Estelle News

Ann Dubuisson Sturgill has just published a massive history of both St. Landry Parish and many of its earliest families, and numerous groups are coming together to celebrate.

The West Bank levee board has reached an agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers to shore up a troublesome levee south of Marrero that one board member has likened to "a cake that keeps falling flat." The 1,600-foot earthen levee, which runs south from the Old Estelle Pump Station, has failed twice, once in the early 1990s and again in 2007 when ...

Jefferson Parish has reached an agreement with the Audubon Nature Institute to study how best to develop Parc des Familles, a 610-acre tract in Crown Point that will be the second-largest park in the region behind City Park in New Orleans.

Whether you are a Dupre, Garland, Terrebonne, Stagg or Dubuisson or simply a lover of local history, a new book by Ann Dubuisson Sturgill may be what are looking for.

Rather than looking back, this Saturday's meeting of the local history society will be looking forward to help find ways to improve library services for all.

The story of the Opelousas Guards, also known as Company F of the 8th Louisiana Infantry during the American Civil War, will be told Saturday by Harvey Wier, a descendent of a member of the company.

From her front porch, Estelle Duncan can see straight over the wall into Jackson Barracks.

STAFF PHOTO BY SUSAN POAG Fourth grader Travon McCann holds a frog he earned for passing the LEAP this school year at Estelle Elementary School in Marrero on the last day of school for all Jefferson Parish public schools Monday, May 25, 2009.

Elder Olander Cassimere Sr. would have preached the Mother's Day service at noon at the Lower 9th Ward church where he was pastor.