BENTON, La. District 5 Bossier Parish Police Jury member Jack “Bump” Skaggs announced his retirement from the public body Wednesday, telling his cohorts that a career move made it
BENTON, La. Bossier Parish will remain in the business of picking up certain trash and debris at no charge to homeowners. But parameters will be established to determine what will qualify for removal.
Members of the police jury voted Wednesday to accept recommendations from the Road/Subdivision Regulations Committee approving continued service that began as massive cleanup campaigns following floods in 2015 and 2016, tornadoes and a hurricane.
Committee Chairman Glenn Benton of District 2 said the Police Jury has already spent just over $10,000 this year to dispose of items that have been picked up by the highway departmentâs crews.
âAnd that number does not include labor and equipment costs,â Benton said. âWe need to extend this service beyond the emergencies because if we donât, there will be items dumped on abandoned roads all over the parish.â
Mandatory mask mandates altered in Bossier, Caddo parishes
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BOSSIER PARISH, La. (KSLA) - Bossier Parish and Bossier City announced Wednesday, April 28, they are lifting their mandatory mask mandates.
“We are going to relax the requirement and no longer require our employees to wear them in public,” Bossier City Mayor Lo Walker said. “We will also put signs on the door telling citizens who come in it’s their choice or not. So we are going to significantly relax the requirement for mask wearing based on the latest proclamation. For all practical purposes, it’s in place right now, but I am still waiting for input from the city council to see that we are in agreement. I feel pretty comfortable that my administration and the council will agree to a relaxed mask requirement in public.”
SHREVEPORT, La - The City of Shreveport says hosting Bayou Classic and Port City Fest was the first big step to rebuilding the local economy.
âWe are looking at 2021 to be a revitalization year for our city,â said Mayor Adrian Perkins.âOur community has been forced to overcome unprecedented challenges over the past year. As we make tremendous gains in our fight against COVID-19, we must prepare for the future and build a stronger financial outlook for our citizens.â
City officials say the Port City Fest events like Party on the Red hosted by Rho Omega & Friends and the Classic Business Expo organized by the Shreveport-Bossier African American Chamber of Commerce garnered more than 4,000 attendees with no major incidents.