Central City News

CENTRAL — Six firms have requested documents necessary to make proposals to provide all city services in the City of Central when the current contract with CH2MHILL expires June 30. The City of Central is the only municipality in the nation that has privatized all city services and has a Master Privatization Agreement with a […]

BATON ROUGE — Bills to reapportion the Louisiana House and Senate and the state’s Congressional delegation have cleared the legislature and are on the desk of Gov. Bobby Jindal awaiting signature. The most significant development for Central is the creation of a new State Senate district with Central at its hub.  Designated as Senate District […]

ALEXANDRIA —  Central High’s Mark Klein is now on KALB-TV in Alexandria, and he has some colorful and interesting reports.  Mark, who plays in the Central High band, is well known in the Baton Rouge area for his singing, his band, and his thespian abilities.  Now every weekend, Mark heads to Alexandria to host his […]

CENTRAL — This weekend’s 2011 Cooking in Central drew thousands to St. Alphonsus to enjoy good food and fellowship and to raise money for worthwhile causes in the Central community.  Some of the highlights were the crawfish boil Friday night, this year’s great cooks, entertainment on the stage in the St. Alphonsus gym, and the […]

By Woody Jenkins CENTRAL — Times were hard when Will Easley was born in 1944 in the family’s small farmhouse in rural St. Helena Parish.  But times were about to get even worse. Will was the youngest of five children of Jimmy Jackson Easley and Jewell Kirby Easley. The house consisted of two rooms — […]

CENTRAL — Rev. Sam Raney has retired as administrative pastor at Greenwell Springs Baptist Church. Raney was human resources director for Entergy’s operations in Louisiana until he retired in 2004. He has been a member of Greenwell Springs Baptist for 26 years and joined the church staff as administrative director in 2007. Raney, a graduate […]

CENTRAL — Work is progressing on the $19.9 million project to replace the old, two-lane Magnolia Bridge with a new four-lane bridge, linking the City of Central and Livingston Parish. Two bents on the Livingston Parish side of the Amite River are complete, and a third is under construction, as the bridge heads west from […]

By Woody Jenkins. CENTRAL — Councilman Tony LoBue succeeded in convincing the Central City Council to reduce residential building permit fees by about 28 percent, but only after a last-minute compromise avoided a threatened veto by Central Mayor Mac Watts. LoBue said permit fees in Central will still be two to three times higher than […]

HAMMOND — Central students performed well in their divisions at the District Literary Rally last Saturday in Hammond. Central Private had 12 1st Place winners and 46 students in the top 10 in their subject: First place winners were Erika Wittenburg, American History; Paden Mouton, Financial Math; Jessica Creel, Calculus; Jill King, English III; Kimberly […]

CENTRAL — Three new residential developments and one commercial development underway in the City of Central were officially unveiled to the public on Saturday, March 26.  All of the projects were created by Central developer Jeff Couvillion. The ribbon-cutting presentations included legendary coach Skip Bertman, free refreshments, door prizes and tethered hot air balloon rides. […]