Central City News

CENTRAL — The Mayor’s Committee on City Services received bids from four companies Wednesday for the City of Central’s proposed five-year City Services contract. Over the course of the five years, the difference between the lowest bidder, IBTS, and the highest bidder, CH2MHILL, is more than $2.7 million.  CH2MHILL currently holds the contract, but it […]

CENTRAL — When Mayor Mac Watts’ Committee on City Services opened proposals for a new master privatization agreement for the City  of Central this afternoon at the Central Fire Station on Sullivan Road, there was something of a surprise: CH2MHILL, the existing contractor, was not the low bidder. In fact, it wasn’t even close. IBTS […]

CENTRAL — The Central City News wants to express gratitude to its Facebook friends, who today passed the 1,000 mark! Facebook has added a new dimension to the Central City News’ coverage of the Central community and allows the newspaper to reach interested citizens directly and immediately. Each post by the Central City News on […]

Mrs. Cindy Richard made this wonderful German chocolate cake and brought it to the Central City News office to help celebrate the newspaper’s receiving the Louisiana Press Association’s annual Freedom of Information Award. CENTRAL — At the Louisiana Press Association annual awards ceremonies Saturday night, I felt very honored to accept the LPA’s Freedom of […]

MARKSVILLE — The Louisiana Press Association Saturday night presented the coveted Freedom of Information Award for 2010 to the Central City News for its efforts to protect the public’s right to know in Louisiana.  The LPA, which was meeting in its 131st annual convention, is composed of virtually all of Louisiana’s daily and weekly newspapers. […]

CENTRAL — In a letter to Central Mayor Mac Watts, Central City Councilman Louis DeJohn said Watts should make Councilman Tony LoBue “suffer the consequences” for having brought copies of City Attorney Sheri Morris’ monthly legal bills to the Mayor’s Committee on Legal Services, which LoBue chairs. LoBue says the Mayor appointed the committee to […]

CENTRAL — Central Mayor Mac Watts has demanded that Councilman Tony LoBue resign as Chairman of the Mayor’s Committee on Legal Services and keep quiet about it.  But Councilman LoBue said Monday he has no plan to resign.  Watts said he wanted an “immediate” resignation without “fanfare” or “undue publicity.” Meanwhile, Watts suspended the activities of the […]

CENTRAL — Councilman Tony LoBue has endured a world of unjust and undeserved criticism over the past two weeks, relative to his service as chairman of the Mayor’s Committee on Legal Services. The criticism is that Councilman LoBue brought to his committee, which was holding its first meeting to look at the city’s legal services, […]

BATON ROUGE — Five Central High School athletes have qualified for the State 5A Track Championships at the LSU Bernie Moore Track this coming Saturday. They won the right to compete as a result of winning 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Place in the Region II 5A Championship this past Thursday at the Catholic High track. […]

By Olive Campbell, Central High Class of 1947 CENTRAL — We were born during the “Great Depression,” were teenagers during “the Great War” World War II, and are part of the “Greatest Generation.”  Times were difficult during the 1940’s.  We sent our young men off to war and lost a lot of them. Women went […]