Editor’s note: Each week the News Examiner-Enterprise is sent to press on Wednesday mornings, which means the semifinal game against Iowa played Wednesday, May 8th, was after this edition went to press.
The St. James Parish Planning Commission met Monday evening in Convent and conducted a two-hour plus long Public Hearing on D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments’ (DESRI) land use application to construct a 2,200 acre solar farm in Vacherie, and in the end, the Commission voted 81 to deny DESRI’s land use application.
Last Saturday, April 27, 2024, registered voters in St. James Parish who made it to the polls overwhelmingly voted down a proposed 6-mill ( 10-year) parish-wide property tax that would have dedicated 4-mills to pay for all residential garbage fees, as well use 2-mills to help fund recreation, road and bridge maintenance, and animal control.
Early last Saturday morning just after 2:00 a.m., Police received a call reporting that multiple shots had been fired in the parking lot of Lionel’s Bar located on Main Street in Lutcher.
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