Students spend more time planning prom than college finances This prom season high school girls will spend weeks struggling to find the perfect dress – will it be gold metallic, ravishing red, bright white or the hottest color? The dress is just the beginnin...
Walk for Memory If you have found it challenging to stick to an exercise plan this past year, listen up! Routine exercise isn’t just good for your physical health, new research has found when you ride a bike, hik...
Container, newly planted plants need special watering care Lots of new planting gets done every spring. Proper watering can make the difference between life and death to newly planted lawns, trees, shrubs and ground covers as well as bedding and vegetable ...
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Gen. Honore offers advice on building a strong family unit How can U.S. military core values be used by parents to build stronger families?
That’s what Lt. General Russel Honore’ (U.S. Army, retired) explained in his keynote address to some 600 members of ...
National Home Improvement Month tips for Homeowners While springtime was slow to arrive this year, the warmer weather is now here just in time for May’s National Home Improvement Month.
With so many home projects to tackle, where do you start? Accor...
Bird problems frustrate La. rice farmers Southwest Louisiana farmers are frustrated this year with a larger-than-usual number of birds eating rice seed, causing many farmers to replant.
In addition to the expense of replanting, farmers ar...
Vitex provides late spring, summer flowers One of the nicest small, flowering trees for Louisiana landscapes is the chaste tree or vitex (Vitex agnus-castus). Midspring through early summer is the main time for flowering on this increasingl...
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Thank you, Zachary! Many industries award their top performers or employees on an annual basis.
Zachary schools work hard to earn the top scores in the state year after year, and for this, they have been named the #1 ...
Marsh insect numbers continue to decline after 2010 oil spill The day after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig – April 21, 2010 – Linda Hooper-Bui, an LSU AgCenter entomologist, had a graduate student sampling insect populations in the marshes of ...
Bandana lantanas are Louisiana Super Plants Lantana (Lantana camara) is one of the first flowers I became aware of as a young child in Chalmette. After all, who could resist a plant so perfectly named with the common name “ham and eggs”?
The...
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Gun Bills By Pamela Mitchell, CAE
Executive Director
Louisiana Press Association
Wednesday, April 17, 2013, should go down in history as the day the Second Amendment trumped the First Amendment i...
Lantanas offer summer color; Bandana named Louisiana Super Plant Lantanas continue to be one of the most popular herbaceous perennials for Louisiana landscapes. Many varieties, some old and some new, offer a multitude of growth forms and flower colors. Lantanas ...
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