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7 hrs ago | WWL-TV New Orleans

Recycle your Christmas tree to rebuild Louisiana wetlands

State and local officials are encouraging residents to recycle their Christmas tree to help protect and rebuild coastal wetlands.

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Tue Dec 29, 2009

The Cincinnati Enquirer

New Orleans hot spots

NEW ORLEANS - For fans of the Cincinnati Bearcats visiting New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl, a long weekend won't be enough to take in everything the Crescent City has to offer.

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Sun Dec 27, 2009

NOLA.com

Outdoors mailbag: Snake skins, where the ducks are hiding and photo shop

This aerial over New Orleans and Lafitte shows the loss of wetlands in the area.

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Mon Dec 07, 2009

Times-Picayune

St. Bernard Parish Christmas parade returns to Chalmette on Saturday

An elf collects letters to Santa from children along the parade route during St.

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Sat Dec 05, 2009

Times-Picayune

Editorial: Stuck at Limbo High

Jefferson Parish schools are strictly enforcing residency requirements in order to comply with a desegregation order, and the change from the district's previous lax approach to attendance boundaries has upset some families whose children have been forced to change schools.

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Thu Dec 03, 2009

NOLA.com

Christmas enthusiasm builds, with lights and special events

The Xavier University Gospel Choir and the Treme Brass Band were among the performers Thursday at the 'Lighting of the Balconies' event at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street.

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Tue Dec 01, 2009

Times-Picayune

Residency questions keep teenager in high school enrollment limbo

Kelly Barbato and her 17-year-old son, Blake, stand on the front porch of the house in Lafitte where they have been living.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

Times-Picayune

Work begins on new visitor's center at Chalmette Battlefield

Construction has begun on the new visitor's center at Chalmette Battlefield , officials said.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

Times-Picayune

Panel to consider levee alignments

A state-hired panel of engineering and environmental experts from across the country will meet today to begin evaluating five alignments for the planned Donaldsonville-to-the-Gulf levee to block storm surge from the Barataria Basin.

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Sun Nov 08, 2009

WDSU.com

Coastal Parishes Prep For Possible Flooding

As Ida gets closer to the Gulf of Mexico, flooding becomes a concern in southeastern Louisiana.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

NOLA.com

Coastal wetlands education program conveys memories of fading lifestyles

The Rev. Joe Recasner's memory of his childhood in the Lower 9th Ward is a bit fuzzy -- he has a hard time remembering exactly when his family moved to the area or how long it was before a wall separating his neighborhood from the adjacent Bayou Bienvenue was built.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

Times-Picayune

Man shot in Iberville/Lafitte area of New Orleans

A man was shot shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Bienville and N. Derbigny streets .

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Wed Oct 28, 2009

WGNO

Jean Lafitte Officer Arrested For Simple Burglary Of Vehicle

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office announces the arrest of Jean Lafitte Police Officer Anthony J. Molinario, W/M, 27, of Luling, for the crime of simple burglary of a vehicle.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

WWL-TV New Orleans

Lafitte police officer arrested for simple burglary

A Jean Lafitte police officer has been arrested after allegedly burglarizing a car, said Sheriff Newell Normand.

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Thu Oct 22, 2009

The Daily Advertiser

La. wildlife experts concerned about tiger prawns

BATON ROUGE - The chief concerns Louisiana shrimpers have had about foreign shrimp involved the low prices they forced onto the market.

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Tue Oct 20, 2009

Times-Picayune

Key Obama officials hear pleas from La.

Several high-level Obama administration officials heard more than three hours worth of testimony Monday from environmental groups, fishing organizations, scientists and the oil and gas industry about development of a national policy aimed at protecting the oceans and streamlining government management.

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Mon Oct 19, 2009

NOLA,com

Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan breaks ground at B.W. Cooper

Federal housing officials broke ground this morning at the B.W. Cooper, the last of the former "Big Four" public-housing developments to secure financing for construction.

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Sat Oct 17, 2009

NOLA.com

Restoring nature at the Barataria Preserve: an editorial

The communities of Jean Lafitte and Crown Point in west Jefferson Parish have grown more vulnerable to surge flooding in recent decades as human activity and coastal erosion depleted surrounding marshes.

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Thu Oct 15, 2009

NOLA.com

Aerial spraying for mosquitos planned in Kenner, Lafitte areas

Aerial spraying is planned Friday night to combat mosquitoes in Kenner and the Lafitte area, Jefferson Parish officials said.

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Tue Oct 13, 2009

NOLA.com

Park service wants to backfill abandoned canals in the Barataria Preserve

Zipping in an airboat over a thick mat of water hyacinths floating in an old oil and gas service canal in the Barataria Preserve, David Muth pointed to wispy trees lining the banks and raised his voice to be heard above the roaring motor.

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