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Baker's Back-to-School Assembley held Aug. 9 featured from left: Ulysses Joseph, interim superintendent of Baker School System; Robert Jackson of Indianapolis, guest speaker; and Dr. Dana Carpenter, president, Baker School Board. (PHOTO/Pat Roberson)
Baker holds Back-to-School Assembly
The Baker Municipal Auditorium was packed as principals, teachers, school staffs, transportation, food service workers and school board members gathered Aug. 9 to welcome the start of a new school ...
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Choir director Melanie Alexander leads the third grade choir from Zachary Elementary through several choral selections during the annual back-to-school assembly for the Zachary Community School District Aug. 10. (PHOTO/Stacy Gill)
Zachary School District expects to go 'beyond boundaries'
The Zachary Community School District filled Fellowship Church with more than 600 of its personnel with its administrators, teachers, paraprofessionals, school board members, school faculty members...
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Photo of a live oak. (PHOTO/Submitted)
LSU to remove Steele Burden live oak
During the week of Aug. 8, LSU Facility Services will be removing the Steele Burden Live Oak located near the natatorium, which was struck by lightning in May 2010 and died despite arborists’ effor...
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LSU libraries granted additional funding for digitizing Louisiana newspapers
In July, the LSU Libraries’ Special Collections division was awarded $285,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, or NEH, to digitize an additional 100,000 pages of Louisiana newspapers...
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Call LSU Police immediately at 225-578-3231 or you may submit anonymous 
information via www.lsu.edu/police if you have information on this suspect. (PHOTO/Submitted)
Help LSU Police identify stolen check suspect
LSU Police are asking the public's help in identifying a female suspect who used stolen checks between Saturday, July 23 and Tuesday, July 26, 2011, at multiple retailers in the cities of Walker a...
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Baker City Court Judge Kirk Williams is up a ladder trimming branches as Baker Police Chief Mike "Snapper" Knaps assists during the Baker High School Clean Up Day held July 29. Eishmel Spears Jr. looks on. (PHOTO/Patt Roberson)
Baker High gets spruced up
Athletes, teachers, friends and other volunteers rolled up their sleeves and spent July 29 on an energetic adventure to give Baker High School a much needed facelift. The work included exterior an...
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Dr. Bernard Harris, third from left, and an ExxonMobil volunteer, far left, work with area kids at the Summer Science Camp held at Southern University July 15. (PHOTO/Submitted)
Former astronaut Harris urges students to "never limit” themselves
The first African-American astronaut to walk in space told middle school students at Southern University to “never limit yourself,” and suggested that “science will open up a world of possibilities...
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Central Louisiana Area Health Education Center and Lane Regional Medical Center's "AHEC of a Summer" participants included front, from left: Evan Rivere, Angel Norwood, Jean Marie Hill and Maria Mondello. Second row, from left: Michael Hawkins, Jasmine Blunt, Ikenna Nzewi, Karlyn Aucoin, Melissa Ellis, Valinda Wade and Bria Curtis. Back row, from left: Bradleigh Brignac, Lance Dautel, Christina Bell, Aspen Thornton and Ronnice Washington. (PHOTO/Submitted)
It was "AHEC of a Summer" at Lane RMC
Lane Regional Medical Center, through a partnership with the Central Louisiana Area Health Education Center (CLAHEC) hosted a summer health careers volunteer program for area high school students e...
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Parents, teens must prepare for high school
Richard C. Bogren/LSUAgCenter
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Middle school marks transitions in body and mind
Richard C. Bogren/LSU Ag Center
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Reassure your grade-schooler before school begins
A few weeks before elementary school begins, remind your child that school is starting and pay attention to your child’s reactions, says LSU AgCenter family and child development specialist Linda R...
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Hosted by the College of Engineering (CoE), this year’s HSTEAP participants included: Lori Falgout, Zachary High School; Bryan Heikes, Zachary High School; Kelly Haynes, Baker High School; LaRon McCurry, Baker High School; Aimee Welch, LSU Laboratory School; Allie Jenkins, Varnado High School; Donna McCarthy, LSU Laboratory School; Eleonor Cayari, Istrouma High School; Greaselda Abram, Varnado High School; Jalel Ben Hmida, Lafayette High School; Jessica Hungerford, South Beauregard High School; Julie Owens, LSU Laboratory High School; Katrina Pommerening, Academy of the Sacred Heart; Ma Leticia Zaporteza, Istrouma High School; Mark Boudreaux, South Terrebonne High School; Michelle Miller, Ponchatoula High School; Nathan Cotten, South Terrebonne High School; Nick Richert, Lafayette High School; Rebecka Rocquin, Ponchatoula High School; Sarah LaBouef, South Beauregard High School; Susan Gingold, Academy of the Sacred Heart; Daryl Savage, Ruston High School; Elaine Johnson, Broadmoor High School; Emile Frey, Ruston High School; Janell Coffman, Bolton High School; John Lappin, Broadmoor High School; Natalie Nettles, Peabody High School; Pamela Granier, Central High School; and Wiley “Danny” Iverstine, Central High School. (PHOTO/LSU)
Local teachers leap into Marathon HSTEAP program
Nearly 30 Louisiana high school teachers gathered June 6-10 on LSU’s campus for the Marathon High School Teacher Engineering Awareness Program (HSTEAP). Sponsored by Marathon Oil Company, HSTEAP i...
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