The Times-Picayune 09-20-2025

Corpsplans sill to halt salt waterinriver

Officialsmonitor flow rate amid drought

BY ALEX LUBBEN Staff writer

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Friday that it will build an underwater sill to keep saltwater from moving up theMississippi River, the fourth-straight year in whichthe structure has been needed to protect upriver water systems

The barrier will be constructed near Myrtle Grove in Plaquemines Parish. Due to adeepening drought, the Mis-

sissippi’sflow ratehas fallen and that is allowing salt water from the Gulf of Mexico to travel north.

The Corpshas built the sill every yearsince 2022. Prior to that year,the agency had only built asill in the river three times: in 1988, 1999 and 2022.

Under normal conditions, thesteady flow of fresh water down theriver keeps saltwaterinthe Gulf.But in times of extreme low water,the rate at which the water flows downriver slows, and salt water,whichisdenser than fresh water,will creep upriver in awedgeshape along the river bottom

Thesill is designed to halt it

The construction prompts flash-

backs for residents in New Orleans and surrounding parishes,who in 2023

flocked to grocerystores to stock up on bottled water as thesaltwater wedge approached drinking water intakes.

Salt water poses arisk to municipal water systems, which are not designed to handle it. But for now,officials say New Orleans’ water systemisnot at risk.

“Weare monitoring the situation alongwith the Corps of Engineers,” saidCeara Labat, aspokesperson for theSewerage &Water Board.

Farther south in Plaquemines Parish,

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ARCH ENEMIES

BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer

Voters may find the list of candidates is much shorter than in years past when casting aballot in the 2026midterm elections next November That’sbecause, under new rules

Archbishop Shaw andArchbishopRummelsquared off Friday in Marrerointheir annual battle forThe Megaphone, asymbolictrophyawarded to thewinner.

Rummel topped Shaw 29-0 to claimThe Megaphone.

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for Louisiana’sclosed party primary races that begin in April, candidates for U.S. House and Senate whoaren’t Democrats or Republicans have more worktodotoget on theNovember ballot. Democratic and Republican candidates can signuptorun foroffice in Januarybyfillingout acandida-

cy form and paying thequalifying fee for therace. It’s$3,500 for the Senateand $1,500 for the House. All other candidates for those races —for example, unaffili-

La.teachers investigated forposts aboutKirk

Social media comments aboutkilling of activist draw scrutiny

BY PATRICK WALL and ELYSE CARMOSINO Staff writers

Several Louisianateachers have come under fire for socialmedia posts relatedto the assassination of conservative activist CharlieKirk,withsome facing district investigations and intense online criticism.

FoureducatorsinAscensionParish were placed on leave this week while district officials investigated theironline posts, ateachers union representative confirmed In Caddo Parish, aSchool Boardmemberput outa call for evidence of district employees celebrating Kirk’skilling, while someonline commentersdemanded that alocal teacher be fired forher remarks on social media after Kirk, 31, wasfatally shot on acollege campus in Utah this month.

Last week, aSouthern University law professorwas suspendedfor allegedly posting disparaging remarks about Kirk on social media.

Louisiana Superintendent of Education Cade Brumleysaidhewelcomes investigations into any school system employees who made “inhumane comments” about Kirk’sdeath.

“Anyone who celebrates the assassination of Charlie Kirk hasnoplace educating Louisiana students,” he said in astatement. Across thecountry,teachers andprofessors —along with firefighters, government employees, journalists and others —have been suspended or lost their jobs in recentdaysfor criticizing Kirk online or appearing to make light of his death.

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ated “no party” candidates, Green Party membersand Libertarians —are required to qualifythrough thestate’s little-used nominating petition process. To qualifybynominating petition, acandidate goes out and collects handwritten signatures and identifying information from a

required number of voters. Senate candidates need at least 2,500 signatures, with 250 of those coming from each congressional district. House candidates need 750 signatures from within the district.

BRIEFS

Trump asks to strip Venezuelans’ TPS status

WASHINGTON The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order allowing it to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants

The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that the administration wrongly ended Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans.

The federal appeals court in San Francisco refused to put on hold the ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen while the case continues.

In May, the Supreme Court reversed an order from Chen that affected another 350,000 Venezuelans. The high court provided no explanation at the time, which is common in emergency appeals.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued in the new court filing that the justices’ May order should also apply to the current case.

Flights snarled at Dallas airports over equipment

DALLAS Hundreds of flights in and out of Dallas were delayed or canceled Friday as telecommunications equipment issues disrupted one of the nation’s busiest airports, federal officials said The Federal Aviation Administration said it was slowing flights at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport because of a “reported local telephone company equipment issue.” The same problems were also impacting Dallas Love Field, according to the agency, which said the issue did not involve FAA equipment.

According to FlightAware, as of late Friday afternoon, nearly 700 flights in and out of DFW Airport were delayed while about 200 canceled. About 160 flights were delayed in and out of Love Field while one flight was canceled.

As of late Friday afternoon, departures from Love Field were delayed by an average of about 30 minutes, according to the FAA website. At DFW Airport, a ground stop was in place for American Airlines and flights on other airlines were being delayed by over an hour Administration proposes $6B in weapons to Israel

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has told Congress it plans to sell nearly $6 billion in weapons to Israel, a fresh surge of support for the U.S. ally as it faces increasing isolation over its war in Gaza.

It includes a $3.8 billion sale for 30 AH-64 Apache helicopters, nearly doubling Israel’s current stocks, and a $1.9 billion sale for 3,200 infantry assault vehicles for Israeli army according to a U.S. official and another person familiar with the proposal who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss plans that have not been made public.

The weapons would not be delivered for two to three years or longer

The huge sales come as U.S. plans to broker an end to the nearly two-year war between Israel and Hamas have stalled and after Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar, drew widespread condemnation among U.S. allies in the Middle East.

The U.S. has kept up its support despite growing international pressure on Israel and attempts from a growing number of U.S. Senate Democrats to block the sale of offensive weapons to Israel.

Estonia: 3 Russian jets in its airspace

BY GEIR MOULSON and ANDREW WILKS Associated Press

Estonia summoned a Russian diplomat to protest after three Russian fighter aircraft entered its airspace without permission Friday and stayed there for 12 minutes, the Foreign Ministry said. It happened just over a week after NATO planes downed Russian drones over Poland and heightened fears that the war in Ukraine could spill over Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said Russia violated Estonian airspace four times this year “but today’s incursion, involving three fighter aircraft entering our airspace, is unprecedentedly brazen.”

Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur also said the government had decided “to start consultations among the allies” under NATO’s article 4, he wrote on X, after Russian jets “violated our airspace yet again.”

The North Atlantic Council, NA-

TO’s principal political decisionmaking body, is due to convene early next week to discuss the incident in more detail, NATO spokesperson Allison Hart said Friday Article 4, the shortest of the NATO treaty’s 14 articles, states that: “The Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.” Russian officials did not immediately comment.

Russia’s violation of Poland’s airspace was the most serious cross-border incident into a NATO member country since the war in Ukraine began with Russia’s all-out invasion in February 2022. Other alliance countries have reported similar incursions and drone crashes on their territory

The developments have increasingly rattled European governments as U.S.-led efforts to stop the war in Ukraine have come to nothing.

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas called Friday’s incursion “an extremely dangerous provocation” that “further escalates tensions in the region.”

“On our side, we see that we must show no weakness because weakness is something that invites Russia to do more,” she said. “They are increasingly more dangerous — not only to Ukraine, but also to all the countries around Russia.”

Estonia, along with fellow Baltic states Lithuania and Latvia and neighboring Poland, are staunch supporters of Ukraine.

The Russian MIG-31 fighters entered Estonian airspace in the area of Vaindloo Island, a small island located in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea, the Estonian military said in a separate statement.

The aircraft did not have flight plans and their transponders were turned off, the statement said, nor were the aircraft in two-way radio communication with Estonian air traffic services.

NATO fighter jets scramble hun-

Mexico City remembers deadly 1985 earthquake

BY MARÍA VERZA Associated Press

MEXICO CITY Every Sept. 19, residents of Mexico City ask themselves an unsettling question: “Is the ground shaking?”

On that day 40 years ago, at 7:19 a.m., a 8.1-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks left the Mexican capital devastated Official counts put the death toll around 12,000, but the real number remains unknown. The earthquake was a watershed moment for the city A new culture of civil defense evolved, better warning systems developed, building codes changed and, since 2004, there have been annual earthquake drills held on that day

Then, on that very same day in 2017, things changed again. Barely two hours after the annual drill, a 7.1-magnitude temblor began shaking the ground; its epicenter was so close to the capital that the warning alarms didn’t even sound. Nearly 400 died this time and word spread in an instant on social media, but the destruction showed some lessons still hadn’t been learned, as many deaths could have been prevented Whether the ground shakes or not, Sept. 19 continues to rattle residents of the capital, because for many there are symbols across the city that have not been forgotten.

