Central City News

 Former Central High football coach, baseball coach, and athletic director William “Sonny” Jackson passed away Saturday, July 10, 2021, after a long bout with cancer. After coaching at Central High in the mid-1970’s, Coach Jackson went on to coach at the college level and was the winningest coach in the history of Nicholls State, his […]

The Louisiana Department of Education has a committee reviewing content standards for all high school social studies courses statewide. The 25-member committee has become a hotbed of discussion of Critical Race Theory. The committee appears to be taking a liberal approach to the subject. The next meeting will be at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 31 […]

BriAnna McRae is 11 years old and has been riding horses since she was 4.  She lives with her parents and siblings and attends Central schools.  She is a member of the Livingston Horse Show Association (LHSA) and a member of the Greenwell Springs Youth Riders (GSYR), a mounted drill team. She was the LHSA […]

The Central City News has been named Louisiana’s Newspaper of the Year for 2021 by the Louisiana Press Association, which represents 110 member newspapers in Louisiana. Altogether, Community Press, LLC, which owns the Central City News, the Istrouma Journal in North Baton Rouge, and the St. George Leader in the new City of St. George, […]

 Otis “Dude” Forbes is known by residents of Biltmore Subdivision for cycling around the neighborhood. Forbes rides 30 to 50 miles everyday and once a month he rides 100 miles in a one day. It’s estimated that Otis has biked 20,000 miles around the city block in Biltmore.  Residents of the subdivision, along with friends […]

 Tyler Blaine Torina, a 2010 graduate of Central High School, graduated on May 15, 2021 as a general surgeon.  Torina’s undergraduate degree was obtained in 2014 from LSU where he studied kinesiology. In 2017, he moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he attended medical school at the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine.  Dr. Torina will […]

Dear Brothers & Sisters  in the USA and all the world,        Independence Day has come and gone. The fireworks in the communities that I drove through were fabulous. I have never in my lifetime saw such a show. It seemed like everyone had fireworks. If this was a show of our voices, […]

Early in the pandemic last spring, Gov. John Bel Edwards used a provision of Louisiana’s emergency powers law to have Central pastor Tony Spell arrested for holding worship services at Life Tabernacle Church on Hooper Road. Now, in a surprise move, the Louisiana Legislature has suspended the power of the governor to levy criminal penalties […]

The Central City News has been named Newspaper of the Year for 2021 by the Louisiana Press Association. The award was based on the newspaper’s news coverage, investigative reporting, photography, advertising, graphic design, and online news coverage. The Central City News is published by Community Press, LLC, owned by Woody and Diane Jenkins.  Woody Jenkins […]

 In April 2020, Rev. Tony Spell was arrested by Central Police Chief Roger Corcoran for holding worship services despite orders from liberal Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards. At the time, Rev. Spell received some sage advice from one of his lawyers. Baton Rouge attorney Joe Long urged the pastor to go slow on pursuing his […]