Gramercy News

A fleur-de-lis- bonfire tower goes up in flames on the Mississippi River levee in Gramercy, to light the way for Papa Noel.

Levee bonfire construction in Gramercy was photographed in November 2008. Despite some uncertainty last month, bonfires are expected to glow in the River Parishes on Christmas Eve.

No one's really sure how the popular and somewhat bizarre Christmas tradition of lighting two-story bonfires along the banks of the Mississippi River began.

Separate state projects in St. Charles Parish will close lanes on Airline Drive and the Hale Boggs Bridge.

Levee bonfire construction in Gramercy was photographed in November 2008. After prohibiting construction on levees because of a high Mississippi River , officials announced Thursday that construction of Christmas Eve bonfires can resume in the River Parishes.

The weekend after Thanksgiving is usually when bonfire-building begins in earnest along the levees in St.

The right northbound lane of the Hale Boggs Bridge on Interstate 310 in St. Charles Parish will be closed Saturday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. so that workers can move construction materials in place for a cable replacement project.

Mark Anderson is converting a former FEMA trailer park in Convent, La., into the Sugar Hill RV Resort.

Gov. Bobby Jindal doled out Friday $12.5 million in federal pass-through dollars for hurricane recovery and hazard mitigation in St.

Narcotics agents arrested two men on drug distribution counts after 22 pounds of marijuana was delivered to them as part of a two-week drug investigation, Louisiana State Police reported Thursday.

Interstate 10 has reopened east of LaPlace, authorities said. A stretch of the highway had been closed in both directions due to an accident early this morning between two 18-wheelers. Authorities had to close the stretch entirely while sulfuric acid was offloaded from one of the trucks.

At a time when aluminum producers are struggling with low prices and excess capacity, the new owners of the Gramercy Alumina plant in St.

GRAMERCY, La. - A Tennessee company has acquired full ownership of the Gramercy Alumina plant and says production will be at full capacity by the end of the year.

Zapp's Potato Chips has inked licensing agreements with the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University to produce a line of Longhorn and Aggie chips.

A public hearing will be held tonight to examine a proposal to build another exit off Interstate 10 in St.

Officials told a small group of St. John the Baptist Parish residents Tuesday that building another interchange off Interstate 10 may not be far off.

A public hearing will be held tonight to examine a proposal to build another exit off Interstate 10 in St.