Screams of the seamstresses

First came the screams from the seamstresses buried under one of the capital’s collapsed textile plants, recalled Gloria Juandiego, now 65. Soon after, the screams were from people like her outside the rubble, who shouted that others were trapped inside The soldiers did

BY KATHY MCCORMACK and JOSH FUNK

Associated Press

Grammy award-winning country songwriter Brett James whose string of top hits includes “Jesus, Take the Wheel” by Carrie Underwood and “When the Sun Goes Down” by Kenny Chesney, died in a plane crash in North Carolina, authorities said Friday

dreds of times most years to intercept aircraft, many of them Russian warplanes in northwest Europe flying too close to the airspace of its member countries, but it’s rarer for planes to cross the boundary

Dozens of NATO jets are on round-the-clock alert across Europe to respond to incidents such as unannounced military flights or civilian planes losing communication with air traffic controllers.

The Russian charge d’affaires was summoned and given a protest note, a ministry statement said.

Earlier Friday, the head of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency said there is “absolutely no evidence” that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin wants to negotiate peace in Ukraine.

Richard Moore, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6 as it is more commonly known, said Putin was “stringing us along.” “He seeks to impose his imperial will by all means at his disposal. But he cannot succeed,” Moore said.

Senate confirms Waltz as Trump’s U.N. ambassador

BY FARNOUSH AMIRI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press

nothing, she said.

“The bosses got the equipment out, the raw materials, their safe boxes, they prioritized that,” she said. They didn’t let them tear up the salvaged clothing to make tourniquets. Then came the smell and the image of how “the bodies were tossed into trucks, even as more and more women came out to demand authorities rescue their colleagues. In the end, hundreds of seamstresses, normally holed up working 12-hour days without breaks, died.

“Our submission was buried under the rubble,” a popular sign at the time read. It was the start of the Sept. 19 seamstress union to fight for decent working conditions.

‘The Moles’

“We were digging with sardine cans and our hands,” recalled Francisco Camacho, now 66. In 1985, he was one of the young people looking for survivors of a collapsed apartment building on Tlatelolco Plaza, where today a sun dial marks the time of the earthquake.

A woman organized a chain of volunteers removing buckets full of debris. Children brought water Camacho recalled the tenor Plácido Domingo, who was also helping, saying the volunteers were making holes and crawling into them “as if they were moles.”

And so a volunteer rescue group known as “Los Topos” (The moles) was born. The organization has grown from 20-some amateurs to a diverse force of some 1,200 people today Now, a powerful symbol of Mexican solidarity, they have traveled to 32 countries to assist at times of catastrophe. They continue training every Sunday for what could happen next

songwriter James dies in plane crash

The small plane with three people aboard crashed Thursday afternoon “under unknown circumstances” in the woods in Franklin, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a preliminary report. There were no survivors, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said in a statement. It was not known if James was the pilot The patrol confirmed his death. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board said they will investigate the crash The other two people on the plane were Melody Carole and Meryl Maxwell Wilson, the patrol confirmed. A native of Oklahoma City James, 57, left medical school to pursue a music career in Nashville, according his biography on the Hall of Fame’s site. His first No. 1 hit was “Who I Am” in 2001, by Jessica Andrews. “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” which he co-wrote for

Underwood, earned the 2006 Grammy for Best Country Song, among other honors. James had more than 500 of his songs recorded, for albums with combined sales of more than 110 million copies, according to his Grand Ole Opry biography online. Additional hits include “Cowboy Casanova” by Underwood, “Out Last Night” by Chesney and “Summer Nights” by Rascal Flatts. Grammy-winning

WASHINGTON The Senate on Friday confirmed Mike Waltz to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, filling the last vacancy in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet after eight months of delays and the withdrawal of a previous nominee. The bipartisan vote for Waltz came after a recent procedural hurdle sent his nomination back to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where it had to be voted on again on Wednesday

The Senate did not vote on a separate matter that would formally designate Waltz as a representative at the General Assembly, due to objections from

Democrats, according to a person familiar with the Senate deliberations. It is unclear how or whether Waltz would be able to participate in the annual U.N. gathering in New York next week The White House did not immediately respond to a request for clarification. It is unclear why Waltz wasn’t advanced before Democrats employed the procedural move last week, given that his nomination moved out of committee last month with bipartisan support.

A State Department spokesperson said they had worked closely with the White House “to advance every one of our nominees as quickly as possible,” including Waltz. But a Democratic congressional aide said this week that the administration officials had shown “no urgency” in getting Waltz confirmed before the U.N. General Assembly, which kicks off Tuesday

Speaker of the HouseMikeJohnson, R-Benton, right, joined by

Scalise, R-Jefferson, center left, leads amemorialMondaynight

to honorconservativeactivist

Houseapprovesresolution honoring ‘legacy’ of Kirk

Dozensof Democrats

oppose,abstain

BY JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press

WASHINGTON The House overwhelmingly passeda resolution honoring conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Friday,but asignificant number of Democrats voted against it, highlighting the deepening political divide in the wake of hisassassination

Theresolution, which praised “the life and legacy” of Kirk, passed the Republican-controlled House with 310votes in favor.While 95 Democrats supported the resolution, 58 voted against it and 38 voted “present,” effectively abstaining. Republicans had warned aheadof the vote that no one should oppose the measure, but many Democrats said they felt Kirk’sdeath had been politicized and that the resolution elevated viewsthey disagreedwith.

“Today’sresolution underscoresthe majority’s recklessness by choosing to author this condemnation andhonoringona purely partisan basis,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

of New York,a high-profile Democrat whovoted against theresolution. “Weshould be clear about who Charlie Kirk was.”

Speaker Mike Johnson said thatthere was “no partisan language”inthe resolution andthatthere was “noexcuse” for anyone not to voteinfavor of it

“Weare honoring someone whocontributedgreatly to the free marketplace of ideas and public discourse and who died in adisgraceful,horrific manner,” Johnson told reporters.

Thevote capped aweek of heightened tensions in Congressand across anation grappling with Kirk’s assassination andthe legacy he left behind. Many on the right have blamed theleft for fostering apolitical climate thatled to his death, pushingfor more than condemnation and allowing little room for criticism of his views. In thedays since, backlash to such criticism hasled to firings —ranging from teachers to journalists —asconservative activists have launchedaggressive pressurecampaigns

“Nosingle member of the HouseDemocratic caucus, not asingle member, condones political violence in America,” House Demo-

cratic LeaderHakeem Jeffries said Friday

Earlier this week, the Housenarrowlydeclined to punishone of its own over commentary in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The Republican effort to censure Rep. IlhanOmar came aftershe criticized Kirk’sviews of gun ownership and race relationsinthe aftermath of GeorgeFloyd’s2020 death in Minneapolis. After thevote fell short, President Donald Trumpresponded by calling Omar “terrible. While Friday’sresolution aimedtohonor Kirk and denouncepolitical violence, many Democrats took issue with itslanguage. Thetext described Kirk, thefounder of Turning Point USA, as someone who was “seeking to elevate truth,foster understanding, and strengthen the Republic,” and thathe stood “as amodel for young Americans.”

Many Republicans in Congress are set totravel to Arizona on Sunday for Kirk’s funeral. Johnson, whoplans to attendthe funeral, gave along tribute on the House floor on Thursday,saying the the best way to honor Kirk was to “advance the principles that he advanced, and to adopt his approach.”

Senate rejectscompeting billstofundgovernment

It’s unclearhow shutdown Oct. 1willbeavoided

BY KEVIN FREKING Associated Press

WASHINGTON TheSenaterejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for afew weeks when the new budgetyear begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for apartial government shutdown on that date.

Leaders of the two parties sought to blame the other side forthe standoff. Democrats accused Republicans of not negotiating with them to address some of their priorities on health careaspart of the funding measure, even though theyknew Democraticvotes would be needed to get abill to the president’sdesk.

Republicans saidDemocrats were makingdemands that woulddramaticallyincrease spending and were not germane to thecore issue of keeping agencies fully running for ashort period of time while negotiations continuedona full-year spending package.

It’sunclear howthe two sideswill be able to avoid ashutdown. Republicans are planning on what amountstoa do-over vote on theirproposal close to thedeadlineinthe hopes that more Democrats will have second thoughts. Democrats are repeating their demand that Republicans sit down with them and work on acompromise.

“The theater must end,” Senate DemocraticLeader ChuckSchumer,D-N.Y.,said after the vote. “Let’ssit down and negotiate.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., gavenoindication of achange in course. “All it takes is ahandful of Democratstojoin the Republicans in keeping thegovernment open andfunded,and to ensure we have achance to get the appropriationsprocess completed in theway it was intended,” Thune said.

The Senate action came after the House earlier in the day passed theRepublicanled funding bill. The measure would extend government funding generally at current levels for sevenweeks. The bill would also addabout $88 millioninsecurity funding for lawmakers and members of the Supreme Court and executive branch in the wakeofthe assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The vote was 217-212. Rep.Jared Golden,ofMaine,was theloneDemocratic member to support the bill. Rep. Marie GluesenkampPerez, D-Wash., also said

she tried to vote for the bill but was not recognized by the presiding officer.She waslisted officially as not voting.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Benton, said he knew he had fewvotes to spare as he sought to persuade fellow Republicans to vote forthe funding patch, something manyinhis conference have routinely opposedinpastbudgetfights. But this time, GOP members saw achance to portray the Democrats as responsible forashutdown.

