Central City News

At 12:30 a.m., Half Dozen Prostitutes Working Plank Road BATON ROUGE — It’s a little after midnight on Saturday in Louisiana’s capital city, and prostitutes are openly plying their trade on the streets, especially on Plank Road in North Baton Rouge.Within a few blocks of the Baton Rouge City Police station at 4445 Plank Road, […]

GREENWELL SPRINGS — Gary and Marianne Chapman have devoted a lifetime to serving the people of Baton Rouge and Central — a total of 45 years — through their business, Plant World, 10131 Greenwell Springs Road.  They’ve been at their current location for 42 of those 45 years. Stepping into Plant World is like stepping […]

Capital Radio Wars Park IV — Afternoon Drive BATON ROUGE — For Gordy Rush, market manager for Guaranty Broadcasting in Baton Rouge, afternoon drive represents the largest audience of the day, and he approaches it as he does the other day parts.  He asks himself what local programming we can offer the people of Baton […]

BATON ROUGE — Supporters of the right to keep and bear arms scored big victories in the House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice at the State Capitol Wednesday. The committee approved seven bills strengthening the right to keep and bear arms and killed two bills which would have weakened it. The committee approved […]

BATON ROUGE — A survey of the top-performing public school districts in the Baton Rouge area — Zachary, Central, West Feliciana, Livingston, Ascension, and St. Tammany — indicates that only one of them has magnet schools. The one exception is Ascension, which has authorized magnet school programs on the west bank of the parish in […]

Can SE District Bring Families Back to EBR? BATON ROUGE — Supporters of the proposed Southeast Baton Rouge Community School District say the new school system can provide an outstanding education to children in the Woodlawn-Parkview area.  But they say it can help do something else as well: Begin to bring families with children back […]

BATON ROUGE — While East Baton Rouge Parish has lost children for generations, the nearby parishes of Livingston and Ascension parishes have been growing rapidly, and the number of school age children has also grown dramatically.  In Livingston Parish, the school age population (age 5 to 17) has increased from 10,929 in 1970 to 25,658 […]

From 1970 to 2010, EBR’s Population Grew from 285,167 to 440,171; Yet, the Number of Children in the Parish Actually FELL — BATON ROUGE — An analysis of U. S. Census data from 1960 to 2010 tells an amazing story of East Baton Rouge Parish’s disappearing children. Over the past 50 years, the population of the […]

Proponents Hope To Gather 3,500 Signatures for Incorporation Vote — WATSON — Neighbors in Action, a group of citizens in the Livingston Parish community of Watson, officially kicked off a petition drive Saturday to give voters in Watson the option to incorporate as a city.  The group’s chairman, Gene Baker, said more than 300 voters signed the first […]

CENTRAL — Central schools Supt. Mike Faulk said Tuesday that he has retained a national search firm to find qualified applicants for principal of Central High School and for  a new supervisor of curriculum for the school system. Faulk said the firm of Wray & Associates will conduct the search, interview applicants, and check out […]