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BATON ROUGE — Events coming up in and around the capital city: Friday, April 19 • District-Wide Strings Rock Concert • 7 p.m. A District-Wide Strings Rock Concert will be held at McKinley Magnet Academic Middle School.  $5 general admission and $2 for students and seniors.  New York City rock violinist Bridgid Bibbens will be a guest […]

KENTWOOD — Galen Iverstine grew up in Central and graduated from Central High School.  But he has given up the “big city” ways of Central to pursue his love of farming as owner of Iverstine Farms in Kentwood in Tangipahoa Parish. Iverstine is a familiar face at the Red Stick Farmers Market in Baton Rouge […]

Red Stick Farmers Market Now Enjoying Its 25th Year BATON ROUGE — The Red Stick Farmers Market began in 1996 as a way to connect Baton Rouge area farmers with the urban market.  It is a producer-only market, which is designed to provide income for Louisiana agribusiness. The market operates from 8 a.m. to 12 noon […]

TOP STORIES: • Disappearing Children: Where Have All the Children Gone? Since 1970, EBR’s Population Grew from 285,167 to 440,171; Yet, the Number of Children in the Parish FELL • Livingston and Ascension Parishes Have Added 25,000 Children Age 5-17 • Can Proposed SE BR District Community School System Bring Families Back to EBR? To […]

At 12:30 a.m., Half Dozen Prostitutes Working Plank Road BATON ROUGE — It’s a little after midnight on Saturday in Louisiana’s capital city, and prostitutes are openly plying their trade on the streets, especially on Plank Road in North Baton Rouge.Within a few blocks of the Baton Rouge City Police station at 4445 Plank Road, […]

GREENWELL SPRINGS — Gary and Marianne Chapman have devoted a lifetime to serving the people of Baton Rouge and Central — a total of 45 years — through their business, Plant World, 10131 Greenwell Springs Road.  They’ve been at their current location for 42 of those 45 years. Stepping into Plant World is like stepping […]

Capital Radio Wars Park IV — Afternoon Drive by Woody Jenkins, Editor Guaranty Broadcasting Eagle 98.1 • Talk 107.3 • ESPN 104.5 • Country Legends 104.9 • The Tiger 100.7 BATON ROUGE — For Gordy Rush, market manager for Guaranty Broadcasting in Baton Rouge, afternoon drive represents the largest audience of the day, and he approaches it as […]

BATON ROUGE — Supporters of the right to keep and bear arms scored big victories in the House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice at the State Capitol Wednesday. The committee approved seven bills strengthening the right to keep and bear arms and killed two bills which would have weakened it. The committee approved […]

BATON ROUGE — A survey of the top-performing public school districts in the Baton Rouge area — Zachary, Central, West Feliciana, Livingston, Ascension, and St. Tammany — indicates that only one of them has magnet schools. The one exception is Ascension, which has authorized magnet school programs on the west bank of the parish in […]