+8 News Ascension Parish skate park's closure to make way for senior wellness center upsets skateboarders BY DAVID J. MITCHELL | dmitchell@theadvocate.com Mar 31, 2019 GONZALES — It’s painful for Branden Bennett to see what’s happening to the skate park that he and a few of his buddies from St. Amant High wor…
+3 News Sharp words shared over Lamar-Dixon gym expansion but project proceeds BY DAVID J. MITCHELL | dmitchell@theadvocate.com Mar 27, 2019 GONZALES — Ascension Parish Councilman Todd Lambert charged that a planned expansion of the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center gym is the product of back…
+2 News What's in Ascension Parish's 'very aggressive' 2019 budget? Improved roads, new drainage structures, more BY DAVID J. MITCHELL | dmitchell@theadvocate.com Nov 16, 2018 GONZALES — Ascension Parish government's $210.4 million budget for 2019 anticipates using more than half its spending next year on a "very agg…
News Fired Ascension HR director secretly copied these confidential records, suit alleges BY DAVID J. MITCHELL | dmitchell@theadvocate.com Nov 14, 2018 GONZALES — Ascension Parish's fired human resources director secretly copied or took without authorization confidential personnel records the …
News Embattled Baton Rouge contractor Matthew Morris wants seized electronics returned BY DAVID J. MITCHELL | dmitchell@theadvocate.com May 16, 2017 GONZALES — Prosecutors in Ascension Parish agreed Tuesday to drop a bid to revoke $635,000 bail for jailed Baton Rouge contractor Matthew J. M…