Louisiana birders are a twitter this morning, reading about James Van Remsen’s sighting of a Red-footed Booby at Holly Beach. Yesterday, Elias Landry spotted 47 Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks, 25 Indigo Buntings 2 Pileated Woodpeckers and 1 Great-Crested Flycatcher among other birds at Jefferson Island. Meanwhile there’s a lot of chatter about fledgling Mississippi Kites on the internet , where a team of birders is posting their counts of summer birds spotted in the state.
The objective is to develop the Louisiana Summer Bird Atlas, a project of the Louisiana Bird Resource Center at LSU. Birders have divided the state into quadrants, and are spending at least 10 hours over the course of the next six weeks counting species. The count will identify important bird sites and help with conservation efforts. The state has developed a birding trail as well, pishing binocular-bearing tourists to flock to rare bird hot spots. According to the lieutenant governor’s office, Louisiana expects to generate approximately $30 million in direct and indirect economic impact from bird and wildlife watchers annually.
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.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
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.
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