
Plains Exploration and Production, the Houston company Flores has been running since 2002, is building a deepwater Gulf of Mexico warehouse and storage facility on Bernard Road in Broussard.
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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