Central City News

Congressman Garret Graves, fresh off an historic victory in Washington, where he helped gain funding for the remainder of the work on the Comite Diversion Canal, visited the canal Wednesday. The project, which has lanquished for 30 years until Graves’ breakthrough, seemed to come alive as the second-term Congressman described the scene at the Lily […]

More than 400 teachers, administrators, and school employees gathered on Monday, Aug. 6 for the Central Community School System’s 12th Annual Back to School Convocation. This year’s event was held at Greenwell Springs Baptist and was broadcast live by the Central City News on Facebook. The event, which was chaired by Supt. Jason Fountain, was […]

Candidates qualified last week to run in the City of Central’s municipal elections Nov. 6. As a courtesy to Central candidates, East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court Doug Welborn and his staff set up shop at Central City Hall last Wednesday to assist candidates and receive qualifying papers. By the close of qualifying on […]

Eight years ago, a group of concerned citizens approached Jim Lloyd, president of Cornerstone Commerical Flooring, and asked him to consider running for the Central Community School Board. Lloyd answered the call and with the help of his No. 1 booster, his wife Gail, he was elected handily! For the past eight years, Jim Lloyd […]

If you are as old as I am, you probably remember Gov. Jimmy Davis’ monstrosity — his million dollar mansion! Shortly after Davis was elected and began his second term in office in 1960, he proposed building a much-needed Governor’s Mansion. Most people agreed that it was needed but the unbelievable price tag of over […]

The Central City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved issuing a Conditional Use permit for the proposed $5 million Central City Hall, which will be located at the corner of Hooper and Sullivans roads. The permit opens the door for public bids to be solicited for the project by early fall. The vote to issue the […]

In a most unusual move, voters returned all six incumbent school board members for another four years without opposition. A seventh member, Dr. Keith Holmes, was also elected without opposition. School board vice president Roxanne Atkinson thanked everyone on behalf of the board. “We are just so honored and humbled that people expressed their satisfaction […]

As Advertising Manager at the Central City News, Kim Powers could be expected to focus her activities on working with business owners in Central and selling traditional newspaper advertising. However, she and Central City News Business Manager Jolice Provost have done far more than that — they are leading the nation in creating something heretofore […]

Central Mayor Jr. Shelton and the five members of the Central City Council have continued the work begun in 2009 to design, approve, and build a City Hall for Central. Because of public interest in the issue, the Central City News asked each of the 16 candidates running for the City Council to give us […]

Thousands of Central residents are expected to attend the 13th Annual City of Central Birthday Celebration beginning at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 4 at Wildcat Stadium, corner Hooper and Sullivan roads. Normally held on July 11, the anniversary of the founding of the City of Central on July 11, 2005, this year’s celebration will […]