Central City News

Can you or an organization you represent save the Old Central Girls Gym?  It may cost several hundred thousand dollars. The Central Community School System is currently advertising for the demolition of several buildings on the old Central Middle School site. One of the buildings is the Old Girls Gym.  Before the school board considers […]

The effort last week to target Central Mayor Pro-Tem Ralph Washington and have him removed from the April 5 election ballot is something many in Central are still contemplating. Why was he targeted for supposedly failing to pay a questionable $100 fine from the Board of Ethics for late filing of a campaign finance report […]

The Republican Women of Central held a candidates’ forum at the Central High Auditorium on Monday, Feb. 17. They heard from one candidate for Mayor, one candidate for Police Chief, and nine candidates for City Council. The other candidates had other conflicting events. Despite instructions to candidates to keep it positive and not attack their […]

Qualifying opened on Wednesday, Feb. 12 for candidates seeking to run in Central’s municipal elections, which are scheduled for Saturday, April 5.  Clerk of Court Doug Welborn accepted papers from Central candidates on the first day of qualifying.  By 12 noon, 14 candidates had qualified for Mayor, Police Chief, and five seats on the Central […]

Two-term City Councilman Aaron Moak will seek reelection to the governing body of the state’s 13th-largest city in the April 5 election. “After eight years of service to the people of Central, I have decided to run for another term as City Councilman,” Moak said in announcing his candidacy.  “I have not made this decision […]

Jason Ellis has issued the following statement in connection with his candidacy for the City Council in Central: “Hello my name is Jason Ellis I am a Central High School graduate and have been married to my best friend Kim Ellis for 7 years. We have one child Jackson and our second son is due […]

Central businessman and physical therapist Al C. Moreau, III, PT, has been elected chairman of the Louisiana Physical Therapy Board of Examiners, the state board which regulates physical therapists in Louisiana. Moreau was appointed to the board by Gov Bobby Jindal on Nov. 18, 2010, for a three-year term and reappointed to serve a second […]

For most of his career, he’s been a one-man law firm. Some would say a “one-man army”! A few years ago, one of his daughters, Sacha Tessier, joined him. After 40 years of practicing law, Alex St. Amant still works in the same modest 800-square-foot office on North Boulevard he’s been renting from his father […]

The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish has endorsed Shane Evans for one of five seats on the Central City Council.  Here are some of his public comments during this campaign: • “I grew up in Central and worked in my mother’s shop, Laura’s Jewelers, and I’m still her goldsmith.  At the age of […]

The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish has endorsed John Vance for one of five seats on the Central City Council.  Here are some of the public comments he has made in recent weeks: • “I’m not a native of Central but my wife is.  We moved here 10 years ago to get back […]