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For the 7th straight year, the Central City News newspaper will broadcast high school football to local and national audiences live on the Central City News Facebook page. Its first sports broadcast, the State 5A High School Baseball Championship in 2017 drew an audience of 93,000. Since then, most games draw 10,000 to 15,000, although […]

By Woody Jenkins  Dr. Clyde Lindsey, 99, passed away Tuesday, May 23, after a long illness.  The most outstanding high school athlete in the State of Texas in the early 1940’s and one of the foremost LSU athletes in the school’s history, he bypassed a career in professional sports in January 1947 to go directly […]

Central High School senior, Luke Miller came home with the Division I 1st Place Gold Medal in the 275 lb. weight class at the 2023 LHSAA State Powerlifting Meet. Miller broke the record for  total weight lifted at 1,785 lbs. He also broke the bench press record at 500 lbs. Luke pulled 635 lbs. on […]

 The Central High Lady Wildcats (23-7) won the Bi-District Division I Championship with a 3-1 victory over the Covington Lions in a playoff game April 14 at Central High School. The winning pitcher for the Wildcats was Cailyn Heyl. The Lady Wildcats are coached by Michelle Efferson. They lost the Quarterfinals 1-0  to Northshore Wednesday, […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor, Central City News — BATON ROUGE — Long-time Central High coach and athletic director Sid Edwards has accepted a new position as head football at Istrouma High School in Baton Rouge.  Coach Sid was released as Central head football coach last November and given an administrative position at the Central Office.  […]

By Woody Jenkins, Editor, Central City News — Catholic High head football coach David Simoneaux has been named Athletic Director for the Central Community School System and head football coach at Central High School. He replaces Coach Sid Edwards, who has been head coach or Athletic Director since 2007. Edwards is the winningest active head football […]

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 […]