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SLCC selected by Amazon as an education partner

SLCC announced that it has been selected as an education partner for Amazon’s Career Choice program, providing Amazon’s hourly employees with access to all of SLCC’s credit-bearing programs.
Louisiana Supreme Court Justices attended the 70th annual Red Mass at St. Louis Cathedral. From left, are Chief Justice John Weimer, Justice Scott Crichton, Justice Jay McCallum, Justice William Crain, Justice Piper Griffin and Justice James Genovese. Genovese is from Opelousas. (Submitted photo)

Louisiana Supreme Court Justices attended the 70th annual Red Mass at St. Louis Cathedral. From left, are Chief Justice John Weimer, Justice Scott Crichton, Justice Jay McCallum, Justice William Crain, Justice Piper Griffin and Justice James Genovese. Genovese is from Opelousas. (Submitted photo)

70th annual Red Mass observed

As is the tradition to mark the opening of the judicial year, Louisiana judges gathered this morning for the 70th annual Red Mass at St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square. Red Mass is held annually on the first Monday in October. Archbishop Gregory M.
Dr. Amelie A. Hollier, left, and Harold G. Osborn III, right, are the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s 2022 Outstanding Alumni. The honorees are shown with Dr. Joseph Savoie, UL Lafayette president, during a Sept. 29 reception at the University’s Alumni Center. (Photo by Doug Dugas / University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Dr. Amelie A. Hollier, left, and Harold G. Osborn III, right, are the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s 2022 Outstanding Alumni. The honorees are shown with Dr. Joseph Savoie, UL Lafayette president, during a Sept. 29 reception at the University’s Alumni Center. (Photo by Doug Dugas / University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Hollier, Osborn named as UL Lafayette’s Outstanding Alumni

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Alumni Association has recognized Dr. Amelie A. Hollier and Harold G. Osborn III with the 2022 Outstanding Alumni Award. Hollier and Osborn received their awards during a reception held on Sept. 29 at the UL Lafayette Alumni Center.
Nearly 70 Louisiana National Guardsmen assigned to the 1087th Transportation Company, 165th Combat Sustainment and Support Brigade, 139th Regional Support Group, prepare roughly 30 tactical vehicles to assist emergency operations in Florida after Hurricane Ian, Slidell, Sept. 29. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Garrett Dipuma)

Nearly 70 Louisiana National Guardsmen assigned to the 1087th Transportation Company, 165th Combat Sustainment and Support Brigade, 139th Regional Support Group, prepare roughly 30 tactical vehicles to assist emergency operations in Florida after Hurricane Ian, Slidell, Sept. 29. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Garrett Dipuma)

La. Guard deploys to Florida after Hurricane Ian

The Louisiana National Guard (LANG) is responding to the Florida Department of Emergency Management’s request for assistance through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) process after Hurricane Ian, Sept. 30.
Southern magnolia is a native beauty resistant to strong winds. (Photo by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter )

Southern magnolia is a native beauty resistant to strong winds. (Photo by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter )

Plant more trees, please

Let’s talk about the weather. Even if you’re a climate change skeptic, you cannot deny that weather patterns have affected your life in some way in the past five to 10 years. Here in Louisiana, for example, many experienced unprecedented flooding in 2016.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is among the top 443 colleges and universities in the nation.

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is among the top 443 colleges and universities in the nation.

U.S. News & World Report ranks UL Lafayette among nation’s best

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is among the top 443 colleges and universities in the nation. That’s according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-2023 edition of “Best Colleges.” The annual guidebook was released Monday.
Ornamental pepper plants are the perfect way to both spruce up the late summer landscape and celebrate the transition into fall. (LSU AgCenter file photos)

Ornamental pepper plants are the perfect way to both spruce up the late summer landscape and celebrate the transition into fall. (LSU AgCenter file photos)

Plant ornamental peppers for spicy fall flair

The South has no reason for fall foliage envy. The traditional colors of autumn can be found in ornamental peppers — which can be planted into any sunny landscape to add spice and fall flair.
A whooping crane cares for its chick, hatched during the 2022 nesting season in Louisiana.

A whooping crane cares for its chick, hatched during the 2022 nesting season in Louisiana.

La. whooping crane population adds record 8 wild hatched chicks

The 2022 breeding season was a big success for Louisiana’s experimental whooping crane project as eight wild hatched chicks have fledged and been added to the Louisiana population.
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser announces the addition of three golf courses to the Audubon Golf Trail (AGT). The three courses include Mallard Golf Club in Lake Charles, Farm d’Allie Golf Club in Carencro, and The Island Golf Club in Plaquemine.

Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser announces the addition of three golf courses to the Audubon Golf Trail (AGT). The three courses include Mallard Golf Club in Lake Charles, Farm d’Allie Golf Club in Carencro, and The Island Golf Club in Plaquemine.

Louisiana’s golf trail increases to 18 courses with Lake Charles, Carencro and Plaquemine

Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser announces the addition of three golf courses to the Audubon Golf Trail (AGT). The three courses include Mallard Golf Club in Lake Charles, Farm d’Allie Golf Club in Carencro, and The Island Golf Club in Plaquemine.

La. hydrogen projects wins $50M federal grant

A groundbreaking plan to create an offshore wind-powered hydrogen energy industry cluster in south Louisiana has been awarded $50 million from the Build Back Better Challenge, the U.S. Economic Development Administration announced today.