Central City News

Newspaper’s Fight For Public Records Gets Boost from Three-Judge Panel CENTRAL — The 1st Circuit Court of Appeal has given the Central City News a big victory in its fight for access to public records in the City of Central. In a unanimous ruling, the three-judge panel reversed a 2010 decision by District Judge Kay Bates in favor […]

Nominations Due For Your Favorite Central Business In Nine Categories CENTRAL — You can help honor Central’s outstanding businesses and business leaders by making nominations for the 3rd Annual Central Business Awards.  The competition is sponsored by the Central City News. Anyone can make nominations. The deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, March 16.  In order to be […]

by Woody Jenkins CENTRAL — The decision by Louisiana’s 1st Circuit Court of Appeal to reverse the ruling of District Judge Kay Bates in the case of Community Press, LLC, v. CH2MHILL was a clear victory for the Central City News in our fight to protect the citizen’s right to have access to Public Records […]

CENTRAL — Registered Republicans in Central will go to the polls on Saturday, March 24 to vote on three different party issues — the Louisiana Republican Presidential Primary, the election of the members of the Republican State Central Committee, and the election of members of the Republican Parish Executive Committee. Central has two races for […]

CENTRAL — Louisiana’s Republican Presidential Primary will be held Saturday, March 24.  It will be the only Presidential Primary in the nation for the two-week period between the Illinois primary on March 20 and Texas on April 3. As a result, all four candidates for the Republican nomination will probably campaign in Louisiana. Since Central […]

Outstanding Student Home Schooled for Eight Years Before Starting Central High CENTRAL — Central High School senior Vivian Ryder has been named the Central Community School System’s Outstanding High School Student of 2012. Miss Ryder was honored at ceremonies at the Central School Board meeting last week. In an interview Wednesday, Vivian said the award has made her […]

Reps. Clif Richardson, Valarie Hodges Agree CENTRAL — Education reform, pension reform, and transportation will be top issues during this year’s regular session of the Louisiana Legislature, according to State Rep. Clif Richardson and freshman Rep. Valarie Hodges, both Republicans from Central. Their remarks came during the annual Legislative Town Hall meeting at DEMCO, sponsored […]

ZACHARY — Lane Regional Medical Center has announced that  J.J. Martinez, Au.D, CCC-A, F-AAA has affiliated with Lane’s team .  He recently joined Selective Hearing, located at 6110 Main Street, Suite D, in Zachary. Dr. Martinez served on active duty in the USMC.    

CENTRAL — Events coming up in and around Central: February 24-March 30 • Lenten Fish Dinners • 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Magnolia United Methodist Church, 16024 Greenwell Springs, will be selling catfish dinners each Friday during Lent from Feb. 24 through March 30.  The cost per dinner is $7 which includes fish, French fries, […]

BATON ROUGE — Central community students will again have the opportunity this summer to participate in the AHEC of a Summer program for at least 50 hours of job shadowing practicing health care professionals. The program will be offered at Our Lady of the Lake College and will be a collaboration of Central Louisiana AHEC […]