Red Stick Revelry going virtual with Red Stick drop (Source: WAFB) By WAFB Staff | December 31, 2020 at 5:17 PM CST - Updated January 1 at 1:04 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Safely watch from home as we live stream the red stick drop from Baton Rouge. Red Stick Revelry is going virtual in 2020.
Starting at 11:45 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, a livestream program featuring Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, Visit Baton Rouge President and CEO Paul Arrigo and other special guests will kick off the countdown to 2021.
When you like, comment or share the livestream, you’re automatically entered to win a VIP package to next year’s event.
Spanish Town Mardi Gras parade canceled; board hoping to reschedule
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BATON ROUGE - Amid ongoing COVID-19 concerns, the 2021 Spanish Town Mardi Gras parade won t roll through downtown on Feb. 13, after the city-parish did not approve plans, board president Robert King tells WBRZ.
While officials hope to reschedule the 41st installment of the pink parade later in the year, it s unclear when that would be.
As other Baton Rouge Mardi Gras krewes, like Orion and Southdowns, previously nixed plans for their 2021 parades, Spanish Town officials had been holding out hope.
Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome s administration is hoping to address East Baton Rouge Parish s homelessness plight through a set of goals intended to address trauma, reduce the number of encampments in the city-parish, and curtail littering and panhandling in 2021.Â
The goals, which were announced this month, are being implemented through various partnerships Broome has established through the Mayor s Homelessness Prevention Coalition. The eight goals we ve outlined definitely show the need, in terms of overall priorities within homelessness prevention, said Pamela Ravare-Jones, one of Broome s assistant chief administrative officers. Affordable housing is a big piece. Another immediate win: the Mayor s Office is looking to implement our community awareness campaign which includes anti-littering messaging and panhandling.
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News that an inmate of the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison died last weekend came at a pivotal time for the private company in charge of prisoner medical care, which could lose its contract in the coming months.
City officials announced earlier this year their decision to solicit proposals for a new contract, acknowledging the outsized inmate death rate and other concerns about CorrectHealth, the company now in charge. That request for proposal process is finally about to get started and officials expect to have a new contract in place before summer â either with CorrectHealth or with a different provider.