Central City News

EDITOR’S NOTE: For the 6th straight year, Central High Wildcat Football will be broadcast live by the Central City News.  We encourage you to go to the game and support the Wildcats.  But if you can’t go, watch the game live at Central City News on Facebook. If you attend the game, watch our video […]

Tyler Bake,  a 3rd grade student at McKanstry Preparatory School, scored near perfect on her Iowa Standardized test. 

BriAnna McRae, won the State Championship in Trail Class at the 4-H Horse Show at the Lamar Dixon Arena in Gonzales, Louisiana. In trail, they maneuver over obstacles on horseback, they open and close gates, lope over logs, and cross a bridge, as well as other maneuvers.  They are judged on how well they maneuver […]

For the second straight year, the Central City News has been named Newspaper of the Year by the Louisiana Press Association. The Central City News brought home eight 1st place and many 2nd and 3rd place awards in competition with community newspapers across Louisiana in the annual Better Newspaper Contest. The contest includes categories for […]

History 1839 Mount Moriah Baptist Church Records in Louisiana Baptist and Southern Baptist Archives indicate Mount Moriah Baptist Church was constituted on October 21, 1839. Prior to the Civil War, the church was moved to another location at which time the name was changed to Sandy Creek Baptist Church. The property on which the church […]

Lanier Baptist Church Academy is now registering for the 2022-2023 School Year with openings for K4-12th grade. LBC Christian Academy uses the ACE Ministry curriculum, a Bible-based K-12 curriculum, consisting of reading programs, core subjects, electives, and student programs.   School literature says, “Your child will be trained with a character-building academic curriculum like no other.” Each […]

 Scott Sherwin had his first conflict with Life Tabernacle Church in 2006 shortly after the church opened across from his house on Hooper Road. Sherwin started harassing 78-year-old Dorothy Spell, the wife of then-pastor Rev. B. A. Spell. Mrs. Spell was in poor health and recovering from major surgery.  According to Mrs. Spell who is […]

Friday the 13th of March 2020 was the day Gov. John Bel Edwards declared an emergency and began to rule by decree. One of his first acts was ordering churches to close.  At the same time, he kept the big box stores, liquor stores, and abortion clinics open. Gov. Edwards ran into immediate opposition from Pastor Tony Spell of […]

BATON ROUGE – Sen. Bodi White (R-Central) has been rising through the ranks of the Louisiana Legislature, first as a member of the House, then the Senate, and now as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which has considerable control over the state budget and the capital outlay program. Now in the last two years […]

BATON ROUGE — I walked out of the State Capitol about 5 p.m. on June 3. Both the House and Senate were busy inside debating bills.  Normally at that time, employees would be leaving the Capitol, and cars would be noisily pulling out of the parking lot.   But outside, I was completely alone. It […]