If you have a 337 or 504 area code you now have to dial all ten digits when calling locally. FCC Spokesperson Paloma Perez says it’s because those area codes have 988 exchanges which will be used in the future for a national suicide hotline. Perez says the change is being implemented now so callers in the specified area codes will be in the habit of dialing all ten digits well before the July 2022 launch of the 988 national counseling phone line.
If you’re hoping for a drop in gas prices sometime soon, Triple-A’s Don Redman says that doesn’t seem to be in the cards for now. The Louisiana average price of regular has climbed to three-15 a gallon. Redman says the higher gas prices not seen is seven years are being fueled by NO uptick in oil production by OPEC.
Cut 7 (10) “….more than anything.”
More trailers are now occupied by those who’ve registered with the state’s new program to help those displaced by Hurricane Ida to remain on their property. Mike Steele is the spokesperson for the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness…
State Treasurer John Schroder will stop in Alexandria, Columbia, Monroe and Shreveport to promote the ten-million-dollar Louisiana Loggers Relief Grant Program. He says loggers are eligible for a one-time grant of up to 25-thousand dollars. Louisiana Forestry Association Executive Director Buck Vandersteen says the logging industry worked through the pandemic, but many mills were closed to help slow the spread…