“The ball is in Chuck Schumer’scourt. I hope he does theright thing. Ihopehedoes notchoosetoshutthe governmentdown andinflict pain on the American people,” Johnson said.

President Donald Trump had urged House Republicans to pass the bill and put the burden on Democrats to oppose it. GOP leaders often need Trump’shelp to win over holdoutsonlegislation.“Every House Republican shouldUNIFY, and VOTEYES!” Trump said on his social media site

Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y.,saidthat in opposing the continuing resolution, Democrats wereworking to protect thehealthcareofthe American people. He said that with Republicans controlling the White House and both branches of Congress, “Republicans will owna government shutdown. Period. Full stop.”

The Senate moved quickly after the House vote to take up the measure plus the Democratic counter.Both bills fell far short of the 60 votes required forpassage. The Democratic proposal would extend enhanced health insurance subsidies set to expire at the end of the year,plus reverse Medicaid cuts that were included in Republicans’ big tax breaks and spending cuts bill enacted earlier this year

The Democraticmeasure actually receivedmore votes than theRepublican one due to absences. The 47-45 vote went strictly along party lines.

The Republican measure gained44 votes, including fromDemocratic Sen. JohnFetterman, of Pennsylvania. But 48 voted against it, including two Republicans, Sens.RandPaul, of Kentucky; and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska.

Both chambers of Congress are out of session next week because of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.Senators will return on Sept. 29. House Republicans don’t plan to be back until October.They were advised by leadership Friday that no votes would take place on Sept.29-30, as previously scheduled. The movebyHouse GOP leadership essentially forces the Senate to approve the House-passedmeasure or riskashutdown.

BY AAMER MADHANI Associated Press

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said

Fridaythe U.S. military hascarried outits third fatal strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month.

Trump in asocial media posting said the strikekilled three andwas carried out against avessel “affiliated with aDesignated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM areaofresponsibility.” He did not provide more precise detailsabout thelocation of thestrike, and theWhite House and Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along aknown narcotrafficking passage

enroute to poison Americans,” Trump said in the post.

Trump on Mondayannouncedthe U.S. military had carried out astrike on aboat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela That strike also killed three on board. That followed aSept. 2military strike on what the Trumpadministration saidwas adrug-carryingspeedboat that killed11.

Trump claimed theboat was operated by theTren de Aragua gang, which waslisted by theU.S. as foreign terrorist organization earlier this year Severalsenators as well as humanrights groups have questionedthe legality of Trump’saction. They view it as apotential overreach of executive authority in part becausethe military was usedfor law enforcement purposes

thewater supply also remainssafe to drink, officials said. While salt water could pose a risk to water treatment plants in Pointe alaHache on the Mississippi River’seast bank, and in Belle Chasse on the west bank, thereisnoimmediaterisktoeither one,according to PatrickHarvey, Plaquemines Parish’sdirector of homeland security and emergency

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On Wednesday,Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show was taken off the air after he commented on Kirk’s killing.

Conservative activists and Republican politicians have demanded that people who mock Kirk’s death face professional consequences, with Vice President JD Vance saying professorswho celebrate theassassination should lose their jobs or their universitieslose federal funding. Some school leaders have urged educatorstobeespecially cautious in this volatile political climate, with the Ascension Parish superintendent reminding employees in arecent emailthat “professionalism extends beyond the school building.”

But critics argue that the crackdown amounts to an assault onfree speech, and that public schoolteachers have aright to voicetheir personal opinions unless doing so interferes with theirwork.

“The government shouldn’tbe able to punish you for addressinga topic (that’s) uncomfortable,” said Ken Paulson,director ofthe Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University.“Youcan’tlimit speechjustbecause it makesyou uncomfortable.”

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Instead of paying afee to qualify,candidates submit the collection of signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office. Butbeforetheydo, those signatures needtobecertified by the local registrarof voters in the parish where the signatories live. That could mean trips to the Registrar of Voters’ Officein multiple parishes The window for non-Democratic and Republican candidates to collect signatures opened Sept.16and closes Dec. 17.

Also, under the new system, only theDemocratic Party and Republican Party are allowed to hold closed primary contests in spring, allowing thetwo parties to narrow down thefieldto a single preferred candidate. That willlikely resultin one Republican and one Democrat on the general election ballot in November, at which point the two majorparty candidates will compete against each other and against any other candidates that qualified earlier in the year by nominating petition. The November general election can be won with a plurality rather than amajority of the vote.

preparedness. The parish plans to take precautions,however,toensurethat the PointealaHacheplantstaysupan running by bringing in areverseosmosis filtration system, which can removesalt from water

“We’ve made significant improvementssince2023,” saidHarvey “This year, we’re preparedfor it.”

At this pointin2023 —a year in whichLouisiana suffered arecordbreakingdrought— theCorps had already completed the construction of the sill.Salt water overtopped it on Sept.20, 2023.

In at least two Louisiana parishes, teachers’ social media posts about Kirk were flagged by membersof the public

An AscensionParish teacher was citedinapostonTigerDroppings,an online discussion board dedicated to LSU sports, politicsand other topics. TheSept. 11 post featured ascreenshotofaFacebookcommentallegedly made by theteacher saying, “Gun violence happens to everyone” with ashrugging woman emoji abovea photo ofKirk. The userwho posted thescreenshot wrote, “She (teaches) some of your kids.”

The following day,Ascension Parish Public Schools Superintendent Edith Walker sentdistrict staffers an emailurging them to use “good judgment”and display “professionalism in everysetting.” She did not reference thecontroversy around Kirk’skilling butsaidthat staff members are seen as representatives of the school system whether theyare “in public or engaging on socialmedia.” Eventually fourstafferswere placed onleave pending district investigations into their online comments, the union representative said In astatement, Walkersaidshe cannot comment on personnelmatters, but added that districtofficials carefully review any concerns brought to their attention.

“The trustplaced in us to educate

Louisiana statelawmakers, with thebackingofGov Jeff Landry,created thenew closed partyprimarysystem shortly after taking office in Januarylast year. Republican and Democratic candidates will have togo throughan“extensive process” of fundraising, campaigning and voter outreach to winthe partynomination in spring elections, said state Rep. Julie Emerson, R-Carencro, whosponsored the legislation setting up the new system “By engaginginthe nominatingpetition process, minor partyorno-partycandidateswill nothaveasextensive of aprocess but willstill have to engage insome type of voter contact likethe major partycandidates,” Emerson said.

Louisiana secretary of staterecords show the last time acandidate for major officequalified via nominatingpetition was in 2014, when Bryan Barrilleaux ran for the 3rd Congressional District. (Charles Boustany won inalandslide with 79% of thevote.)

Under theold rules,which didnot requirethird-party candidates to use nominating petitions,adozen or more candidates could end up competing in asingle race, with few winning asignificant share of votes.

In 2022, when Sen. John

“We’re starting alittle bit later thanwehave in the previous couple of years,” said Matt Roe, aspokespersonfor the Corps. He noted that it’stoo early to make comparisons to the 2023 saltwater wedge, butsaid that the current droughtisexpected to last for another month, allowing salt water to continue to move farther upriver In 2023, local officialsdetaileda plan to build apipeline to source fresh water from farther upriver had the saltwater wedge threatened New Orleans’ water supply. That plan proved unnecessary;

andcare for students is aresponsibilitywetakeveryseriously,” she said, “and we will continue to uphold the standards that keep that trust strong.”

In Caddo Parish, someonelast week shared images in alocal Facebook groupofposts she said were made by ahigh school teacher.One of the posts said, “I don’twish anyonedead,but Idobelieve in Karma.” Theperson whosharedthe posts called them “disgusting” and said: “Caddo parish school board get RID of this problem!”

Separately,School Board memberDon Little askedonFacebook for members of the public to send images of any district employees “celebrating assassination.”

During aCaddo Parish School Boardmeeting this week, Shreveport resident Flora Levels said that school employees whofollowethical guidelines and do not condone violence should be allowed toexpress their views.

“Their right to speak outshould not be taken from them,” shetold the board.

In an interview,Littlesaid that while he stronglysupports the First Amendment, there are reasonable limits to freespeech such as incitingviolence.Headded that school employees aresubject tothe district’spolicies on professional conduct,political neutralityand social media use.

Kennedy,R-Madisonville, won 62% of the vote, he competed against 12 other candidates on the November ballot

In 2020, when Sen. Bill Cassidy,R-Baton Rouge, won his seat with 59% of the vote, there were14other candidates listed on the ballot.

Beryl Billiot, whoran as ano-partycandidatefor U.S.Senate in 2022, 2020 and 2016, acknowledged the newnominating petition requirement will ensure the field is limited to serious candidates.

“That cleans up the field a littlebit,”hesaid. “Ithelps keep the people that really aren’tinterested in the race out of the race.”

At the same time, Billiot said there are better ways to achievethatoutcome without preventing workingclass people from running for office.

“It limitsthe abilityofthe averageAmerican to be part of the political system,” he said of the new rules.

