Mermentau News

NEW ORLEANS - A southwest Louisiana rice mill executive has been elected chairman of the USA Rice Millers' Association.

The Acadia Parish School Board has added about $995,000 worth of school building improvements after approving a general fund budget that projects a deficit.

How Towns Are Built A young barefoot boy, no more than 10 or 11 years of age walked into a local store in Mermentau, located at the western edge of Acadia Parish.

While growing up in Acadia Parish, Zach and Jeremy Broussard didn't think much of the little houses in the Mermentau Cove cemetery.

In the years after the Civil War, when a steady stream of families headed west in search of a place to farm, the editor of the Washington News in what was still a thriving little St.

A Mermentau family of eight has been displaced by an early morning fire. It all started just before 3:30, when flames broke out in a mobile home being remodeled.

Frank and Connie Cormier announce the engagement of their daughter, Katie Marie Cormier, to Branden Kyle Andrepont, son of Joseph and Chelsa Andrepont.

Wall Street Journal , March 12, 2009 - The energy firm BP PLC is making a major investment in extracting transportation fuel from plants as part of its effort to move rapidly to produce the next generation of ...

As far back as March, 2007, BP's plan to bring about biofuel technology was causing a raucous.