The candidates vying for the Dist. 40 state House of Representatives seat will air and share their views at a forum scheduled for 6 p.m. July 29 in the Opelousas General Hospital auditorium. The forum is sponsored by the St. Landry Chapter of the Louisiana Grassroots Lobby.
Ten candidates have qualified for the Oct. 17 primary: George Bourgeois, Allen Guillory, Bradford Jackson, Ronald Lavergne, Quincy Richard, Anna Simmons, Kelly J. Scott, Anthony Soileau, Reggie Tatum and Ledricka Johnson Thierry. Scott ran unsuccessfully last spring for the Dist. 24 state Senate seat now occupied by Elbert Guillory, who vacated the Dist. 40 seat to run for the Senate. Tatum is Opelousas’ city council member for Dist. D. Jackson and Thierry both ran unsuccessfully for the Dist. 40 seat. Simmons is the former mayor of Opelousas.
A Nov. 14 runoff is anticipated between the top two vote-getters in the primary.
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.
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