The Port of Caddo-Bossier broke ground in mid-May for a new tenant, Sunny Point Aggregates. The new venture is building a sand proppant processing facility at the Port and will occupy a 43-acre tract in the area of the Red River front known as Scopini Island.

June 4, for the 36th consecutive year, the Original Shreveport Farmers’ Market has been open for business on Saturday mornings at Festival Plaza in downtown Shreveport. Each Saturday during the summer until Aug. 27, farmers from this area will have their wares on display for sale from 7:30 a.

The CenterPoint Energy Red River Balloon Rally, presented by the Louisiana Office of Tourism, is the appropriately long title of the almost week-long invasion of over 30 competitors hoping to float away with the championship of this year's U.S. Team Nationals.

The reputation of Shreveport-Bossier as a center for medicine and medical research was given a boost with the June 8 opening of the Center for Molecular Imaging and Therapy by Building our Regions Future (BRF).

Conflict seems to be a common theme recently, and the Prize Foundation is capitalizing on it with a battle of its own. It’s called Taco Wars, and it’s headed for downtown Shreveport on April 30 from noon to 8 p.m. in front of the historic Municipal Auditorium.

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Barbara and Alan Sugar bought the home in the mid-1980s while it was still under construction, according to their daughter and current owner, Ashley Sugar Bates. Her parents hired a local decorator, Cindy Miciotto, to add her design talents to the project.

It’s a twist on the unity ceremony known as the Blending of the Sand that has become a fixture of some traditional weddings where containers of different colored sand are combined to create a new mixture.