Central City News

CENTRAL HIGH VARSITY CHEERLEADERS –– The Central High School varsity cheer team completed their competition season in February in Orlando at the National High School Cheerleading Championships. The team returned after back-to-back wins the past two years. This year they came home with 4th place in the large NT Gameday Division and advanced to semi-finals […]

Todd Lasseigne, a star on Central High’s 2017 and 2018 State Championship baseball team, has joined Woody Jenkins on the Central City News broadcasts of Central High baseball. The TV coverage on Facebook averages 14,000 viewers a game. Jenkins said Lasseigne is a outstanding addition to the broadcast team. “I haven’t seen or heard a […]

On Monday, March 9, the Central Private Student Council will host “Central Private Backs the Blue Day and Memorial Volleyball Tournament.” The event is being held to show support for law enforcement, to honor our fallen officers, and to raise money for the purchase of Angel Armor (body armor) for area law enforcement officers.   […]

Jonathan Sumich will serve as King and Michelle Lewis as Queen of the 14th Annual Krewe of Central Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball Feb. 15. The event will be held from 7 p.m. to midnight at the CCA Gym at 10510 Joor Road in Central. Sumich is owner of Oak Point Fresh Market on Greenwell Springs […]

Courthouse intrigue and Baton Rouge politics are playing out in the race for District Judge for Division M, which will be voted on in the so-called “northern judicial sub-district” in a special election Saturday, April 4. The northern sub-district includes Central, Baker, Zachary, and the Sherwood Forest area of Baton Rouge. The district has elected […]

In 2007, a loose-knit group of Central citizens began supporting the new Central Community School System by attending school board meetings and volunteering their help in cleaning and sprucing up the city’s aged school facilities.  These ordinary citizens spent much of their summer painting and assisting in getting the schools ready for the fall semester. […]

Central High School’s new head baseball coach is no stranger to Central. A Central High graduate of 1973, Leo McClure has spent much of life as a player and coach in Central. And his sons are some of the most successful athletes in Central history. After finishing at Central High, Leo played basketball at SLU […]

The Central City News will resume its live coverage of Central High baseball this spring and plans to broadcast at least 21 regular season games in February, March, and April. The newspaper began its coverage of live sporting events with live coverage of Central High’s State Championship game in May 2017. That game, which was […]

Three Democratic candidates and one Republican made the case for their candidacies for Baton Rouge City Judge at the Candidates Forum held Jan. 28 by the Chamber of Commerce of East Baton Rouge Parish. To watch, click your phone over the QR Code on page 12. The election to fill a vacancy on the court […]

On October 13, I visited a bookstore in my hometown and a grocery store in my neighborhood. This is what I found on one day…  The well-known bookstore has a magazine section of more than 300 publications.  My grocery store’s magazine rack contains about 100 different publications.  I had hoped to find a magazine about […]