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Breaux Bridge — The city fathers are scrutinizing the local policy toward itinerate vendors.

Breaux Bridge — The Breaux Bridge Area Chamber of Commerce will honor Bruce Montesano and the late Earl Broussard with its Distinguished Citizen award at this year’s banquet.

The annual event will be held Thursday, Jan. 31, at the Atchafalaya Club in Henderson, starting at 5:45 p.m.

New Orleans — The Louisiana Supreme Court rejected claims last Wednesday that convicted serial killer Derrick Todd Lee was mentally retarded. Lee’s legal team argued that he should not have been tried in East Baton Rouge Parish for the 2002 murder of Charlotte Murray Pace.

Ken Grissom

Breaux Bridge — The City Council last week denied a request by owners of the Shell station north of I-10 for a zoning change that would allow them to operate a truck stop casino at the 2129 Anse Broussard Highway location.

Sally Angelle

Breaux Bridge — Artist Ginger Kelly, who specializes in one-of-a-kind pieces, designs and makes jewelry, glass tiles and tables, has opened an art gallery in downtown Breaux Bridge.

St. Martinville Mayor Thomas Nelson asks city worker Kirk Lasseigne how he likes operating the city’s new street sweeper, bought with money borrowed against a new one-cent sales tax. The promise of that sweeper helped the tax get passed by the voters, Nelson says

Ken Grissom

Breaux Bridge — Automated garbage collection is coming here soon.

Bobby Guidry of Allied Waste Services said March 3 is the target date to commence the service.

Love the cooler weather! It’s really beautiful outside with the exception of the dead vegetation compliments of the big freeze. I am still picking broccoli, Swiss chard and Romaine lettuce, but that’s about it.

Robert R. Jones III

St. Martinville — Artist, musician and spiritual philosopher Dennis Paul Williams is a unique child to St. Martinville, and one who perhaps exemplifies the best of his hometown community.

Breaux Bridge — On the whole, business here apparently didn’t suffer that much from the closure of I-10 for a week and a half while workers capped a gas well blowout scarcely a football field away from the twin spans over the Atchafalaya Basin.