Central City News

BATON ROUGE — The nine-member Board of BREC will vote today on whether to raise property tax millages on property owners in the parish by $1.5 million.  The board, which has no official representative from Central, could by-pass the voters and increase the property tax without a referendum. The public can testify for or against […]

Zachary, Central Superintendents Tell Their Formula Leaders of Top School Districts On What Makes Great Schools CENTRAL — Only two men in the past 100 years have started new school systems in Louisiana and carried them through to success — Supt. Warren Drake of Zachary and Supt. Mike Faulk of Central. Last month, the Louisiana Department of Education […]

Harold Williams Wants Inner City Kids To Learn to Ride and Care for Horses To Help Build Personal Responsibility NORTH BATON ROUGE — If businessman Harold Williams has his way, hundreds of inner city youth will have the opportunity to spend time in the country and learn to ride and care for horses.  It’s part […]

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CENTRAL — Events coming up in and around Central: Saturday, June 16 • Book Signing • 1 to 3 p.m. Central resident and local author Dennis J. Dufrene will hold a book signing at Books-A-Million, 2380 Towne Center.  The signing will be for his book entitled, “Civil War Baton Rouge, Port Hudson and Bayou Sara: […]

Veterans Park To Be Built on Sullivan Road CENTRAL — The Central Community School Board and Central Veterans Helping Veterans have broken ground for a Veterans Memorial Park on school board property at the site of the old school Teacherage on Sullivan Road across from Central Middle School. The board and the veterans group have entered into […]

City Gets First GOP Municipal Executive Body CENTRAL — The Republican Party is getting organized in the City of Central in preparation for this fall’s elections with the appointment of the first-ever Central Republican Mun-icipal Executive Committee. Members of the body will be sworn in at 6 p.m. tonight in the Metro Council chamber at the Governmental […]

Chamber EBR To Represent Locally-Owned Businesses CENTRAL — Business leaders from throughout the parish are organizing the new Chamber of Commerce of East Baton Rouge Parish, and some prominent business owners with ties to Central are taking leadership positions. The new Chamber will be primarily for locally-owned, family-run businesses, according to executive director Bob Breaux.  Breaux formerly served […]

CENTRAL — The Central City Council approved a $6 million annual city budget Tuesday night but not before significantly reducing the appropriation for legal fees.  The line item for City Attorney, a part-time position, was cut from $85,000 to $30,000 a year and the City Prosecutor, who has tried only two cases, was cut from […]

CENTRAL — To friends who’ve known Dr. Kitty Ainsworth for most of her life, she is a natural leader who can be expected to pick up the reins as the new principal at Tanglewood Elementary School without missing a beat.  That is a tall order, since Tanglewood has had Louisiana’s top performing 3rd graders for three straight years.  […]