Howard Kearney,aLibertarian from Mandeville who has run multiple times in the 1st Congressional District, said thenominating petition requirementispartofwhy he isn’trunning in 2026.

“I do finditunfortunate, but not surprising, that both parties are so concerned aboutholding powerthat

rain returned to the Mississippi River Basin andflushedthe salt water downstream. Drought in the Ohio River Basin since early August has reduced the amount of water flowing into the Mississippi River. Normally,the Ohio supplies about half of the water in thelower Mississippi,but right now it contributes onlyabout 8% Waterisjust 3feet deep at the Carrollton gauge in New Orleans, and it has dropped by about 4inches in the last 24 hours. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pre-

He said he received reports aboutadozen or so social media posts, severalbythe same staffer, but only threewere “questionable” enough to forward to district officials for review.None of the posts explicitly celebrated Kirk’sdeath, he added.

“The vast majority of our employees had extraordinary conduct during thisevent,” he said.

Caddo Parish Public Schools spokespersonMaryNash-Wood said that no employees were put on leave due to their social media comments.

“However,wecontinue to cautionour employees to be vigilant in what theypost,” she added.

Larry Carter,president of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, the state’slargest teachers union, said in an emailThursdaythatthe union was aware of “fewer than five” educators across the state who hadbeenplacedonleave during investigationsoftheir social media posts related to Kirk. He notedthat is atiny fraction of Louisiana’smorethan52,000 public schoolteachers.

“Educators across Louisiana are focusing on their noble calling: fostering learning, promoting understanding, and engaging citizens in amultifaceted democracy,” he said.

The online posts by educators and othershave ranged from criticisms of Kirk’s past statements,which

they force aduopoly,” he said. “It is obvious they do not trust their message and policies to keep them in office.”

The secretary of state this month launched astatewide campaign to educate voters about the transition to closed

party primaries in April.

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Vaccine panel changes COVID shot guidance

RFK Jr.’s advisers say it should be a choice

BY MIKE STOBBE and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press

ATLANTA Health Secretary Rob-

ert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers added confusion Friday to this fall’s COVID-19 vaccinations — declining to recommend them for anyone and leaving the choice up to those who want a shot.

Until now, the vaccinations had been recommended as a routine step in the fall for nearly all Americans just like a yearly flu vaccine.

The Food and Drug Administration already had placed new restrictions on this year’s shots from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax, reserving them for people over 65 or younger ones who are deemed at higher risk from the virus.

In a series of votes Friday, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took the unprecedented step of not recommending them even for high-risk populations like seniors. Instead they decided people could make individual decisions after talking

with a doctor nurse or pharmacist.

The panel also urged the CDC to adopt stronger language around claims of vaccine risks, despite pushback from outside medical groups who said the shots had a proven safety record from the billions of doses administered worldwide.

The divided panel narrowly avoided urging states to require a prescription for the shot. The move came after protests from some of the advisers that the extra step would block access to vaccination.

“I have to wait a year” to see his primary care provider, said panelist Dr Cody Meissner of Dartmouth College. “It’s essentially going to be a barrier.”

The meeting represented the latest example of Kennedy’s monthslong effort to reshape the nation’s vaccine policies to match his long-standing suspicions about the safety and effectiveness of well-established shots.

Independent public health experts reacted with relief that the panel didn’t add more roadblocks to vaccination, but they said the lack of a recommendation will prove confusing for people who don’t know if a shot might benefit

Senate confirms N.O. lawyer for CIA job

BY MARK BALLARD Staff writer

WASHINGTON — New Orleans

lawyer Peter Thomson was confirmed Thursday to be the Central Intelligence Agency’s inspector general as the U.S. Senate Republican majority used the “nuclear option” to break a partisan logjam in confirming President Donald Trump’s nominees.

Thomson, who is a member of the Stone Pigman law firm, was among the first the Senate confirmed on a voice vote. He also is one of a handful of Trump’s nominees from Louisiana who have cleared committee hearings, then languished on the calendar awaiting a final confirmation vote by the full Senate. The vote was 51-47.

The three Louisiana nominees on the Senate Executive Calendar who are still awaiting an en bloc confirmation vote under the “nuclear option” rules are:

n James S. Baehr of New Orleans, to be general counsel at the Department of Veterans Affairs

n David A. LaCerte, of Baton Rouge, to be a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the remainder of a term expiring June 30, 2026

n Kurt L. Wall, of Livingston, to be U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana based in Baton Rouge.

Thomson was among the first tranche of 48 nominees confirmed simultaneously under a procedure known as the “nuclear option” that the Senate’s Republican majority imposed to move along Trump’s nominations.

The Democratic minority insisted on strictly following Senate rules, which slowed the process, as a way to protest what they called ex-

treme ideological positions taken by some of Trump’s nominees and for Republican refusal to allow Democratic input on other issues.

Changing the process for the first time, allows the Senate to confirm groups of nominees with a simple majority rather than by 60 votes.

Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he would use the new process on different groups of nominees as soon as practical to finish the confirmation process and get the candidates on the job.

A New Orleans native, Thomson attended Tulane University for his undergraduate and law degrees. He was an assistant U.S. attorney for 23 years and served on special assignment at the National Security Agency As inspector general, Thomson will oversee audits to detect fraud, waste, abuse and other forms of misconduct within the CIA.

Thomson told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee that he would not be bullied He was criticized by some senators for ducking the issue by saying he didn’t have enough information to opine on whether the CIA whistleblower who prompted the first impeachment proceedings against Trump should have gone to Congress with the information about the president’s dealings with Ukraine.

The post has been vacant since the end of the Obama administration. Thomson was nominated for the post in 2020 and cleared committee hearings, but never received a floor vote after Trump lost the presidential election.

Email Mark Ballard at mballard@theadvocate com.

them. “The good news is anyone can get this vaccine. The bad news is that no one is encouraged to get it even if you’re in a high-risk group,” said Dr Paul Offit, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, a vaccine researcher and former government adviser who has sparred with Kennedy for years. Dr Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics said the panel’s daylong debate involved clear efforts to sow distrust about vaccines that would have “real-time impacts on American children.”

But he said people could instead follow guidelines from his and other medical groups that still make specific recommendations for the vaccines.

“It was a very, very strange meeting,” O’Leary said.

Several states have announced policies to try to assure that access, worried about Friday’s decision. And a group representing most health insurers, America’s Health Insurance Plans, said earlier this week that its members will continue covering the shots through 2026.

The panel’s decision still must go to the CDC’s interim director, Jim

O’Neill, for sign-off. A former investor, critic of health regulations and Kennedy’s deputy at HHS, O’Neill recently took the lead at the agency following the firing of its Senate-confirmed director Susan Monarez.

COVID-19 remains a public health threat. CDC data released in June shows the virus resulted in 32,000 to 51,000 U.S. deaths and more than 250,000 hospitalizations last fall and winter Most at risk for hospitalization are seniors and young children, especially those who were unvaccinated.

The COVID-19 vaccines are not perfect, but CDC data shows they provide the strongest protection against severe infection and death, even if people still become infected. Likewise, people can get COVID-19 repeatedly as the virus continues to evolve.

Like flu vaccines, COVID-19 shots now are being updated yearly but only about 44% of seniors and 13% of children were up-todate on the coronavirus vaccinations last year, the CDC said.

The meeting was more freewheeling and chaotic than in the past. Many committee members challenged CDC’s data, and raised questions about studies in mice or

other concerns that the agency’s own safety surveillance hadn’t deemed credible.

The panel did recommend that the CDC add more information about risks and uncertainties to vaccine sheets that are given to patients.

One risk that already is on the vaccines’ label is a rare side effect called myocarditis, a kind of heart inflammation, that was discovered in the early days of vaccination in 2021. On Friday a scientist studying whether people with certain genes are uniquely susceptible to that risk told the panel the Trump administration had canceled his grant before the research could be finished.

The advisers postponed a decision on whether to end a longstanding CDC recommendation that all newborns be vaccinated at birth against a liver virus, hepatitis B.

The panel had been considering whether to recommend delaying that initial vaccination — something doctors and parents already can choose to do — but pulled back amid criticism from independent pediatric and infectious disease specialists who say the vaccine is safe and has helped infant infections drop sharply

ICE makes 550 arrests in Chicago area

BY REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press

PARK RIDGE,Ill.— Immigration enforcement officials have arrested almost 550 people as part of an operation in the Chicago area that launched a little less than two weeks ago, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday

The updated figure came hours after a senior immigration official revealed in an interview with The Associated Press that more than 400 people had been arrested in the operation so far

The figures released by Homeland Security include arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as other federal agencies assisting in the operation.

ICE launched its Chicago area operation dubbed “Midway Blitz” on Sept. 8, drawing concern from activists and immigrant communities who say there’s been a noticeable uptick in immigration enforcement agents. That has deepened dread in communities already fearful of the large-scale arrests or aggressive tactics used in other cities targeted by President Donald Trump ‘s hardline immigration policies.

The operation has brought allegations of excessive force and heavyhanded dragnets that have ensnared U.S. citizens, while gratifying Trump supporters who say he is delivering on a promise of mass deportations.

