Aug 17, 2018
By Letters to the Editor, NOLA.com The Times-Picayune On Feb. 3, 2014, the newly constructed USS Somerset, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock of the United States Navy, left Avondale Shipyard to great media fanfare and bittersweet waves. For seven decades,...
Feb 26, 2018
The Jefferson Business Council presented Haynes Academy teacher Traci Vedros (center) with the Lucien Gunter Excellence In Teaching Award during today's JPPSS Teacher of the Year Awards Ceremony Luncheon. JBC Chairman Larry Katz (left) and JBC Executive Director Tony...
Feb 20, 2018
Over sixty people attended Louisiana's first-ever Early Ed Week, held January 29 to February 2 across the state. Early Ed Week is a focused campaign for business leaders and legislators to highlight the need to increase access to high quality early care and education...
Dec 4, 2017
Enrollment for January 2018 session now open; Jefferson Parish applicants required to attend information session December 11 Ochsner Health System, Jefferson Parish and the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) recently announced plans to expand Ochsner’s Medical...
Sep 21, 2017
The Jefferson Business Council, an organization consisting of 59 major Jefferson Parish business owners and chief executive officers, has voted to support the renewal of two expiring transit millages that will be on the October 14th ballot. One of the millages, which...
Jul 27, 2017
The retirement of Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand and the legacy that he and the late Sheriff Harry Lee have left behind serves to emphasize the absolute importance public safety is to any community. Quality of life suffers and economic vitality is...
