The Louisiana Board of Ethics has given Crowley Police Chief K.P. Gibson the green light to moonlight as a driving instructor, with some exceptions.
Gibson sought an opinion from the board on whether a defensive-driving company he’s considering forming could be on a list of similar companies approved by the Crowley City Court and other courts in Acadia Parish for traffic defendants ordered to take such classes. In a letter sent to Gibson last week by the board, the chief was told he can form the company and it can do business with jurisdictions in Acadia Parish, but it cannot be on an approved list with the City of Crowley or for people residing in the city limits of Crowley, since the Crowley PD would be “responsible for arresting offenders who violate the terms of their probation within the City.”
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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