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I’m always so amazed when someone says a particular thing is going to happen or a certain candidate is going to be elected or a certain calamity is about to befall us.  One of the things I’ve learned in life is that no can predict the future with any accuracy and that what seems so certain […]

Not long ago, Woodlawn High School was a quiet country school in rural East Baton Rouge Parish.  Everybody in the Woodlawn area knew one another, and the vast majority of parents sent their children to school there. Now, things are very different.  Forty years of cross-town busing caused most parents in the area to move […]

The new Miss Baton Rouge is Devin Boyd, a grad-uate of Parkview Baptist School and the LSU School of Mass Communications, where she had a 3.63 average and was on the Honor Roll. Devin’s victory was unusual because she won all of the competition’s categories — swimsuit, evening gown, interview, and most photogenic. As Miss […]

Just as East Baton Rouge Parish School Supt. Warren Drake has promised to re-open historic Istrouma High School on Winbourne Avenue, the school’s mascot, Chief Nawaganti has been given new life. The Istrouma High Class of 1964, which donated a statue of Nawaganti to the school, retrieved the chief from the vacant building and gave […]

Baton Rougeans often forget that the older parts of their city were a Civil War battlefield.  The Battle of Baton Rouge, which was fought on Aug. 5, 1862 left 48 Union and 48 Confederate soldiers dead. Some of the most intense fighting occurred on the grounds of the Historic Magnolia Cemetery at the corner of […]

This month the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board is implementing new school boundaries that could eventually restore neighborhood schools. The effects of the new boundaries could be felt most dramatically in the southeast part of East Baton Rouge Parish, where the St. George movement has been the strongest. Woodlawn High, Woodlawn Middle, and the […]

Athletes at Central High and Central Private School will be pre-tested later this month as part of a program to make sure athletes with head injuries do not return to the playing field prematurely. Central Physical Therapy, 13111 Hooper Road, which is Louisiana’s only fully certified concussion health center, is performing the tests free of […]

The Central City News, which is published by Community Press, LLC, dominated the Better Newspaper Awards competition at this year’s Louisiana Press Association annual convention in New Orleans. The Central paper won both the Advertising Sweepstakes and the Editorial Sweepstakes, meaning that it won more awards that any other newspaper in the state in each […]

For the second straight year, the Capital City News won the Louisiana Press Association’s highest award for community journalism — 1st Place for General Excellence. This award takes into account the newspaper’s news coverage, photography, editorial comment, layout, advertising, and all other factors. More than 110 daily and weekly newspapers and specialty publications are eligible […]

In an interview with the Central City News, Central High head football coach Sid Edwards reminisced about the decade since the City of Central incorporated on July 11, 2005. It has been a great decade for Central High football, he said, as he recalled some of the most memorable games.  When asked to rank the […]