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By Woody Jenkins, Editor, Central City News — CENTRAL — Playing in the toughest district in Louisiana’s 5-A football has a lot of disadvantages.  The main disadvantage is that it’s tough to win against two defending State Champions (Zachary, the State 5-A champion, and Catholic, the State Division I champion). It’s also tough to win […]

Our first member of the Homecoming Court is freshman  Lexie Guercio She is a member of our Central High School volleyball and softball teams, serves on the Student Council, and is very proud of her 4.0 GPA. She is escorted tonight by her father, Jason Guercio. Lucy Patterson  Next is freshman Miss Lucy Patterson. She […]

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EDITOR’S NOTE: For the 6th straight year, Central High Wildcat Football will be broadcast live by the Central City News.  We encourage you to go to the game and support the Wildcats.  But if you can’t go, watch the game live at Central City News on Facebook. If you attend the game, watch our video […]

CENTRAL — Braden Kelly is an incoming freshman at Central High School. He competed in the Governor’s Games at Tad Gormley Stadium in New Orleans on June 11 and 12 where he finished 3rd out 9 in the 800 meters with at time of 2:20.4 and finished 7th out of 22 in the 400 meters […]

After a nearly flawless performance at the National High School Cheerleading Championships in Orlando, Central High School came home with 4th Place in the nation out of 54 teams which competed.  Earlier, the Wildcats won regional championships in Jackson, MS, and Hammond, LA.   The team competed in the Large D2 gameday division as well […]

For the first time in Central High School history, the girls tennis doubles won the Regional Championship.  The tournament started on Monday, April 11 with 32 teams competing for Division I, Region III.  Central High School sophomores Madison Lumpkin and Annalyse Greely defeated four schools — East Ascension, Covington, Live Oak, and Walker — to […]

Kaiden Lang and Luke Miller are Central High Schools’s 2022 LHSPLA Qualifiers for LSHAA State Powerlifting Championships scheduled for March 25 and 26 at ULM Fant-Ewing Coliseum in Monroe, LA. These student-athletes demonstrate true discipline and determination. Kaiden Lang was the 2022 LHSAA Regional Powerlifting Champion again, this time in the 275-pound class. Kaiden was […]

CENTRAL HIGH ALUMNI SEN. BODI WHITE CUTS RIBBON, THROWS OUT FIRST PITCH at the Central High baseball field, known as The Yard. The Yard has a new look this year, thanks to $440,000 spent for new turf and other improvements.  The Central High vs. New Iberia High baseball game was the occasion for the celebration. […]

 Sue Don Peel Kinsley was born in Jonesville, Louisiana, May 12, 1931, the third of five children. She and her family moved to Baton Rouge in the mid-1940’s for her father’s work. In Baton Rouge, she graduated from Istrouma High School and then went on to Hammond to attend and graduate from Southeastern Louisiana College, […]