The Trump administration has promised to send an influx of immigration agents and National Guard troops to Chicago, over the fierce of objections of local leaders and residents. A military de-

ployment to Chicago has yet to materialize.

Officials and activists in the Chicago area opposed to the enforcement surge argue the approach is dangerous and imprecise, pointing to accounts of two U.S. citizens who were briefly detained this week by federal officers focused on immigration enforcement. Advocates also have protested the death of a man shot by an ICE officer on Sept. 12 after authorities said he tried to flee during a traffic stop, dragging the officer Marcos Charles, the acting head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, said in an interview with the Associated Press Friday that as of Thursday roughly 50% to 60% of the Chicago opera-

tion arrests were targeted arrests, meaning they were specific people that ICE was trying to find because they had committed a crime, had a final order of removal or had done something that put them on ICE’s radar

The rest were what’s often referred to as “collateral arrests,” meaning people that ICE comes across during their operations who aren’t the person they’re looking for but are in the country illegally, so ICE can arrest them.

Collateral arrests were not allowed during the Biden administration but the Trump administration threw out those restrictions almost immediately after coming into office as part of Trump’s efforts to beef up deportations.

The Department of Home-

land Security launched “Midway Blitz” after months of Trump administration criticism of Chicago and Illinois over state and local policies that restrict law enforcement cooperation with ICE. ICE says these policies mean that immigrants who’ve committed crimes in the U.S and can be deported as a result are instead released into the community ICE says it then has to go out into the community and track them down to remove them. Many local

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Student recorded argument about gender in classroom

BY JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press

HOUSTON The president of Texas A&M University, roiled by an online video of a confrontation between a student and professor in a class that discussed gender, said Friday that now is the time to leave, but he did not offer a specific reason.

Mark A. Welsh III and the school had faced political pressure and criticism, including from the governor, after the video was posted on social media. Colleges and universities around the country have been weathering controversies

over gender identity, sexual preference and diversity issues derided as part of a “woke” agenda.

The video was posted last week by Republican state Rep. Brian Harrison and showed a confrontation during a children’s literature course. The professor was later fired after Harrison called the professor’s actions “DEI and LGBTQ indoctrination.”

Welsh’s resignation, announced Thursday by university system leaders, took effect Friday

“President Welsh’s decision to resign comes at a critical moment, and we agree with him that now is the right time for change in leadership,” Robert Albritton, chair of the board of regents said in a statement.

When Welsh departed the administration building Friday, he was met by hundreds of cheering

students, faculty and others as he and his wife Betty left the campus.

But Welsh had lost the support of many students and faculty over firing the professor, Melissa McCoul, said Leonard Bright, a professor at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service.

“I think we all wish that he would have recognized that capitulating to these political requests was never going to end well for him,” said Bright, interim president of the American Association of University Professors A&M chapter

The video was taken by a student heard debating with McCoul about gender identity The student said those discussions in class were illegal because of President Donald Trump’s executive order that recognizes two genders and that the topic was against her religious beliefs.

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow its policy on passports for trans people

BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to let it enforce a passport policy for transgender and nonbinary people that requires male or female sex designations based on birth certificates.

The Justice Department appealed a lower-court order allowing people use the gender or “X” identification marker that lines up with their gender identity

It’s the latest in a series of emergency appeals from the Trump administration, many of which have resulted in victories amid litigation, including on banning transgender people from the military

The government argues it can’t be required to use sex designations it considers inaccurate on official documents. The plaintiffs, meanwhile, say the policy violates the rights of transgender and nonbinary

Americans.

The State Department changed its passport rules after Trump handed down an executive order in January declaring the United States would “recognize two sexes, male and female,” based on what it called “an individual’s immutable biological classification.”

Transgender actress Hunter Schafer, for example, said in February that her new passport had been issued with a male gender marker, even though she submitted the application with the female gender marker she’s used for years on her driver’s license and passport

A judge blocked the Trump administration policy in June after a lawsuit from nonbinary and transgender people, some of whom said they were afraid to submit applications An appeals court left the judge’s order in place.

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to put the order on hold while the lawsuit plays out.

“The Constitution does not prohibit the government from defining sex in terms of an individual’s biological classification,” Solicitor General D John Sauer wrote.

He pointed to the high court’s recent ruling upholding a ban on transition-related health care for transgender minors. The courts conservative majority found that law doesn’t discriminate on the basis of sex, and Sauer argued that finding also supports the Trump administration’s decision to change passport rules issued in 2021.

An attorney for the plaintiffs, on the other hand, said the passport rules are discriminatory

“This administration has taken escalating steps to limit transgender people’s health care, speech and other rights under the Constitution and we are committed to defending those rights,” said Jon Davidson, senior counsel for the LGBTQ & HIV Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.

Texas A&M president leaves after video controversy

Trump imposes $100K fee for H-1B applications

BY BARBARA ORTUTAY and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press

WASHINGTON President Donald

Trump on Friday signed a proclamation that will require a new annual $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications, among other changes to the program for highly skilled foreign workers that has come under scrutiny by the administration. H-1B visas are meant to bring the best and brightest foreigners for high-skilled jobs that tech companies find difficult to fill with qualified U.S. citizens and permanent residents. The program instead has turned into a pipeline for overseas workers who are often willing to work for as little as $60,000 annually That is far less than $100,000-plus salaries typically paid to U.S. technology workers. Trump on Friday insisted that the tech industry would not oppose the move. “I think they’re going to be very happy,” he said. Representatives for the biggest tech companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta, did not respond to messages for comment on Friday Mi-

crosoft declined to comment. Trump also announced he will start selling a “gold card” visa with a potential pathway to U.S citizenship. The “Trump Gold Card” will be available for a processing fee and a $1 million contribution after vetting. For companies, it will cost $2 million The “Trump Platinum Card,” meanwhile, will be available for a $5 million contribution and will allow foreigners to spend up to 270 days in the U.S. without being subject to U.S. taxes on non-U.S. income. Trump announced a $5 million gold card in February to replace an existing investor visa — this is now the platinum card. The H-1B program was created in 1990 for people with a bachelor’s degree or higher in fields where jobs are deemed hard to fill, especially science, technology, engineering and math. Critics say they allow companies to pay lower wages with fewer labor protections. Critics say H-1B spots often go to entry-level jobs, rather than senior positions with unique skill requirements. And while the program isn’t supposed to undercut U.S. wages or displace U.S. workers, critics say companies can pay less by classifying jobs at the lowest skill levels.

State auditor to review city’s finances

New Orleans council seeks budget clarity

BY BLAKE PATERSON Staff writer

The New Orleans City Coun-

cil is planning to ask the state’s top auditor to examine the city’s finances and provide clarity on the size of its budget deficit after a city budget hearing this week left council members with more questions than answers

N.O.

drainage power source offline

BY BLAKE PATERSON Staff writer

A key power source for New Orleans’ drainage system that got knocked out of service last month just as the state entered the height of hurricane season is expected to remain offline until late September, the Sewerage & Water Board said Thursday

The board still has enough backup power to run the system without the decades-old turbine, known as T5, but those sources are also error-prone and any additional outages could compromise the drainage pumps. Repairs to T5, which was taken out of service due to a faulty temperature sensor, were initially anticipated to take two weeks, the S&WB said in an Aug. 20 news

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Seafood analyzed after spill

Smitty’s Supply Inc incident prompts safety measures

BY DAVID J MITCHELL Staff writer

The catastrophic fire and explosions at Smitty’s Supply Inc. last month spilled chemicals into local streams, rivers and ponds.

State officials have now begun testing fish and other commonly eaten seafood in the Tangipahoa River and Lake Pontchartrain for any contamination from the weekslong spill at the Roseland-area lubricants plant.

Officials said laboratories will analyze the samples to help the state Department of Health and other agencies “assess any potential public health risks and determine if seafood consumption advisories are warranted,” according to a news release

“By working side-by-side with our federal and state partners to perform this vital work, we are ensuring that the people of Louisiana receive transparent, sciencebased information about the safety of our waterways and seafood,” said Courtney J. Burdette, secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality The state Department of Wildlife

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The 2025 budget deficit — the difference between the budgeted expenses and revenue and the actual spending and collections that accrue over the year — is more than $100 million, according to council member Joe Giarrusso and the Bureau of Governmental Research. That amount includes a $73 million personnel cost overrun and a $30.5 million reduction in estimated revenue

But officials with New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration, while reporting the cost overrun and certifying the reduced revenue estimate have not provided a number for the budget deficit, and at a budget committee meeting Wednesday, offered a different measure of the city’s financial health that

council members said was a separate issue.

On Thursday, the council is expected to vote on a resolution asking Louisiana Legislative Auditor Mike Waguespack “to determine the existence and extent of any budget deficit” and, if necessary offer recommendations for digging out of its shortfall, according to draft legislation sponsored by council members Helena Moreno, JP Morell and Giarrusso.

