Convent News

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for southwestern St. John the Baptist, St. James and northwestern Lafourche parishes until 5:15 p.m. Monday.

Hambrick-Jackson, founder and director of the River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville, began researching rural black schools about 1996, when she found an abandoned school building on the east bank of the River Road in the community of Romeville near Convent.

Walter Ross III and Alexander Johnson recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Both are members of Boy Scout Troop 491 and were recognized for their achievements during a recent Court of Honor, held at St.

There must not be a pothole in River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that Mary Ann Sternberg hasn't tested.

It's a sweet little hardback book full of great explorations of places, people and events that occurred along the River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.