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1. City steps in to address overgrowth at historic downtown homesite (rapidesparishjournal.com) — Alexandria city crews have finally cleared heavy overgrowth around the historic Arna Bontemps House downtown, even as questions linger over the museum's future. With the foundation defunct and the house deteriorating, city planners say enforcement and redevelopment are complicated and costly, leaving residents and officials searching for a path forward for this important cultural landmark.
2. New rules for Alexandria homebuyer assistance program (cenlanow.com) — Alexandria has tightened rules for its federally funded Homebuyer Assistance Program, requiring buyers to live in their homes for 5 to 15 years depending on aid received. Eligible low- to moderate-income residents can still get up to $55,000 toward a home inside city limits, plus access to rehabilitation funds and priority help for seniors through the Community Development Department.
3. Back-to-school stress: Advocate warns of vaping, tobacco pressures on students (ksla.com) — As Alexandria students head back to class, a local tobacco prevention advocate is warning families that school stress and peer pressure can push teens toward vaping and other tobacco use. She urges kids to lean on trusted adults instead and notes Louisiana's teen vaping rate is among the nation's highest, making early conversations and support especially important for Central Louisiana families.
4. Louisiana Central Wins Two Major SEDC Honors (klax-tv.com) — An Alexandria-based nonprofit, Louisiana Central, just earned two top Southern Economic Development Council awards for its entrepreneur support program and a 10-parish roadshow showcasing Central Louisiana manufacturers. The recognition highlights how local coaching, funding, and storytelling are helping create jobs, grow scalable businesses, and raise the region's profile far beyond Alexandria.
5. Ninth Judicial District Court judge appointed to Judiciary Commission of Louisiana (rapidesparishjournal.com) — A former Alexandria chief of police, now Ninth Judicial District Court Judge Loren Lampert, has been appointed to the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana for a four-year term. His long career in prosecution, policing, and judicial leadership means Alexandria's legal community will have a direct voice in statewide judicial oversight and ethics decisions.
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