Accolades were handed out Wednesday by the Sun Belt Conference, and several Ragin’ Cajun football players were among the honorees. Guard Brad Bustle and center Chris Fisher (right; photo by Robin May) were named to the Sun Belt first-team offense, while punter Spencer Ortego was named a first-team specialist. Tight end Ladarius Green made the second team offense, joined on the other side of the ball by linebacker Antwyne Zanders. Defensive back Dwight Bentley and linebacker Grant Fleming earned honorable mention.
For more on Fisher and his future prospects, see The Independent Weekly's Aug. 26, 2009 cover story, "Big Fish."
After winning the Sun Belt Conference’s Offensive Player of the Week
award for a record six times this season, Troy quarterback Levi Brown,
a senior, was named Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year.
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.
Plains Exploration and Production, the Houston company Flores has been running since 2002, is building a deepwater Gulf of Mexico warehouse and storage facility on Bernard Road in Broussard.
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.
football players were among the honorees. Guard Brad Bustle and center Chris Fisher (right; photo by Robin May) were named to the Sun Belt first-team offense, while punter Spencer Ortego was named a first-team specialist. Tight end Ladarius Green made the second team offense, joined on the other side of the ball by linebacker Antwyne Zanders. Defensive back Dwight Bentley and linebacker Grant Fleming earned honorable mention.
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