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Today's riddle: Why did the man leave his watch in the bank? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Are You Emergency Ready? (brparents.com) — Baton Rouge residents get step-by-step guidance here for preparing before floods, hurricanes, and dangerous summer heat, including how to sign up for East Baton Rouge emergency alerts. The guide walks you through evacuation planning, hurricane kits, generator and cleanup safety, and pet preparedness, plus where to find local resources and cooling centers when conditions turn extreme.
2. Former head of Baton Rouge tourism returning to help modernize aging River Center, downtown (wbrz.com) — Baton Rouge is bringing back former tourism chief Butch Spyridon to guide a major expansion and modernization of the Raising Cane's River Center and push for a new downtown headquarters hotel. Over the next two years, he'll work with Visit Baton Rouge, the Metro Council, and other partners on a plan city leaders say could significantly boost conventions, events, and the local economy.
3. EBR leaders set to repair potholes on Lee Drive before larger road project (wafb.com) — If you drive Lee Drive in Baton Rouge, expect short-term relief soon: the city-parish plans an overlay from Perkins to Highland to patch the worst potholes before a major widening project. Leaders say the long-term plan includes more lanes, better drainage, sidewalks, and new signals, with construction targeted to start next year and much of the work scheduled at night or on non-LSU-game weekends.
4. Judge rules that Baton Rouge school board candidate can stay after he said his wife forgot to mail taxes (nola.com) — A judge has ruled that an East Baton Rouge Parish School Board member can remain on the ballot after finding his late-filed state tax paperwork was a good-faith mailing mistake. Incumbent Patrick Martin, currently unopposed in District 9, faced a legal challenge from a local voter over his tax certification. The decision keeps voters' option to retain their current representative this fall.
5. Beyond Baton Rouge: LSU Students Spend Summer Studying Abroad (lsureveille.com) — LSU students spent their summer far beyond Baton Rouge, studying everything from Victorian literature in Oxford to sports communication in the U.K. and Spanish in Argentina. Their stories highlight how Tigers are earning credit, building global connections, and then bringing those experiences back home to campus and the Baton Rouge community.
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