Tale of a Bike-A-Thon

17 June 2011

By An Anonymous Participant     Chuck Langlois grins at me and says, “If I can do it, you can do it!” How can I say no? So here I am at 8:30 on Saturday morning, registering my 51 year old body and dust covered bike to raise money for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.  I note [...]

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Extreme Water Sports Festival This Saturday

17 June 2011

    Bennett’s Water Ski & Wakeboard School is hosting LA Night Jam IV presented by Mastercraft Boats at TriLakes in Zachary this Saturday!  This extreme sports competition/family festival will include a lake with stadium lighting, local vendors, live bands, athletes and fans gathering for the most unique night out of the summer.    Gates open at [...]

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Neighborhood Meet & Greet This Saturday for Central Woods Residents

16 June 2011

The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office and the EBR Sheriff's Central Substation will hold a Neighborhood Meet and Greet in Central Woods subdivision on Saturday, June 18 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the BREC Park in the neighborhood. Residents in the neighborhood are invited to come meet with the deputies for information [...]

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Today’s Newspaper PDF Online

16 June 2011

As a service to our readers and our advertisers, the CentralSpeaks.com newspaper in its entirety, formatted exactly as the printed newspaper looks, will now be available online each week.  Follow this link:  06/16/11 PDF  to access the PDF.  This will not change our daily posting of news as it happens, it is simply one more way for [...]

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Remembering Boyd Len Carpenter & Jackie O’Neal

16 June 2011

By Gwen Carpenter Roland on Facebook, Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 11:19 a.m.   Pictured: Boyd Len Carpenter (top) and Jackie O'Neal     Inseparable friends and next door neighbors, they died 45 years ago today when a bluff of the Comite River caved in on them. They had just picked up their 9th grade report [...]

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Happy 95th Birthday to Mr. Gus Klebingot

16 June 2011

Submitted by Jim McCurry     Gus Klebingot celebrated his 95th birthday on June 5.  His daughter Kathy McCurry and her husband Jim hosted the celebration at Sammy's Grill.  Three of his grand children, seven great grandchildren, six great-great grandchildren and several friends and neighbors were in attendance.

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Lyndsey Browning to Marry Travis McGraw in Cabo, Mexico

16 June 2011

Submitted by Sharon Browning    Lyndsey Browning and Travis McGraw, both of Central, are to be married on June 18, 2011, in a beach setting in Cabo, Mexico.       Lyndsey is the daughter of Todd and Rhonda Browning, of Central.  She is a graduate of Central Private School and the Southeastern Louisiana University School of [...]

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School Board to Interview Law Firms

16 June 2011

    On Monday, June 20th, at 6 PM in the Central Middle School Library the School Board will interview two law firms which have applied to become the Central Community School System's Legal Counsel.  Law firms Decuir Clark & Adams and Hammonds & Sills will each give a twenty minute presentation to the School Board [...]

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Central’s Representatives at Work

16 June 2011

    Mayor Watts, Representative Clif Richardson and City Attorney Sheri Morris at a House committee hearing on House Bill 324.  The bill, if passed, will enable Central to hold Administrative Law hearings right here in Central under Judge Miley rather than having to go to District Court for items such as building code violations, zoning [...]

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Central Speaks with the Superintendent: An Interview with CCSS’s Mike Faulk

16 June 2011

    What do parents and students need to do to assist the School System for school to begin this fall? Any parent whose child did not attend Central last year really needs to register, to come in to be sure they have all of the proper documentation and then we can put their child in [...]

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