Central City News

 Jane Zaruba, Darcy Giannobile, and Adelaide Zaruba, 4-Hers from East Baton Rouge Parish have won a trip to the 2019 National Poultry and Egg Conference Contest at the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville, KY.  The girls put in hard work studying for the Louisiana 4-H poultry judging competition and earned them a spot […]

Under LSU quarterbacks coach Joe Brady and his offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger of Central, Joe Burrow has developed into the outstanding college quarterback in the country. He is the odds-on favorite to win this year’s Heisman Trophy. For Steve Ensminger, it is just one of a host of triumphs he’s experienced since entering coaching.  Steve […]

Matthew Bihm, an outfielder for the Central Private Redhawks, will attend Tulane University on a baseball scholarship in the fall of 2020. He is a four-year letterman and has been a member of the All-Metro Team and the 1st Team All-District in Mississippi. Matthew is also an honors student with a 3.9 cumulative grade point […]

Two opponents of creating the City of St. George have alleged Sheriff Sid Gautreaux has a sweetheart deal with the City of Central that allows the citizens of Central to receive law enforcement free of charge. The Baton Rouge Advocate featured the allegations in a lengthy front page story last Saturday. Mary Jane Marcantel and […]

Perhaps attorney Mary Olive Pierson is stronger on rhetoric than on law. In any case, she has allowed Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome to place herself in an untenable and rather embarrassing position. Ms. Pierson has allowed her client to file a highly-publicized suit to block the incorporation of the City of St. George, which was […]

The City Council of Central honored Graydon Walker at its recent meeting for his long service. Former Mayor-President Tom Ed McHugh was on hand to honor his former CAO. The Council adopted the following resolution: WHEREAS, Mr. Graydon Walker has devoted most of his adult life to public service; and WHEREAS, On September 21, 1928, […]

Central High senior Faith Huguet was named the Wildcats’ 2019 Homecoming Queen in ceremonies on Friday, Sept. 20 at Wildcat Stadium Last year’s homecoming queen, Miss Taliyah Joseph, was on hand to greet the new queen. She is a freshman at SLU, majoring in nursing.  Members of the Central High School Homecoming Court and Queen […]

When then-Rep. John Bel Edwards was running for governor in October 2015, he agreed to answer a number of policy questions posed by the Central City News. Two of those questions dealt with the proposed City of St. George and the proposed Southeast Baton Rouge Community School System. Regarding the proposed Southeast Baton Rouge Community […]

There is really no mystery about whether the proposed City of St. George will be a success, and there is certainly no mystery about whether the proposed Southeast school district will be a success. We don’t have to guess whether incorporating a new city and creating a new school system in this parish can work. […]

The decision by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal, written by Judge Robert Downing, in the challenge to the incorporation of the City of Central, addressed most of the issues likely to be raised in any challenge to the incorporation of the proposed City of St. George.  The case, Devall v. Starns, was decided Dec. […]