Aurora Borealis, a solar eclipse, Halley’s Comet…parish president at Planning Commission meeting; sighting any of these naturally occurring phenomena are exceedingly rare in Ascension Parish. But it happened Wednesday night when President Kenny Matassa entered the meeting chamber as the 780-lot Riverton subdivision preliminary plat was taken up. A divided commission approved the plat subject to […]
Ascension Planning Director Ricky Compton terminated
03/04/2016 by
Pelican Post just learned that Ascension Parish Planning Director Ricky Compton has been terminated. Human Resources took the action when Parish President Kenny Matassa declined to present Compton for ratification. Compton would not offer any statement for the record other than to confirm his termination. Compton has proposed a number of revisions to Ascension’s subdivision […]
Tommy Martinez, Kenny Matassa, and the TRUTH! (?)
11/07/2015 by
One Thursday just after Kenny Matassa announced his candidacy for Ascension’s Parish Presidency the current occupant of the position summoned, well invited, this writer to his Donaldsonville office. Tommy Martinez wanted to talk politics. Martinez insisted that he would neither support, nor endorse, any candidate but would stay abreast of the race like any ordinary […]
Candidate for Parish President responds to Tommy Martinez, thanking him for service
11/05/2015 by
EDITOR’s NOTE: Long claiming that he would endorse no candidate to succeed him, Parish President Tommy Martinez accused an unnamed “candidate” of “numerous falsehoods, half truths and outright lies” in a local weekly newspaper advertisement hitting the streets on Thursday. Martinez has consistently said that, when asked, “I will tell people I’m voting for Kenny […]
Council approves deal for CARA takeover of Animal Shelter
09/18/2015 by
Four months ago Companion Animal Rescue of Ascension (CARA) was barred from the parish Animal Shelter when threatening social media posts attributed to the group targeted the facility. And now CARA is set to take over daily operation of the Shelter on December 1 as the Parish Council approved a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement ceding control […]
Council authorizes President Martinez to negotiate purchase of water system; precursor to parish-wide sewer
06/19/2015 by
For the first time in several months Ascension’s council Utilities Committee met, but only after Parish President Tommy Martinez called for a Special Meeting on Thursday at the Courthouse Annex in Gonzales. A Special Meeting of the Finance Committee would follow before the regularly scheduled meeting of the full council. What could be so urgent? […]
Martinez concedes defeat on purely public sewer
03/29/2015 by
The realities of Ascension’s push toward parish-wide sewer have set in and certain elected officials, a lame duck parish president among them, have concluded that only a public/private partnership might realize the lofty ambition. Parish President Tommy Martinez told four members of the Utilities Committee as much last Wednesday. And then there is that $60 […]
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