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Shaelyn Compton, above, received the award for Champion Intermediate Showman in the goat section of the St. Mary Parish Junior Fair and Livestock Show. Below, Reid Lovell received the Champion Junior Showman Beef and First Place Beef Junior award.

Awards from the parish fair

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Port Commissioner Joe Cain speaks during Monday’s Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District Commission meeting. The commission approved hiring two consultants to help the port in its efforts to keep the Atchafalaya River Bar Channel adequately dredged to allow for commerce. At right, is Commissioner Gary Duhon. The commission formed a committee consisting of Cain, Duhon and Commissioner Ben Adams to meet with the consultants and report back to the full board. (The Daily Review/Zachary Fitzgerald)

Port ramps up search for dredging solution

At a time when the region’s economy is struggling, navigation issues on the waterways are only further stifling business.

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Book signing

Cornel A. Keeler of Morgan City was among the authors who appeared for a book-signing Saturday at Lafayette's Mall of Acadiana.

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Aspiring principal

Tonya Hills, holding certificate, a teacher at Hattie Watts Elementary, was presented with a Horace Mann-Louisiana Association of Principals Aspiring Principal Scholarship at Thursday’s St.

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Sports

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Hanson's Jack Vaccarella makes the grab on this play during Saturday’s final day of the Annual Hanson Memorial High School Baseball Classic at Amar Lancon Field.

Lifestyle

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When pruning trees, work with its natural form. LSU AgCenter Horticulturist Dan Gill said not to butcher trees as has been done to these crape myrtles.
—LSU AgCenter Photo/Dan Gill

“A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its tormentor.” George William Curtis, American writer, editor and spe

Obituaries

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August 12, 1940 — March 5, 2017
Wayne Jackson Buxton, 76, a resident of Berwick, passed away Sunday, March 5, 2017, in his home surrounded by loved ones.

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