Waguespack said Moreno called him Friday morning to request his assistance and he told her he’s happy to help. He said his office plans to start compiling records next week and could have a report ready as early as the following week. Moreno, who shared the draft resolution with The Times-Picayune, said she and Giarrusso decided to ask for Waguespack’s

Playground preview

BY LARA NICHOLSON Staff writer

Those walking along Bucktown’s levee trail near Lake Pontchartrain will soon see a shrimp boat emerging from the ground.

The boat won’t look anything like the ships parked in the nearby marina, though. It’ll be an all-inclusive playground where children can play aboard the vessel as they look out onto Louisiana’s largest body of water Jefferson Parish broke ground on the new $1.82 million playground Friday the newest development in a yearslong plan to revitalize the harbor park and marina into an ecotourist destination by creating new marshland and other attractions in the area.

“Bucktown Harbor has so much

to offer bird watching, launching a kayak for a waterway excursion, fishing, jogging and enjoying outdoor events with friends and family,” said parish council member Hans Liljeberg, who represents Bucktown. “This new playground is a great addition to our community’s outdoor recreational options.”

The playground, designed to accommodate children with disabilities, was designed by Baton Rouge-based Joseph Furr Design Studio and will be completed next year.

Alongside the new playset, Jefferson Parish officials are working with a number of state and federal agencies on a $15.5 million Bucktown “living shoreline,” a first-of-its-kind plan to create roughly 20 acres of manmade marshland off the edge of the lake, designed to combat erosion and attract native wildlife while protecting the levee.

To create the swamp, the parish constructed nine 500-foot breakwaters off the coast to reduce movement in the water, and then dredged sediment from the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain and into the area last

St. Tammany Parish rebrands committee

BY WILLIE SWETT Staff writer

The St. Tammany Parish Council’s rebranded DOGE-like transparency committee, now dubbed the “Efficiency Committee,” held its first meeting on Thursday and while northshore District Attorney Collin Sims is no longer officially a member some independent taxing districts remained

skeptical. The new six-person committee, which is made up entirely of Parish Council members, aims to eliminate financial redundancies and review special taxing districts’ millage renewals. The committee’s formation, like its predecessor, comes as the parish searches for new funding sources for its criminal justice system.

“We’re doing the best we can to do a better job on spending peo-

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at the groundbreaking for a new playground at Bucktown Harbor

summer to serve as the foundation for future marsh.

In February, sand made from more than 300,000 recycled beer bottles was laid atop the sediment to bolster the ground and help marsh grass take root.

The project is currently sitting on pause for up to 18 months while the new earth settles and native flora begin to grow Once finished, marsh buggies will excavate the outer portion of the

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Metairie teen sentenced for school threats

Co-conspirator from Florida charged in swatting case

was sentenced to five years in prison following an investigation by Jefferson Parish detectives into bomb threats and prank “swatting” calls made to schools and law enforcement agencies in Metairie and other states, according to authorities. Angel Bonilla pleaded guilty Sept. 11 to three counts of terror-

izing and one count of obstruction of justice, according to Jefferson Parish court records. Bonilla had been charged with calling in fake threats to schools in locations including New York and Colorado, according to the authorities.

Jayden Bullard, 18, an alleged co-conspirator from Leesburg, Florida, is still awaiting trial on charges that he called in threats to Lutheran High School and Haynes Academy for Advanced Studies, both in Metairie, on Dec. 2 and Dec. 3, 2024, according to court records.

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marsh to serve as a “blueway” for kayaks, which are now available to rent starting at $20 per hour

Visitors to the area can view the lake and its shoreline from the new boardwalk, or atop the two-story Bird’s Nest Learning Pavilion that opened last year Still left on the docket for Bucktown’s transformation is the construction of a community garden, multipurpose grand pavilion and transient boat slips, which will allow boats from outside the marina to dock for just a few hours to enjoy the park or nearby restaurants.

Liljeberg said those projects are currently in the design phase.

Email Lara Nicholson at lnicholson@theadvocate.com.

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release

Officials break ground for a new playground at Bucktown Harbor on Friday.

The board revised that projection in a subsequent news release on Sept 2, saying that it expected T5 to remain out of service until late September It stuck to that timeline in an update Thursday

The S&WB said there’s no damage to the turbine and that its teams are working directly with the machinery’s manufacturer, GE, to “troubleshoot and address issues with the control system.”

T5 is one of two primary power sources, capable of supplying about half the megawatts needed to run New Orleans’ drainage system at peak demand. The other is a century-old steam turbine, known as T4, which also supplies about half the needed power

Eventually, the board plans to retire both turbines as it brings online a longdelayed new power complex. That complex will provide modern power for the city’s drainage system directly from Entergy New Orleans’ electricity grid. Its various components are expected to launch in the coming months, including Turbine 7, a modern turbine generator designed to produce backup power in case the electricity grid goes down.

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and Fisheries is also involved Greg Langley, a spokesperson for DEQ, said shrimp, crab and fish species commonly sought for food will be tested. Alligators, turtles and snakes won’t be tested. Testing in Lake Pontchartrain will focus near the mouth of the Tangipahoa, which empties into the lake.

The fire at the complex off U.S. 51 on Aug. 22 sent up a large black plume that rained soot up to 15 miles away, forced a 1-mile evacuation for a few days and spilled millions of gallons of chemicals.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contractors and staff have put in place more than 4.4 miles of protective boom to try to halt the oily runoff and collect it along nearly 50 miles of the river

They had recovered nearly 3.5 million gallons of oily material through midday Friday, EPA officials said.

Government officials haven’t said yet what chemicals burned or spilled at Smitty’s, but state reports say the complex could have been storing up to 8.7 million gallons of liquids, including motor oil, lubricants and hydraulic fluid. EPA officials said Smitty’s inventory showed naphthalene, xylene, ethylene glycol and phosphoric acid at the time of the fire.

Some people living along the lower river said they saw dark oily waste running down the Tangipahoa in the first days after the fire.

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Bullard is also accused of targeting Bonilla’s Metairie apartment with swatting — calling 911 to make false reports about violence that would prompt a large law enforcement response, such as a SWAT team deployment.

The Sheriff’s Office identified Bonilla as a suspect in the investigation when deputies were dispatched to a swatting call at his Edenborn Avenue residence on the night of Dec. 2, 2024, according to court records.

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assistance after they reviewed numbers provided by the Cantrell administration and realized they “didn’t calculate right.”

“I think it’s a really important step so that we finally end all this confusion and have a full understanding of the problem and can move forward on finding a solution,” Moreno said.

“We need a common set of facts,” Giarrusso said.

Cantrell’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Friday

Council members and administration officials have argued since January about the condition of the city’s finances, and the argument continued at some length at Wednesday’s committee meeting. Council members said they’ve received mixed messages, while Finance Director Romy Schofield-Samuel said her warnings had been written off.

By the end of the meeting, however, council members and administration officials agreed city finances needed urgent attention and seemed to reach a truce, albeit a shaky one

Chief Administrative Officer Joe Threat said he will soon propose a package of revenue and savings measures, some of which will require council action. Those measures could include overtime restrictions, a more expansive hiring freeze and furloughs, though officials say they want to avoid furloughs if at all possible.

The proposals notably did not include any new fee proposals, which have been publicly contemplated in other recent meetings They do include new debt: Cantrell’s administration is considering bond sales to dig out of the budget hole

The budget deficit has emerged as a frequent subject of debate on the campaign trail among candidates, including Moreno, vying to succeed Cantrell in the Oct. 11 primary.

State Sen. Royce Duplessis, another candidate for mayor, said he’d order a “hard audit” of the budget within his first 60 days of taking office. He also criticized Moreno in a social media video Thursday for not attending the budget committee meeting the daybefore.

“I don’t know why Helena Moreno was not at the meeting, but I think somebody that is running to be a ‘24/7 mayor’ should at least be at a meeting to talk about a budget deficit that we’re facing,” Duplessis said in the video.

Asked to respond to Duplessis’ criticism, Moreno said she’s been in frequent contact with Giarrusso “for quite some time” over budget concerns and will continue to work on finding solutions.

“Ultimately it’s about who is doing the work and who is finding solutions,” Moreno said.

Staff writer Ben Myers contributed to this report.

Email Blake Paterson at bpaterson@theadvocate.com. and follow him on Twitter, @blakepater

animal killed by the contamination — an oiled turtle.

Some residents and environmental groups have complained about the scope of air and water testing done since the fire — for instance, not testing for heavy metals in the air though EPA officials say they are following standard protocols.

For the seafood testing, contractors will look for heavy metals, such as arsenic, chromium, lead and barium, along with petroleum-related hydrocarbons.

Heavy metals can become more concentrated — thus more of a

Deputies had received at least five swatting calls reporting the home between October and December 2024, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Bonilla told investigators the calls were likely made by people he knew from online chat rooms and social media with whom he’d been “having issues.” He and the individuals, he admitted, had engaged in calling in hoax threats to schools in other states, authorities said.

Bonilla was arrested Jan. 2 and booked with terrorizing He pleaded not guilty

risk — as they “bioaccumulate” in animals such as fish that feed on other contaminated organisms in the food chain.

“The sampling will be conducted in multiple rounds to evaluate potential bioaccumulation of contaminants over time,” DEQ officials said.

