Every demographic gets its month in the sun, and women celebrate themselves in March. The National Women’s History Project this year honors women who have taken the lead in the environmental movement. So it’s no surprise that the author of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, is the poster child for the 2009 theme: Women Taking the Lead to Save our Planet.
Here in Lafayette, the USGS National Wetlands Research Center is sponsoring an exhibit of “green” art. Works of art with environmental subject matter or constructs using recycled materials are being accepted through March 10. The show will open with an evening reception on March 16, filling the main hallway with everything from hanging glass fish to earthy ceramic sculpture. To enter artwork in the show or for more information, call Debbie Norling at 266-8500 or visit the NWRC website.
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.
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.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
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.
Every demographic gets its month in the sun, and women celebrate themselves in March. The National Women’s History Project this year honors women who have taken the lead in the environmental movement. So it’s no surprise that the author of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, is the poster child for the 2009 theme: Women Taking the Lead to Save our Planet. 
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