Students, teachers and administrators all learned that lesson under the stay-athome order issued by Gov. John Bel Edwards to mitigate that COVID-19 pandemic. The order closed school buildings and shifted learning online to close out the 2019-20 school year.

He recalled meeting a graduate of the re-entry program on the streets of New Orleans. The man told Boone that his re-entry class had built a metal building from the ground up during the program. When the man was released, he moved to New Orleans, where a friend needed a metal building.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way many of us work, entertain ourselves and interact with the world around us. We have spent months stay at home. If all that time stuck inside the same four walls has you considering a new house, or maybe just some updates around your existing home, now might be a great time to take.

As a result, Mooretown students will attend Oak Park Elementary starting this fall. Jack P. Timmons students will attend schools closer to their homes, including Blanchard Elementary, Donnie Bickham Middle, Walnut Hill Elementary/Middle and Turner Elementary/Middle.

Mayor Adrian Perkins and Shreveport Police Chief Ben Raymond are fighting a battle on two fronts: Cutting a proposed $4.5 million from the police department’s 2020 budget on one side, and combatting public opinion that the cuts will put public safety at risk on the other.

Fritze believes in family. It’s the foundation of his business at Red River Chevrolet, and he is the fourth generation of his family to operate the dealership. The fifth-generation, represented by his son and son-in-law, is already in place..

Half brothers Samuel G. and William B. Wiener made Shreveport an early hub for International Modernist design with their residential, institutional and commercial buildings in the 1930s through the 1960s. Their story caught the attention of Shreveport architect Mischa Farrell and Stacy Pfingsten with the Louisiana Architecture Foundation.

Segue, a group of five companies that are part of the Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program (EAP), is licensing technologies from area universities. Those assets are advancing medical research and commercializing North Louisiana’s academic and research assets.