Think of the high school ACT test and an exam for college-bound students comes to mind. But the organization that puts on the tests also offers one for high school students who plan to go straight into the workforce full time once they graduate.
GONZALES — In the next six months or so, shoppers will see five new national store chains opening for business in Gonzales as new retailers, in a flurry of new retail for the city, fill formerly empty spaces in existing shopping centers.
GONZALES — Ascension Parish government is eyeing sweeping new regulatory powers to oversee the upkeep of individual residential sewage treatment systems.
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The River Region Art Association will offer a wineglass painting class for adults from 9 a.m. to noon April 27 at its Depot Art Gallery, 320 E. Ascension St., Suite C, Gonzales.
Program to discuss history of the National Leprosarium in Carville
Cloudy skies and threat of rainstorms did not stop children and parents from enjoying the first Sorrento Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday at the town’s community center.
Joy Gautreau Bernadas LeBlanc held a faded photo, carefully looking at each face. As her fingers guided across the image, she shared a story about each person pictured.
East Ascension High School baseball team pushes past slow start
BATON ROUGE — On April 12, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his appointments to several Louisiana boards and commissions.
Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre recently announced several promotions in the dispatch supervisors ranks.
LSU University College presented its annual “Celebration of Excellence” Spring Awards program on March 14 at The Club at Union Square. The college awarded $66,000 through 55 undergraduate student scholarships, four LSU faculty teaching awards, two…
The 23rd Judicial District Bar Association is accepting applications through April 30 or its annual scholarship program, which will award four $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors from Ascension, Assumption and St. James parishes.
The theme of the Louisiana Federation of Republican Women convention March 29-31 in Baton Rouge was "Let's Paint the Town Red."
The following people were booked into the Ascension Parish jail April 4-11:
Lakeside Primary in Prairieville has added a rice and crawfish pond to its school garden, which was established with the help of a School Impact Grant from The Ascension Fund.
A new poll commissioned by business interests from Baton Rouge and New Orleans suggests there's widespread support for funding and using a passenger rail service connecting the two cities.
Hundreds of families turned out for the Food Truck Festival March 30 at Tanger Outlets in Gonzales. Along with a dozen food trucks offering temptations from 'trash grits' to Louisiana strawberry sorbet, there were games, including cornhole and Jum…
The Ascension Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol promoted and awarded four cadets on March 25 in Gonzales.
Kim Christy, of Prairieville, has announced her candidacy for the District 7 seat on the Ascension Parish Council.
GONZALES — With the Ascension Parish School Board studying ways to help families of more than 30 students impacted by changes in Prairieville school attendance zones, two day care owners have presented their businesses as possible solutions to the…
GONZALES — An Ascension Parish man faces 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to molesting a child and to punching a fellow inmate in the face nearly a year after his initial incarceration on the molestation charge.
Ascension Parish government is on the cusp of adopting new rules limiting the amount of dirt that can be used to raise homes and businesses in the flood plain.
GONZALES — With new I-10 interchanges, wider state highways and commuter bus and park-and-ride options, Ascension Parish's new transportation master plan proposes an ambitious transformation of the parish's road grid over the next 20 years or more.
ST. AMANT — An Ascension Parish woman fired a gun early Thursday at a moving pickup truck after an argument with one of its occupants, sheriff's deputies said.
GONZALES — A draft of Ascension Parish's proposed comprehensive plan proposes a broader range of housing densities than is currently allowed by zoning and encourages new kinds of development types while forecasting new growth on the parish's rural…
GONZALES — Now that the formerly named St. Elizabeth Hospital in Gonzales is part of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, a possible expansion of the facility, now named Our Lady of the Lake Ascension, is being explored, as well as the ad…
Girl Scouts of southeast Louisiana have more than a million reasons why they are the female entrepreneurs of tomorrow after completing another successful product sale during this year’s Cookie Program.
Easter bunny visits Sorrento Saturday
Families are invited to celebrate Easter at Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s with free photos with the Easter Bunny, crafts for the kids and an Easter egg hunt. Also, kids can eat free at all Bass Pro Shops signature restaurants while the Easter Bunny …
Conservative blogger Scott McKay was the guest speaker at the Ascension Republican Women meeting March 21 at the Clarion Inn. For information on the group, email ARWrUS@aol.com.
Identical twins Fay Fore Patt, of Baton Rouge, and Ray Fore Haynes, of Zachary, celebrated their 90th birthday with more than 150 friends and relatives March 9 at the St. Isidore Center in Baker.
Registration is open through April 26 for the Ascension Parish Home Vegetable Garden Contest for adults and 4-H youth, organized by the Ascension Parish LSU Agricultural Center, along with Ascension Parish Farm Bureau and the Ascension Parish Mast…
Students in the Science and Robotics Club at Dutchtown Middle School experienced the science of Walt Disney World over the Mardi Gras break, through the Disney Youth Program and the Florida theme park's Y.E.S. (Youth Education Series).
Kimberly Christy gave a presentation to the Gonzales Mayor's Youth Advisory Council on March 30 as part of the Walking Through the Legislative Process program created by Louisiana Rep. Ken Brass, of Vacherie.
A video created by a group of students in the gifted and talented program at Gonzales Middle School has won 10 laptop computers for a school makerspace through the Make It Real competition sponsored by the Tinkercad 3D design app and the Autodesk …
Ascension Head Start students with perfect attendance in March were Sha’yon Bell, Ma’Kailei Bougere, Javier Breaux, Mitchell Chatman, Corlyn Davis, Taliah Demby, TyShawn Demby, Jace Dorsey, Mia Forcell, Tai Green, Trey Green, Rhian Hamilton, Khloe…
The Junior Beta Club from Oak Grove Primary School in Prairieville had 83 representatives at the elementary Junior Beta Club State Convention in Lafayette.
Ascension Public Schools teacher Becky Fritchie won the Aerospace Education Teacher of the Year Award for Louisiana, presented by the Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
James Lee, Louisiana director of grassroots operations for the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, will discuss criminal justice reform at the April Ascension GOP Roundtable, sponsored by Ascension Republican Women. The Roundtable will begin at 1…
The Ascension Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol promoted and awarded four cadets on March 25 in Gonzales.
Court cases filed in Ascension Parish on March 25-29:
The following people were booked into the Ascension Parish jail March 28-April 4:
A different kind of senior prom: Residents 60 and older dance, reminiscence at Council on Aging prom
Songs by Ronnie Milsap, KC and the Sunshine Band and other popular bands from the 1940s to the '70s had senior residents dancing the afternoon away Sunday at the 11th annual Ascension Council on Aging Senior Prom.
GONZALES — Pressure is building from two of Ascension Parish's three municipalities to have parish officials break from their longstanding policy of leaving the maintenance of small roadside ditches to the cities and towns.
The storm that hit the St. Amant area Sunday night, damaging homes, cars, boats and an above-ground swimming pool, was a light-to-moderate tornado with winds up to 90 mph, the National Weather Service determined Tuesday.
ST. AMANT — After a severe band of thunderstorms blasted across southeast Louisiana on Sunday, the National Weather Service on Tuesday is sending out teams Tuesday to investigate whether a tornado had swiped across a nearly 40-mile-long path throu…
At least five homes and several cars and boats were damaged in St. Amant on Sunday night after residents said they heard and saw a tornado tear through their neighborhood.