Central City News

– More than 200 surviving members of the Istrouma High School Class of 1964 gathered for their 50-year reunion July 11-12 at Holiday Inn South in Baton Rouge. Activities began with an informal reception Friday night and ended with a formal banquet on Saturday. During the banquet, the group lit candles honoring 72 of their […]

Josh Walker has been named the Doc Broussard Athletic Training Student of the Year. The award is given to a student who shows exemplary performance in the classroom and in the Athletic Training Room. The award contains a full scholarship for 2014-2015. He has worked with the LSU Track and Field and baseball teams and […]

During the current 2010-2014 term, the Central Community School Board completed construction of the new $55 million school complete on Sullivan Road.  The school complex, which opened in 2012, includes Central Middle School with a capacity of 1,200 students from the 6th through the 8th grades and Central Intermediate School, with capacity for another 1,200 […]

Long before there was a Central community, there was the Central School at the intersection of Sullivan and Canal (now Hooper) roads. Central High was named “Central” because it was centrally located among the various one-room schoolhouses spread across the area. Gradually, the surrounding community came to be called “Central” — after the school.  First […]

By a vote of 6-5, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board has voted to reapportion itself into nine single-member districts for the Nov. 4 primary election.  Qualifying will be held Aug. 20-22. Under the plan, there are five majority white districts south of Florida Boulevard, three majority black districts north of Florida Blvd. and […]

Voters in East Baton Rouge Parish will face a ballot full of candidates for everything from Justice of the Peace to United States Senate in the Nov. 4 primary and the Dec. 6 runoff.  The process begins with qualifying, which will be held Aug. 20-22. Qualifying forms will be accepted from 8 a.m. to 4:30 […]

The Metro Council considered but did not vote on a proposed Gay Rights Ordinance at its meeting of Wednesday, July 23.  The proposed is likely to return to the Council’s agenda on Wednesday, Aug. 14. The ordinance purports to codify a new kind of obligation among persons — namely, the obligation not to discriminate based […]

We have the U.S. Constitution, the Louisiana Constitution, the Louisiana Revised Statutes, and our own East Baton Rouge Parish Plan of Government.  All of those laws grant to federal, state, and local governments a vast array of powers, but those documents also contain numerous safeguards that are designed to protect our rights. But what if […]

At Central Middle School open house, Jolice Provost of Central City News had her son Luc Alexander Provost in tow when a Central High senior came in the door with her sixth grade brother and asked for instructions.  The young lady looked at Luc’s schedule and asked, “Is that his name?”  Jolice replied, “Yes it […]

Dr. Jim Gardner, who played on Central High’s first baseball team in 1951, was on hand last Saturday to inaugurate the new lighting system at The Rock, the Central High baseball field. The event was the first Central High Alumni game, and it represented the first time in the 63-year history of Central High baseball […]