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22 hrs ago | NOLA.com

Fishin' Fridays top spot: Bay Lanaux

Cold, windy days in December -- like those forecast for this weekend -- typically have one of three affects on local anglers.

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Thu Dec 10, 2009

Times-Picayune

Court-martial records confirm key claims in ex-soldier's sordid book on Iraq

Court-martial records produced this morning by the U.S. Army confirm crucial claims in a new book by Port Sulphur native Beau Lejeune that he attempted to destroy stolen weapons while serving in Iraq.

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Tue Dec 08, 2009

NOLA.com

Book by Port Sulphur native paints sordid picture of U.S. soldiers in Iraq

Beau Lejeune 'had numerous things that he was in trouble for,' said Lt. Col. Michael Kazmierzak, spokesman for the Louisiana Guard.

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Mon Dec 07, 2009

Earth Times

Photography Exhibit Showcases Vanishing Landscapes of the Louisiana Coast

The fusion of art and the environment takes place at the Port of New Orleans from December 1 - 16, 2009 with Matthew D. White's exhibit, The End of the Great River.

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Sat Dec 05, 2009

Times-Picayune

Plaquemines Parish festival celebrates orange growers' defeat of pest threats

Stacie Garrett, a teacher at Belle Chasse Primary School, adjusts the lighting on a citrus exhibit prepared by the school's 4H Club on Friday, in preparation for the Plaquemines Parish Fair and Orange Festival at the Medal of Honor Park.

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Wed Nov 25, 2009

Cameratown.com Digital Imaging News

Photography Exhibit Showcases Vanishing Landscapes of the Louisiana Coast

The Port of New Orleans will host an exhibit "The End of the Great River: Photographs of the Lower Mississippi River Delta" on December 1st through 18th featuring the work of New Orleans-based photographer Matthew White.

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Tue Nov 10, 2009

Times-Picayune

Tropical Storm Ida slows and weakens as it approaches the coast

Adam Nguyen of Port Sulphur sits with his mother, Chuong Phan, and brother, Peter Nguyen, on cots set up at the Belle Chasse Auditorium for residents in the lower portion of Plaquemines Parish at risk of coastal flooding from Tropical Storm Ida.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

Times-Picayune

Corps to hold meeting Tuesday in Plaquemines Parish on federal levees

The Army Corps of Engineers is seeking additional public input on improvements to Plaquemines Parish's federal levees in two public meetings, starting Tuesday.

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Sat Oct 24, 2009

NOLA.com

Authorities work to clean up oil spill near Port Sulphur

The Coast Guard and other agencies were working Saturday to clean up an oil spill in a marsh near Port Sulphur High School.

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Wed Sep 16, 2009

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Federal Aid Enables Construction Of New Plaquemines Medical Facility

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Louisiana Recovery Authority recently announced $13.5 million in consolidated funding to enable the construction of a new, three-story medical facility in Plaquemines Parish.

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Mon Sep 14, 2009

National Public Radio

The New Republic: Minorities Hit With Poverty Increase

Four young children gather in their FEMA trailer in Port Sulphur, Louisiana. Seven children and four adults from the family are still living in a FEMA trailer after their home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

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Wed Aug 26, 2009

NOLA.com

Katrina wounds Buras community, but can't kill it

Buras citrus farmer Jerry Ragas has been growing oranges, satsumas and grapefruit for years and was determined to get back to his groves.

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Tue Aug 25, 2009

Times-Picayune

Buras, LA.

SUSAN POAG/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE A crew from Zimmer-Eschette Services of New Orleans has been working for the past month prepping the former Buras High School for demolition as part of the ongoing restoration and rebuilding of schools in lower Plaquemines Parish.

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Tue Aug 04, 2009

Times-Picayune

Port Sulphur couple asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear 'bad faith' Katrina case against State Farm

A Port Sulphur couple who lost their home in Hurricane Katrina has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling rejecting their assertion that State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

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Mon Aug 03, 2009

NOLA.com

An Unshakeable Optimist

In States of Mind, Brad Herzog described Pastor Max Latham as Forrest Gump with a Bill Clinton twang.

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Fri Jul 31, 2009

Times-Picayune

Port Sulphur couple asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear 'bad faith' Katrina case against State Farm

A Port Sulphur couple who lost their home in Hurricane Katrina has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling rejecting their assertion that State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

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Tue Jul 14, 2009

TheNewOrleansChannel

I-Team: Corps Spends Millions To Fix Salty Levees

Just south of Empire in Plaquemines Parish, Melissa McGaha and her neighbors have been praying for the grass to grow on the newly repaired levees behind their homes.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

NOLA.com

State aims to eradicate invasive tilapia in Plaquemines

At the edge of an abandoned cane field in Plaquemines Parish last week, a 19-acre pond morphed into a rotting fish graveyard overnight.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

Daily Journal of Commerce

Your Daily Construction News Source

Alan Macken, principal of Hammurabi, says the south Florida-based company appreciates the value of strong structures to withstand Category 4 hurricane winds, but says theya TMre hard to come by.

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Tue Jun 02, 2009

Daily Journal of Commerce

Construction under way on Plaquemines fire stations

Using a new construction system designed to stand up to hurricane-force winds, crews have begun building two fire station projects in Plaquemines Parish.

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