Brooke Robichaux

LAPLACE — St. Charles Catholic’s volleyball team has high hopes of becoming repeat district champions. Last season saw the Lady Comets advance to the quarterfinals and attain the highest LHSAA power ranking in nearly 20 years. Several seniors from last year’s team graduated in May, leaving big shoes to fill among a new group of […]

Decades in the making, Karen Clausen Becnel’s “My Louisiana” Cookbook infuses tried and true Cajun recipes with a treasure trove of family stories that have been passed down through the generations. Becnel first tried her hand at writing a cookbook when she got married. Through the years, she put it down and picked it up […]

Hahnville – The Department of Wastewater will begin work on Monday, September 18, 2023, with contractor BLD Services to clean and inspect the gravity sewer in preparation for the slip lining improvements that will begin later this year. Intermittent lane closures along Barton Ave. from River Rd. to Rex St. should be expected, but one […]

LAPLACE — Robert Cox will never forget the day his father met him underneath a pecan tree in Grand Point and told him it was time he took over the family business. The year was 1992. Henry Cox had just turned 65 and was ready to retire from the store he’d worked in from the […]

RESERVE — Last Friday’s 43-0 shutout against Central Catholic was promising, but head football coach Lee Roussel said Riverside Academy has a lot of work to do to become playoff contenders. The first three weeks of play have revealed an abundance of penalties and room for improvement in all phases of the game. However, the […]

LAPLACE — When Ava’lyn Harris was diagnosed with autism at 4 years old, her family quickly adopted the mantra that she has autism, but autism doesn’t have her. Determined to try anything at least once, she embraces every new challenge with an optimistic outlook. Ava’lyn is now breaking barriers as the first child on the […]

In recent years (10), keeping student performance up in our parish is getting worse. Our students are working with ghost staffing, uncertified staff and many substitutes. We were supposed to be notified in the beginning of the year that we may request, and the local will provide, information regarding whether professionals are highly effective, including […]

LAPLACE — The St. John the Baptist Parish School Board is taking steps to address a backlog of unprocessed teacher certifications that has in some cases caused school employees to lose out on money. During last week’s meeting in Reserve, the St. John the Baptist Parish School Board approved Interim Superintendent Kendria Spears’ request to […]

September 14, 2023 was my six-year anniversary with L’OBSERVATEUR. September 19 marked my last day with the company. A lot has changed since my first day. I rolled into the parking lot as a nervous 22-year-old who had just graduated from college. I had no work experience aside from a couple of college internships and […]

LAPLACE — With 15 years and counting in the legal profession, Rosalyn Ruffin-Duley of LaPlace knows she is fulfilling her life’s purpose each day she assists families in the River Parishes and beyond with auto accident, personal injury and family law cases. Ruffin-Duley was fascinated with the legal profession from the time she was 12 […]