Central City News

The Central High School Varsity Cheerleaders have successfully launched their competition season by winning a 2019 Louisiana High School State Spirit Championship.  In addition to cheering for the Central High School basketball programs, they are preparing for a return to the National High School Cheerleading Championship (NHSCC) Feb. 7-9 in Orlando to defend their back-to-back […]

 Conservatives have had working control of the Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish since 2012. Now their influence in the party has been extended for at least another four years. Almost the entire membership of the 17-member Republican Parish Executive Committee has been reelected without opposition. The committee, which is composed of conservatives, includes […]

 Leo G. Summers celebrated his 100th birthday this past weekend. He was born on January 10, 1920. A World War II veteran, he served in Casa Blanca. Leo and seven of his brothers were in the war at the same time.  Leo is one of 13 children of Jabus Harney and Alma Mary Blanchard Summers […]

READ THE CENTRAL CITY NEWS FOR JANUARY 2020 — Click here to read the print edition on line: https://centralcitynews.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CCN-January-2020-SMALL.pdf — TOP NEWS STORIES • Sen. Bodi White of Central to Be Named Chairman of Powerful Senate Finance Committee • Committee Hears General Appropriations Bill and Capital Outlay Bill • Future Improvements at Central High School […]

The 2019 Central High football season is now history, and for Coach Sid Edwards it is filled with fond memories. The Wildcats had a good year, finishing 8-3 but there’s more to it than that. “This is the finest group of seniors I’ve ever had,” Coach Sid said. “Before the season started, this team was […]

The latest assessment by the Louisiana Department of Education has once again given the Central Community School System an A rating. A total of nine of the 69 school districts across Louisiana were rated A. Supt. Jason Fountain was scheduled to unveil the numbers to the public today. Central High School and Central Middle School […]

The Central Community School Board is considering whether to propose renewing the school system’s 23.65-mill property tax in order to pay for a complete renovation and modernization of Central High School, improvements to Wildcat Stadium and replacement of temporary buildings at Tanglewood and Bellingrath Hills elementary schools. The plan, which could be considered by the school board at its […]

  Republican gubernatorial candidate Eddie Rispone carried most of Louisiana in the Nov. 16 election, but incumbent Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards carried Orleans Parish by 100,000 votes and East Baton Rouge Parish by 50,000, thereby sealing a winning statewide margin of 40,000 votes. Despite a big victory in East Baton Rouge Parish, Gov. Edwards […]

On October 12, 2019, the people of the proposed City of St. George voted to incorporate by an overwhelming margin, thereby authorizing the creation of Louisiana’s fifth largest municipality with 86,000 residents. Nevertheless, after the election, East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome filed suit to stop the incorporation.  She was joined in that […]

 Jane Zaruba, Darcy Giannobile, and Adelaide Zaruba, 4-Hers from East Baton Rouge Parish have won a trip to the 2019 National Poultry and Egg Conference Contest at the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville, KY.  The girls put in hard work studying for the Louisiana 4-H poultry judging competition and earned them a spot […]