Louisiana Fisheries is set to receive $73 million in Federal Assistance. Brooke Thorington explains.
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LSU Interim President Thomas Galligan says students will have to wear masks when they return to campus in fall. Matt Doyle has more.
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Ten Nicholls State students and ten Lafourche Parish Correctional Complex inmates spent the semester learning together about the criminal justice system in a first of its kind class in Louisiana. Matt Doyle has more.
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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is set to receive $73 Million in Federal Assistance to help the state’s fishing industry offset financial losses from freshwater flooding in 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic. LDWF Assistant Secretary Patrick Banks says the total estimated loss to the industry for flooding last year is $338 million, but any assistance appreciated.
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Banks says LDWF must develop a spending plan for the funds before they are received. They are comprised of $58.3 million from NOAA and $14.7 million from CARES. Banks explains how the CARES money could be used in the saltwater industry.
The NOAA funds of $58 million are for recovery after freshwater flooding from the opening of the Bonne Carre Spillway last year.
Banks anticipates that some of that funding could also be used for direct aid payments.
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LSU officials are excited to welcome students back to campus in fall but warn campus life, while vibrant, will not be the same.
Interim President Thomas Galligan says alongside their notebooks and other class supplies students will need to pack a mask before leaving their dorms…
Provost Stacia Haynie says smaller classes will be moved to larger classrooms to allow for social distancing, and…
Galligan says it is certainly possible people will have to wear masks at football games.
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According to the RV Industry Association, RV sales are up by as much as 170 percent compared to this time last year. Operational Manager for RV Masters in Kenner Jeff Charrier says the allure of an RV is clear right now…
RV Masters does repair and service work for RVs.
It’s not just new customers that are taking a renewed interest in RVs, Charrier says when the pandemic first started they received a wave of return customers…
Charrier has some advice for anyone interested in buying an RV for the first time: inspect it front to back before you hand over your credit card.
Charrier says RV Masters does pre-purchase inspections.
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Nicholls State students wrap up the first inaugural class of a program that pairs ten students with ten inmates for one semester to teach both groups about the criminal justice system.
Inside Out Program facilitator Kristen Callais says the program is the first of its kind in Louisiana.
The program was done in cooperation with Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre and the Lafourche Parish Correctional Complex.
Callais says students learned about inmates’ backgrounds and how those backgrounds influenced where they ended up.
Calais the class wrapped up earlier this month despite pandemic-related challenges with an online group project via webcam and some fun back and forths…
The initial plan was to close the class by having a gathering at Nichols with the inmates, students, the Sherriff, Congressman Garret Graves, and others,
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