Visitors to Lafayette Consolidated Government offices on St. Landry Street will likely soon pass through a metal detector under the watchful eye of a deputy from the Lafayette City Marshal’s Office. The council tonight will vote on an ordinance up for final adoption that, if passed, would trigger an agreement between LCG and the marshal’s office to provide security at City Hall during regular business hours.
According to terms of the agreement, LCG will pay the marshal’s office $42,000 annually to cover salary and benefits for the deputy and will also provide the deputy with a car to be used for getting to and from the marshal’s office, but not for personal use. LCG will also provide the security officer with hand-held metal detectors. The ordinance also requires the marshal’s office to provide extra security during meetings of the Lafayette Consolidated Council.
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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