Central City News

The East Baton Rouge Republican Parish Executive Committee voted to endorse Donald J. Trump for the Republican nomination for President at its meeting last Thursday.  The committee spent most of the meeting planning how to raise its budget for the upcoming election season.  The party will be helping with Republican campaigns for President and Vice President, U.S. Senate, […]

Metro Councilman John Delgado brought his campaign for Mayor-President to the Ronald Reagan Newsmaker Luncheon Tuesday and outlined his plans for City-Parish government, especially fighting crime.  He said crime is the No. 1 problem facing the parish, and he wants to add 200 officers to the Baton Rouge Police Department. The outspoken Republican who takes […]

In analyzing the general election in November, it is important to keep our eyes on the ball. While the media will talk incessantly about women and Latinos, they are really not what the election will be about at all. The general election is fought state by state. You have to look at the swing states […]

LEMONADE DAY — More than 200 Central students participated in Lemonade Day Saturday where they learned entrepreneurship as they built competing lemonade stands.  The event, which is sponsored by Raisin’ Canes, provokes intense, though friendly, competition.

Central High School students who had the highest GPA’s and highest scores on the ACT test were honored at the school’s annual Academic Awards Banquet last Tuesday at Central Middle School.  Students and their parents were on hand to receive the honors. Receiving special recognition was Justin Nijoka, a sophomore who earned a 34 on […]

Nearly 300 seniors at Central High School will cross the stage to receive their diplomas at 6 p.m. Friday, May 20 at Bethany Church in Baker. It is the largest class to graduate since creation of the Central Community School District in 2007.  More than 4,000 people are expected to fill Bethany’s sanctuary. Kylie Yglesias […]

Ground-breaking is tentatively set for June for the Settlement on Shoe Creek, a Traditional Neighborhood Development, or TND, planned for Sullivan Road in Central. The development will span 150 acres, nearly a quarter of a square mile.  Prescott Bailey, president of Southern Lifestyle Development, says the project will include 479 homes, 250 multifamily units, 100 […]

Lane Regional Medical Center was named “2016 Acute Care Hospital of the Year” (61-160 beds) at the 15th Annual Nightingale Awards held on March 5 at L’Auberge in Baton Rouge. This is the second time the hospital has received this award. The annual awards are sponsored by the Louisiana Nurses Foundation and the Louisiana State […]

Four Baton Rouge area high school students have won an all-expense paid trip to Washington. Jessica Litloff of Holden High, Sawyer Welborn of Central High, John Wiese of Runnels Academy, and Kennedy Wilcher of Zachary High were the winners in the 2016 DEMCO Rural Electric Youth Tour Essay Contest. The essay contest gives students throughout […]

In July 1966, I was a 19-year-old student at the LSU School of Journalism. For the past two years, I had the privilege of having worked as a newsman and disc jockey at WLCS, the No. 1 radio station in Baton Rouge and then as a television announcer and newsman at the CBS affiliate in […]