To ensure accurate results, “control samples” of the same species will be taken from Bayou Lacombe for comparison. That river wasn’t affected by the Smitty’s spill, according to the DEQ.

Results from the first round of testing are expected in two

Bullard was later identified as a suspect in the case and arrested May 2 in connection with the swatting calls and the prank calls to Haynes Academy and Lutheran High School, according to court records. Bullard has pleaded not guilty to four counts of false communications with the intent to cause an emergency response, two counts of communicating a bomb threat and one count of terrorizing, according to court records. After accepting Bonilla’s guilty plea on Sept 11 Judge Ellen Shirer Kovach of the 24th Judicial District Court sentenced him to five years in prison on each count, according to court records. Kovach suspended three years

said at a meeting Thursday, addressing a crowd of fire chiefs and other representatives from independent taxing districts.

The committee could look into opportunities to consolidate insurance coverage for recreation districts, council Administrator Mary Burckell said, or consolidate some of the lighting districts or eliminate some of the drainage districts.

In addition to encouraging collaboration between different districts and the council, Burckell said the committee will also review some taxing districts that ask the council to have their millage renewals placed on the ballot.

According to the parish’s home rule charter, the Parish Council generally has the power to absorb special tax districts with voter approval.

DA’s involvement

While the new committee’s goals are largely similar to the former Transparency and Resource Accountability Committee, Impastato told the audience the committee was restructured to make them more comfortable.

Chris Kaufman, chief of Fire District No. 1 in Slidell, said he had no problem with an efficiency committee, but added, “If this is going to work, I said it to you before, it has to be done correctly and completely transparent.”

Kaufman questioned the makeup of the new committee, saying a former board chairman of the fire district had offered to participate. Impastato said he selected all the council members who are serving on the committee.

Kaufman also asked whether the District Attorney’s Office would remain involved. St. Tammany Mosquito Abatement District and some fire districts had in the past criticized the involvement of Sims, who is not only the parish’s top prosecutor but also the legal representative for many parts of parish government.

“We’re not involved in that other than the traditional role of being available to advise the council every day,” Sims said in a later interview

Chad Danenhower, a lawyer for some of the fire districts, noted the public nature of the earlier committee’s review of Mosquito Abatement, which led to a clash between Sims and the mosquito district. The district has filed a bar complaint against Sims, alleging he violated his obligations to him as their legal representative.

“I think it’s irresponsible for anybody to opine on the operations without a full understanding of those operations,” Danenhower said.

“I agree with that 1,000%,” Sims responded in an interview with The Times-Picayune. But he added, “I think it would be misguided to assume someone doesn’t do their research.”

Mosquito Abatement District Director Kevin Caillouet, who in the past has questioned Sims’ qualifications to conduct the review of mosquito abatement, said in an interview he thought the tone of the new committee had changed and he was appreciative of that.

Caillouet said he was open to sharing his district’s assets and equipment, such as its drones, helicopter, airboats and airplane, as well as administrative services like IT, human resources and accounting, and health insurance.

weeks. All results will be made public when available, DEQ officials said.

Jerry Lang, DEQ assistant secretary for the Office of Environmental Compliance, said the seafood sampling was the product of “long days and nights of coordination and fieldwork.”

“Responding quickly and comprehensively to environmental incidents is what our teams are trained to do,” Lang said.

David J. Mitchell can be reached at dmitchell@ theadvocate.com.

of the sentence and ordered that he serve five years of active probation once released. Bonilla was remanded to the custody of the Louisiana Department of Corrections.

Bullard was released from the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna on May 31 on a $150,000 bail. But he was transferred to Florida where he is facing similar charges, according to court records.

Bullard is currently free there on a $22,650 bail, according to court records. No trial date has been selected.

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“I’m hopeful that this committee can kick-start some of those things,” Caillouet said.

Parallel working group

While Sims is not a member of the Efficiency Committee, he has organized a separate working group with business leaders and parish officials and shared the findings from his review of the mosquito district with them.

Impastato said he is a part of that working group and it will make recommendations to the Efficiency Committee and to the council.

Sims said the working group aims to come up with a “comprehensive set of ideas” that could help give the parish executivelevel decision-making and reduce waste and spending.

“It would be the first step in showing we can do more with less of your money,” Sims said.

“It’s not about the mosquito district,” Sims said. “They are a symptom of a larger problem. They do good work.”

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NewRoads church revivesevent after20years

Bazaar sparks hope for community renewal

BY HALEY MILLER Staff writer

St. Augustine Catholic Church in New Roads was once alively,multigenerational communityhub. But now it’salittle worse for wear Water has stained the cathedral ceiling, mildew has begun to creep over the siding, and parts of the tile floor have chipped away Its congregation, like the population of the city of NewRoads surroundingit, is dwindling.

Residents and parishionershope to reversethe decline by calling upon a nostalgic andfestive form of community building: the church bazaar

“We’re resuming this festival because the church is still in need, more than ever,” church bazaar committee chair Tonya Scott Wyandon said. “The mountain that we’re having to climb is against all odds.”

It will be St. Augustine’s firstfair in 20 years. For many,the bazaar harkens back to the New Roads of their childhood, witha sense of togetherness and neighborly commitment to the good of thetownthat some feel is diminished now

Driving through the city, on the northern side of the train tracks, boarded-up houses and vacant businesses offer shadows of the town in its heyday

“Little by little, the economic staples that once maintained this primarily African American church community began to disappear,” Wyandon said. “This is where we stand right now.” NewRoads haslost over 1,000 residents since 1995, or almost 20% of itspopulation, according to U.S. census data. Many businesses in St. Augustine’sneighborhood, from ice cream parlors to grocery stores, have shuttered.

Residents are optimistic about revitalization, starting with the revival of the church fundraiser. Donations will go toward basic repairs of thebuilding, which is over 100 years old and has mostly relied upon patchwork fixes throughout the decades.

Those organizing the fair

N.O. police investigate kidnapping report

Boyallegedly taken, escaped captors

BY POET WOLFE Staff writer

The New Orleans Police Department is investigating areport that aboy was kidnapped Thursday afternoon in Algiers and escaped his captors after being taken to an abandonedbuilding. The child, whopolice identified as apreteen, was reportedly walking in the 2300 block of Kraft Place at 4:57 p.m. when two unknown suspects allegedly approachedhim and placed him in avan, according to the NOPD. The suspects then reportedly brought the childto an abandoned building, where he later escaped andfled.Noinjurieswere reported No suspects have been identified and the investigation is ongoing, according to police.

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CHURCH FAIR

DETAILS

WHEN: Oct. 4-5

WHERE: St.Augustine CatholicChurch,809 New Roads St ,New Roads

TICKETS: $2 at thedoor. Guests12yearsold and underget in free.

ACOMPLETE SCHEDULE IS LISTED ON THE ST.AUGUSTINEWEBSITE

also see itasanopportunity to invigorate the community and passdown theirlove of the church toyounger generations.

“One of the goals among many other goals ofbringing back the fair this year is to help bringthe church family and the entire community together,to share love, enjoythe company of each other,”the Rev. Joseph GbengaBenjamin wrote in an email.

Lifelong church member Mary Jackson recalled attending the fairasagirl, indulginginCreolegumbo, cotton candy and popcorn.

“Peoplewere happy to donate whatever was in their yards and gardens,” Jackson wrote. “It was refreshing to see how peoplewere so generous and how much theywere willing togive of what little they had.”

Pointe Coupee historian

BrianCostello said the church is central to the city geographically and culturally.Ithas weathered the challenges felt by thelarger community,hesaid.

“We’vehad floodsand crop failures and socioeconomic injustice, and the same families have attended St.Augustine throughall theyears,” Costello said “It’sbeen asymbol of hope andfaith, notonlyfor the families themselves but for

McNeeseState

Increase is largest in twodecades

BY COURTNEY PEDERSEN Staff writer

With the fall 2025 semesterinfullswing,McNeese State Universityiscelebrating a5% increase in enrollment over lastyear, following years of declining enrollment.

“Our analysis goesback to 2009, when McNeese enrolled around 9,000 students,” McNeeseState UniversityPresident Wade Rousse said.“By fall 2023, thatnumber had fallen to about 6,000. There were obvious outside pressures —hurricanes,COVIDand other challenges —but the truth is, the decline started long before those events.”

Rousse saidthe university didn’t previously have aclear plan that put enrollment front and center.However,once aplan was created andcommitted to 16 months ago, the university begantosee real momentum in reversingthe trend.

In fact,2024 was the first yearsince 2018that the university saw any sort of increase,asitwent from 6,061 students in 2023 to 6,243. This fall, McNeese enrollment rose by 5% to 6,556 students.

“Enrollment growth means greater financial stability,which is critical

NewOrleans Area Deaths

Celestin,Brian Conner, Harold Dufrene,Charles Ganier Sr., Donald HeathSr.,Robert Keller, Jeanne Lamping, Deborah Landry, Shelia Lindsey,Larry Martiny, Regina Soltis,Margaret NewOrleans

Gertrude Geddes Celestin,Brian Ganier Sr., Donald Lindsey,Larry Lake Lawn Metairie Martiny, Regina Soltis,Margaret Majestic Mortuary Landry, Shelia River Parish Millet-Guidry Keller, Jeanne West Bank Robinson FH Dufrene,Charles

Obituaries Celestin,Brian Joseph

the communityasawhole.”

