KLFY-TV10 reported Monday that Evangeline Downs wants to use 12,000 square feet of the abandoned Wal-Mart building in St. Martinville for off-track betting. The building is owned by the city of Saint Martinville, which will receive a portion of the total profits.
Revenues from off-track betting could mean big bucks for the city, the station noted. In addition to sales tax revenue, the city and the parish will share 2 percent of the total revenue.
Evangeline Downs wants to renovate its portion of the building at no cost to the city and is ready to move in immediately.
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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