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UNSUNG heroes were celebrated with a festive extravanganza at Webbs Garden Centre.

Port of South Louisiana Executive Director Paul Aucoin has been named the 2021 recipient of the C. Alvin Bertel Award.

bcoupland@tribtoday.com BAZETTA — After eight years as a township trustee and six years as a zoning board member, Trustee Ted Webb announced Tuesday he will retire from public office at the end of the year. Webb, who has retired from and sold his graphic design / plate-making business, said at the trustees meeting he wants to spend more time with his family and will not seek re-election in November. Trustee Frank Parke also has indicated he will not seek re-election this year. “It’s time ...

April 20, 2021 By Waterways Journal Paul Aucoin, executive director of the Port of South Louisiana, is one of four newly appointed members of the World Trade Center of New Orleans’ board of directors. The three other new board members are Michael Hecht, president and CEO of Greater New Orleans Inc.; Heather Hohensee, Tellurian Inc.’s government and public affairs director; and Dolph Parro, executive vice president of Republic N...

Councilman Guido Maniscalco said he and city staff would bring the issue back up in two weeks. Webb passed away Tuesday, a few days after ending dialysis and relocating to a hospice. A staff report points out that there are two processes for renaming a portion of a street after a well-known person. One involves a resolution from the Florida Legislature. In the other, the city can simply name a section of road after a person without legislative approval, presumably when roads controlled by the...

Feb 21, 2021 BAZETTA — Township trustees at their meeting this week accepted the resignation of Fiscal Officer Cynthia Chapman, who is stepping down for personal reasons. Trustee Chairman Ted Webb said Chapman, who replaced Jean Eddy in January 2020, has a full-time job at Taylor Steel. In 2020, Chapman was selected from four applicants who sought the position and holds an accounting background. Webb said trustees will address how to fill the position soon in handling township finances. NEWSL...

Staff report HOWLAND — Trumbull County Council of Governments is seeking grant funding to get face mask testers to be used by 20 fire departments and districts. These departments and districts are on member communities of the COG. Bazetta Trustee Ted Webb said COG at a recent meeting approved having Bazetta Fire Chief Dennis Lewis apply for the grant for the tester — which checks face masks for their condition and usage. Also, COG discussed the possibility of funds for demolitions of prope...

PRESENT: Ted Webb, Bob McBride and Frank Parke Trustees: • Approved Webb as chairman and McBride as vice chairman; • Approved appointments: Webb to zoning and police departments, McBride to fire department and Parke to road department; • Heard from Parke they will seek bids in February for the construction of a new utility building at Hillside Cemetery, which was destroyed by a tornado in January 2019. Plans are to approve bids in March or April and break ground on the building i...

PRESENT: Ted Webb, Bob McBride and Frank Parke Trustees: • Heard from Webb plans for next year are to have separate credit cards for each department head instead of one credit card being used by all departments. Road supervisor Kris Parke’s credit card covers three departments of cemetery, roads and parks. Officials said this will help fiscal officer Cynthia Chapman know where each expense came from; • Heard from fire Chief Dennis Lewis, who was at the Burghill Vernon Fire Departme...

His team left every fibre, every cuticle out on that field and yet, for the last 10 minutes or so, Dublin were rolling home with all the ease of a pleasure steamer. We are just stenographers in their world now, tasked with transcribing the small detail of outlandish numbers. They are an imperious, undramatic team built to work through these days logically and without fuss. It’s true that nobody rattles Dublin physically quite like Mayo, yet where is the comfort in that after eight years witho...