Central City News

Mayor Wade Evans delivered the 2025 State of the City address to the Central Chamber of Commerce, highlighting a year of intentional progress, infrastructure investment, and forward-looking planning for the City of Central. The mayor spoke to a packed house at the Bennett Barn, a meeting facility at 15194 Joor Road. Evans emphasized that the […]

The sprawling 5th Congressional District of Louisiana goes from the eastern portion of the City of St. George, up to the City of Central, east across the Florida Parishes and then up to Northeast Louisiana.  It is a vast area larger that several states.  It varies from wealthy suburbs to small towns to farm country […]

The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish held a news conference last week endorsing Monique Appeaning for the Republican nomination for United States Congress from the 6th District of Louisiana. Republican and no party voters can go to the polls Saturday, May 16 to select the Republican nominee who will face incumbent Democratic Congressman […]

By Brent C. Frederick Civil Service Commission (retired) My name is Brent C Frederick, and I am retired from the State of Louisiana with over 33 years of service.  For my last 16 years, I was a Civil Service referee. In that capacity, I heard appeals of employees in the classified state service who disagreed […]

By Woody Jenkins, editor Central City News The Chamber of Commerce of East Baton Rouge Parish heard an amazing and deeply disturbing presentation Tuesday by Barry Hugghins, long-time chemical engineer, former chairman of the Groundwater Conservation Commission, and CEO of an important publicly-traded company. In the Central City News of January 2024, I wrote, “Carbon […]

By Woody Jenkins, editor Central City News The seven Newsome boys have lived all over the country. Four of the brothers followed their dad and joined the Marines. The fifth boy joined the Army.  The last two boys wanted to follow their older brothers into the military. Nearly 20 years ago, then-Marine Corps Capt. Saul […]

The City of Central has some of the best public schools in the state and something that is unheard of — property tax rates for the Central Community School District that are actually going down! In 2026, homeowners and owners of business property will pay property taxes at a lower rate than they did in […]

Central Mayor Wade Evans has announced his support for a plan that would provide permanent funding for the work of the Sheriff’s office inside the city limits of Central. Sheriff Sid Gautreaux is proposing the plan, which would guarantee law enforcement services in the cities of Central and St. George.  In turn, both cities would […]

Central City News editor Woody Jenkins said he will consider filing a Civil Rights civil suit against Parish Attorney Greg Rome and nine members of the Metro Council if they continue to attempt to censor the newspaper. Section 1983 of the federal Civil Rights Act provides civil and criminal penalties against local public officials who […]

Judge Johnell Mathews Wednesday denied an attempt by the City-Parish government to censor the Central City News and silence its reporting on the Metro Council’s slush funds. Parish Attorney Greg Rome and nine members of the Metro Council asked Judge Mathews to issue a protective order prohibiting the newspaper from making “inflammatory comments” on its […]