“A system failure” led to “the City of Gonzales getting ripped off” by an unlicensed fence company contracted to provide various services in 2024.  That was the assessment of Mayor Tim Riley’s administration at Monday’s discussion of vendor report regarding Liberty Fence & Supply, LLC.  Representing the administration, longtime Riley advisor Wade Petite opined that […]

Delaune Estates’ preliminary plat consisting of 237 lots west of Hwy 73, south of White Road in Prairieville was approved on July 14, 2021 (the day before an 11-month subdivision moratorium went into effect.  Its Final Plat was approved by Ascension’s Planning Commission last night.  Also on the agenda was the first preliminary plat to […]

Tim Riley is Mayor-Elect for the City of Gonzales after winning 54% of the runoff vote as more than half of the November 5 Primary Election voters opted out.  He succeeds Interim Mayor Ryland Percy whose steady hand stabilized City Hall and effectuated certain necessary changes left too long in place.  Four-term incumbent Chief of […]

When the votes were tallied in Gonzales’ four-candidate contest for mayor on November 5 a clear favorite had emerged to bedevil two political factions bent on retention of power in one of Louisiana’s most fiscally sound municipalities.  Situated at the heart of Ascension Parish, arguably the state’s most well-to-do (depending upon the metric), money and […]

Published in anticipation of the 2023 election, amidst baseless allegations unfettered by any actual proof of fraudulent voting, Ascension’s Clerk of Court Bridget Hanna felt compelled to address the noise.  With one side of the presidential campaign setting up a fraud claim should it lose, Ascension seems to have ignored the stolen election nonsense (due, […]

“There are two (drainage) projects that are transformational,” Parish President/EA Drainage Director Clint Cointment addressed East Ascension Drainage Commission earlier this week. “New River Stormwater Management Pump Station (depicted in the artist’s rendering above) and Sorrento Storm Surge Protection.” The latter is an extension of the West Shore (Lake Pontchartrain Risk Reduction) Project, from which […]

Parish President Clint Cointment has argued for a New River Pump Station, depositing potential flood waters into the Mississippi River, for most of his five-year tenure (and long before anyone else thought it was doable).  Initially going it alone (we do not recall any other elected/appointed official joining the Cointment crusade until recently), Ascension’s chief […]

Parish President Clint Cointment Thursday signed the transfer of assets of the sewer treatment system, marking a significant milestone in resolving the longstanding sewer infrastructure issue in Ascension Parish. National Water Infrastructure (NWI) has acquired the Parish’s sewer system for $9.2 million, solidifying a partnership that began as a franchise agreement in 2021 under a […]