Rabalais Homes: Dreams Within Reach

27 January 2012

   Owner Steve Rabalais (right) with his assistant Rebecca Pihl     Paid Business Spotlight by Mia Freneaux     Everyone’s wish is to own a beautiful, comfortable, affordable home with personalized amenities and signature decor. Enter Rabalais Homes, LLC, one of Baton Rouge Business Report’s Top Twenty Builders for three years.  With twenty-plus years’ [...]

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CHS Bowling Schedule

27 January 2012

  All matches are District 5A matches & at 3:20PM   Thursday 1-19-12 (Jamboree) Central vs Tara vs Baker vs Runnels (All Star Lanes) Monday 1-23-12 Scotlandville vs Central (All Star Lanes) Thursday 1-26-12 Central vs Zachary (Metro Bowl) Monday 1-30-12 Denham Springs vs Central (All Star Lanes) Thursday 2-2-12 Central vs Catholic (Circle Bowl) [...]

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CHS Bowling Team News

27 January 2012

CENTRAL BOWLING TEAM WINS JAMBOREE Central High started their season with a convincing victory, a 4-Team Jamboree consisting of Central, Tara, Baker and Runnels this past Thursday (1-19-12). In the opening matches (2 games), Central cruised easily by defeating Tara 16-0, while Baker defeated Runnels in a closer match.   Central was led by Jacob [...]

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The History of the Old Browning Store

27 January 2012

  By Mia Freneaux   Garnett Browning Pollard smiles and asks in her soft southern drawl if we'd like a Coke.  Vicki Carney and I have come to interview the 92 year old Central native about her father Ed Browning's store, located at the corner of Pride and Greenwell Springs Road in Baywood.  The family [...]

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Healthy Recipe: Eggplant Parmesan

27 January 2012

    Central Speaks will now be running periodical healthy recipes to promote health and wellness throughout the year. This recipes will be provided by Central resident Rachel Firmin, a Dietetics student at Louisiana State University with a passion for healthy living and healthy eating. These recipes will focus on whole, unprocessed foods with great [...]

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A Veterans Memorial Park in Central

27 January 2012

  By Dave Freneaux   Central Veterans Helping Veterans, a nonprofit organization is working with the Central Community School System to establish an Educational Veterans Memorial Park.  The school system owns 3/4 of an acre next to the Masonic Lodge across Sullivan Road from the Middle School.  This triangular lot once had a house on [...]

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RFQ for Consultants for City of Central

27 January 2012

      The city of Central is seeking consulting services for the transportation element of our comprehensive Master Plan.  The city of Central requests qualifications from qualified consultants who have expertise in transportation planning and travel demand modeling to assist the City’s professional staff and its Master Plan consulting firm in finalizing the city [...]

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Preventing and Treating Onychomycosis

27 January 2012

  By Dr. Keith Holmes, Ochsner Health Cntr       For those suffering from a fungal nail infection, simple things such as wearing open toe shoes or shaking someone’s hand can be embarrassing.   Microorganisms that thrive in warm, moist environments, such as the inside of an enclosed shoe, are most often to blame [...]

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Rich and Meghan Mansur Welcome Daughter Eliana Faith

27 January 2012

    Congratulations to Rich and Meghan Mansur of Walker, LA on the birth of their daughter Eliana Faith Mansur.  Eliana was born at Woman’s Hospital on October 7, 2011 at 7:41 p.m. weighing 8lbs, 6oz.     Proud grandparents are Susan Gray of Central, LA, Thomas Gray of Springfield, LA, and Tracy and Irene [...]

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Letter to the Editor – To Loop or Not to Loop: Central’s Choice

26 January 2012

  For the past five years Woody Jenkins, editor of the Central City News, has been warning Central about the Baton Rouge Loop.  In editorials and bleak headlines he has prophesized the loop “would deliver all the problems of the nation right to the heart of Central,” and “forever change the community for the worse,” [...]

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