LSU's No. 1 fan, Don Long, isn't one to rest on his laurels. The 73 year-old Lafayette resident, known as "Dandy Don," has long endeared himself to fellow Tiger fans with his comprehensive Web site, dandydon.com, that feeds the insatiable appetite for LSU sports info. On Wednesday, Dandy Don launched a new and improved site with even more data. The site now has added game schedules and rosters for all five major sports as well as a football depth chart alongside to complement the daily blog and other popular features like its list of Louisiana's top high school football prospects. Readers will immediately notice the site's cleaner look and new menu-based navigation that allows you to more easily peruse the 40 + pages.
For more on Dandy Don, read The Independent Weekly's 2006 profile, "Fever Pitch."
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.
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.
LSU's No. 1 fan, Don Long, isn't one to rest on his laurels. The 73 year-old Lafayette resident, known as "Dandy Don," has long endeared himself to fellow Tiger fans with his comprehensive Web site, dandydon.com, that feeds the insatiable appetite for LSU sports info. On Wednesday, Dandy Don launched a new and improved site with even more data. The site now has added game schedules and rosters for all five major sports as well as a football depth chart alongside to complement the daily blog and other popular features like its list of Louisiana's top high school football prospects. Readers will immediately notice the site's cleaner look and new menu-based navigation that allows you to more easily peruse the 40 + pages. 
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