“We’re not doing cost of living this year,” Councilwoman Terri Lambert declared on Tuesday during a Special Working Meeting of Gonzales’ City Council, a workshop called by Mayor Tim Riley intended to avert a budget fiasco like the one embarrassing the city in 2025.  “What’s funny?” Lambert challenged a handful of city employees taken aback […]

Five years have elapsed since voters approved the sale of Ascension’s “wastewater utility system…and grant franchises to operate same to National Water Infrastructure (NWI).”  Last week a unanimous Parish Council resolved to execute an agreement with East Ascension Drainage Commission (EAD) to expedite the ” in the planning, acquiring and/or improving public projects, and providing […]

Loving Our Community Children (LOCC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to serving and uplifting youth and families, proudly celebrated its Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony yesterday at its new location, 320 East Ascension Street, Suite 107, Gonzales, Louisiana.  LOCC board members and volunteers were joined by Mayor Tim Riley and Councilman Eddie Williams with City […]

Gonzales’ City Council received 2024-25 Fiscal Year financial audit, focused on “three instances of non-compliance with Louisiana Public Bid Law.”  Engaged in mid-2025, Ericksen Krentel completed the audit at the end of February in stark contrast to years past.  The firm, without identifying the “vendor,” specifically criticized a sidewalk rehabilitation job given to Liberty Fence […]

City Council votes don’t come much easier than Monday’s agenda item to approve a Community Partnership with Loving Our Community’s Children (LOCC).  With a mission statement to “partner with the community to provide children and families with reliable, no-cost support that meets daily needs and fosters dignity, stability, and healing” and record of success…this was […]

Without a word of discussion last night, Ascension Parish Council approved an amended Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Gonzales to program baseball fields inside the city.  It was accomplished on the first try by the parish governing authority, just in time for AP Baseball to commence operations on schedule Monday.  The parish vote came on […]

Dantin Bruce Development’s Ross Bruce proudly proclaimed that his firm has built over 1,000 homesites in Ascension Parish over the years, hoping to add another 115 to the total at Wednesday’s meeting of the Planning Commission.  It was not to be as five commissioners, with two abstentions, voted to reject Harvest Fields subdivision preliminary plat, oblivious to […]

In late 2024 Gonzales’ interim mayor, Ryland Percy, inked an agreement with Impact Sports (which operates AP Baseball), as did Ascension Parish President Clint Cointment in anticipation of the 2025 season.  Ascension’s Parish Council approved a new agreement with AP Baseball in October, commencing negotiations with the city in lieu of Gonzales doing another deal […]

Three Gonzales City Council members rejected an agreement with Ascension Parish to clear the way for AP Baseball and Gonzales’ Diamond Youth leagues to play ball this year.  It was the third time this council considered the agreement after deferring consideration on December 8 and rejecting the agreement on January 12.  Mayor Tim Riley placed […]

Ascension Parish Councilman Joel Robert was sued yesterday, the Petition for Damages alleging that Robert made “false, scandalous and defamatory” allegations about the petitioner, Gerald Phillips, Jr.  Petitioner is the spouse of Ruth Phillips who happens to be one of Parish President Clint Cointment’s top aides.  The suit stems from a social media back and […]