With gorgeous spring weather tugging at our senses, Pack and Paddle is offering a boatload of seminars and outings to get people out of doors. Tomorrow is the first talk, a kayak fishing clinic designed to teach what rigging techniques and baits work in local marshes, and where to put your boat into the water. The state’s shallow marshes are perfect for fishing for reds in water so clear you can see the fish before you cast. On Saturday, Pack and Paddle offers a seminar describing five great hikes in Louisiana. Maps, hiking distances, how to run a shuttle and a slide show of the areas are on the agenda. While you’re thinking about the woods, the New York Times has a great travel piece on Cane River country , which describes hikes in Kisatchie National Forest , and a trip to Caroline Dorman’s home, Briarwood , near the town of Saline. Dorman was a forthinking conservationist in her day, preserving woodlands and rare native plants on her property. Now the Caroline Dorman Nature Preserve, 150 acres of old-growth forest, is a private research institute, but in April and May guided tours are offered on the weekends. April is the prettiest month to explore the wilds of Louisiana, so check out the paddling and hiking trips offered by the outdoors shop. Click here for their schedule.
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again, it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to go public this year.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
With gorgeous spring weather tugging at our senses, Pack and Paddle is offering a boatload of seminars and outings to get people out of doors. Tomorrow is the first talk, a kayak fishing clinic designed to teach what rigging techniques and baits work in local marshes, and where to put your boat into the water. The state’s shallow marshes are perfect for fishing for reds in water so clear you can see the fish before you cast. On Saturday, Pack and Paddle offers a seminar describing five great hikes in Louisiana. Maps, hiking distances, how to run a shuttle and a slide show of the areas are on the agenda. While you’re thinking about the woods, the New York Times has a great travel piece on Cane River country , which describes hikes in Kisatchie National Forest , and a trip to Caroline Dorman’s home, Briarwood , near the town of Saline. Dorman was a forthinking conservationist in her day, preserving woodlands and rare native plants on her property. Now the Caroline Dorman Nature Preserve, 150 acres of old-growth forest, is a private research institute, but in April and May guided tours are offered on the weekends. April is the prettiest month to explore the wilds of Louisiana, so check out the paddling and hiking trips offered by the outdoors shop. Click here for their schedule. 
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