Donaldsonville News

When a coworker of mine cleared out her desk after 20 years in the newsroom, she said, "I just can't see spending the rest of my life newspapering." I got to thinking about that the other day when The Times-Picayune announced that it will be printing only three papers a week beginning sometime in the fall.

Advocate staff photo by ADAM LAU Racco Desire, at left, celebrates with fellow Donaldsonville High School graduates after receiving their diplomas during a ceremony at Floyd Boutte Memorial Stadium in Donaldsonville on Friday.

Budget documentation made available during Tuesday night's council meeting shows total predicted revenues at $6.52 million, with expenditures at $6.47 million.

In this undated image released by History, Mitchell Guist from the series "Swamp People," is shown.

"Watching the children come down the hill on 'slippy slides' gave me the idea for a water feature, a meandering stream that started near the top of the hill," Debbie Corbo said.

Curator, educator, and preservationist Kathe Hambrick-Jackson is the first person to showcase the history and heritage of the enslaved Africans along the Mississippi River.

The Ascension Parish 4-H Junior Leaders annual dance is set for 6 p.m. Friday at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center.

Danielle Bassett, 29, Michelle Douglas, 28, and a few other friends were stretching and exercising in a field at Tee Joe Gonzales Park in Gonzales one evening last week.

DONALDSONVILLE, La. - Ascension Parish President Tommy Martinez says he believes the parish needs to look at setting up a dedicated funding mechanism to pay for parish animal control.

Ascension Parish President Tommy Martinez says he believes the parish needs to look at setting up a dedicated funding mechanism to pay for parish animal control.

A proposed 33 percent pay increase would make the Ascension Parish Council one of three governing authorities in the nine-parish Baton Rouge metro area with members paid $1,600 or more per month.

An 18-wheeler has overturned in western Ascension Parish on River Road but authorities are not treating the crash as a hazardous materials incident, officials said.