For longtimechurch members, the decline in volunteeringand donations, andthe end of the annualbazaar in 2005, reflects theloss of the elders.

Wyandon remembered for example,how her grandmother wouldiron thechurchlinens every week.

“Wedon’t have as much exposuretocommunity anymorebecausewehave kids thathave grown up not

being as social, not being as involved,” she said.

But Wyandon and others believe the bazaar will reignite that fellowship. She’sbeen putting up signs, taping flyers on doors and spreading the word any way she can to getpeople to come out.

“People here also want to have something to look forward to,” Wyandon said.

“Theywanttohavesomething to do and look forward to.”

sees 5% enrollment bump

for McNeese’slong-term success,” Rousse said. “But it’salso energizing to walk across campus andsee so many students, to hear their stories, and towitness their dreamstaking shape. It’sa reminderthat our mission is to deliverlife-changing educational opportunities, and thatwork is incredibly rewarding.”

Roussesaidthe increase after 14 yearsofdeclining enrollment started after McNeese administrators acknowledgedthe problem andwere honest that what they had been doing was no longer working. The universitydeveloped its aforementioned strategic plan, withstabilizing enrollment being thetop priority

“Westreamlined operations, reorganized the universityand createda new organizational chart built around measurable goals,” Rousse said. “Today,every employee canexplain how their worksupports recruitment, retention or career placement for our students. That sharedsense of accountability hascreated a culture of determination, andwe’re thrilledtosee it paying off.”

Rousse saidina Monday news release that, along withthe increase in enrollment, theuniversityhas its largest first-timefreshman classinmanyyears, with a 13.3% increase over 2024.

“Even ourdorms arefull forthe firsttimeinover

twodecades,” Rousse said in the release. “You can feel the energy and excitement across campus.”

In the release, Rousse saidthat facultyand staff played an important rolein showcasing the campus, its diverse programs,and academic reputation. The university’s“winning culture,” illustrated by the men’sbasketball team’sback-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances, was also noted as acontributor to the momentum.

Roussesaidthattocontinue building the university’senrollment, McNeese will keep executing its plan.

“That meansbuilding excitement through our outward-facing programs, ramping up marketing, making the enrollment process as smoothaspossible,and strengthening student retention,” Rousse said. “Just as important, we’ll continue tracking job placement rates and starting salaries for our graduates.Sustained growthdepends on onething above all else—ensuring McNeese graduates are landing good jobs.”

To retain newstudents, McNeese launcheda First Year Experienceprogram this year that is designed specifically to boostretention

“Weknowthatstudent involvement during the freshman year is the sin-

gle most important factor in keeping students on track,” Rousse said. “This program is built to make sure ournewestCowboys are engaged and connected from dayone.”

Theuniversity is also hoping thatits newstudent union, opening at the end of 2025, withstudy andmeeting areas, aballroom for events anda newcafeteria, will assist in enrollment andretention.

“Our goal is to make McNeese thepremierregional university in Louisiana and Southeast Texas, and we arewellonour way,”Rousse said in the release.

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It is with abrokenheart thatweannouncethe passing of BrianJoseph Celestin, who transitioned toHeaven, on 16 Septem‐ber 2025, after battlingan aggressiveformofkidney cancer. Brianwas born in New Orleans, LA to James and Marthiel Celestin.A proud veteranofthe UnitedStatesArmed Forces, he wasprecededin death by hisfather, James Celestin, andlovingdo‐mesticpartner,Sandra Brown. He is survived by his mother,sister, and nephew. Although this is goodbyefor familyand friends,wehavefaith that we’ll be together again. Until then,heisresting in our hearts.Private Burial Services. Youmay sign the guest book on http://www gertrudegedddeswillis. com. Gertrude Geddes Willis FuneralHomeInc in charge(504) 522-2525.

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Harold L. Conner passed away peacefully at home on September 14, 2025 after ashort battle with cancer.

Harold is survived by his wife of 31 years, Nancy Robeson Conner; his mother, Lucina "Lucy" Garcia Conner; brothers Lawrence "Larry" C. Conner (Toni), and Richard "Ricky" M. Conner (Kori); nieces Erica C. Arrington (Trey), Kristen C. Boargoub (Adam), and Courtney C. Landry (Taylor); nephews Jeffery A. Carlson (Michelle) and Brian T. Conner (Emily); great-nieces Delilah Arrington, Madison Arrington, Caia Conner, and Aliyah Boargoub; great -nephews Jude Joyce and David Pitfield; and many cousins.

We know he has been reunited with his father, Martin "Marty" Carriere Conner; sister Cynthia Lee Conner Carlson; and brother Brian David Conner, all of whom preceded him in death.

Harold never met a stranger, and he enjoyed connecting with so many people in his travels throughout the world as an account manager in thefinancial sector. He loved to find unique places to stay wherever his travels took him. His love of fine dining would always top off any trip to acity, and he was always excited to share restaurant recommendations for any destination you'd tell him you were traveling to.

Harold was aproud LSU fan, right down to the ringtone on his phone, and loved to watch them play every season. He keptin touch with many fraternity brothers from chaptersat LSU and Louisiana Tech throughout his lifetime and would often reminisce about the good olddaysin college. Harold enjoyed golfing, and living on the golf course in Beau Chene meant he could sit in his living room and watch people play right in his back yard. He and his beloved dog Sophie would spend hours outside hunting up stray balls from unlucky golfers. Living in Beau Chene also meant Harold and Nancy could go to their favorite restaurant, Gallagher's, most every Friday to enjoy awonderful dinner. One of Harold's favorite pastimes was spending time with his father and brothers on fishing trips. The Conner boys all loved to debate andmany a night was spent catching up and talking about the events of the time. Over the years there were alot of wonderful stories, mostly about time together as opposed to actually catching fish. Harold's passion for books andold movies spokevolumes abouthis love for adventure. He would lose himself in the stories and in recounting his travels abroad, he would often retrace steps or visit locations from a movie he had seen or book he had read. The Jimmy Buffet lifestyle was afavoriteofhis and most destinations involved time at the beach or under an umbrella enjoying acocktail somewhere. According to Harold's final wishes, the family will gather together in aprivate celebration of his life. In true Harold fashion,he asked that all who knew him simply remember the good times and have a cheerful toast in his honor.

Dufrene, CharlesMurphy

CharlesMurphyDufrene departedthislifeonFriday, September 12, 2025 at his homeinWestwego, LA,at the ageof84. He wasa de‐voted husband,fatherand friendwho dedicatedhis lifetohelping others.He proudly served hiscountry inthe United States Marines andwillbedearly missedbyhis loving fam‐ily.Son of thelateMurphy and AliceRomineDufrene Beloved husbandof20 yearstoKristyLynn

Dufrene. Devotedfatherof BrandyLynnDufrene.He was thebrother of Berna‐dineand Earl Cordwell, Ed Tassinand thelateNick Cordwell, and wasthe grandson of thelate Leonard andAmelia Romine. Mr.Dufrene is also survivedbyother relatives and devotedfriends allof whomheloved dearly.At Mr. Dufrenerequest,there willbenopublicservices. Arrangementsentrusted to RobinsonFamilyFuneral HomeofBelle Chasse LA, (504) 208-2119. Foronline condolences,pleasevisit www.robinsonfamilyfuner alhome.com

Donald Robert Ganier, Sr.,age 86, wasbornon August17, 1939 in NewOr‐leans,LA. He passedaway onWednesday,September 10, 2025 in Houston, TX Donaldwas thebeloved fa‐therofDr. Donald Ganier Jr. (Pamela),Rodney Ganier(Hop) andGizelle Ganier-Sims.Adoring grandfather of Dominique Dorsey, Detrielle Bailey DarianGanier, Aaron Ganier, Landon Sims BrysonSims, Zakariyya Ganierand JuliaGanier. He was also survived by 6 great-grandchildren anda hostofnieces, nephews, cousins andother relatives and friends. He waspre‐ceded in deathbyhis lov‐ing wife Jacqueline Ganier; his parentsSidneyBernard Ganier Sr.and Maude Robin;and hisstepfather ClaudeRobin.Relatives and friendsofthe family, alsoPriestand parish‐ionersofCorpusChristiEpiphanyCatholicChurch are invitedtoattend the MassofChristian Burial on Saturday, September20, 2025 at Corpus ChristiEpiphanyCatholicChurch 2022 St.Bernard Ave.,New Orleans,La. 70116 at 10:00 a.m.Visitation from 9:00 a.m.until 10:00 a.m. Inter‐mentMount Olivet Ceme‐tery, 4000 NormanMayer Avenue, NewOrleans,LA 70122. Youmay sign the guest book on www.ger trudegeddeswillis.com Gertrude Geddes Willis Fu‐neral Home,Inc.incharge (504) 522-2525.

RobertLouisHeath, Sr. of Metairie, Louisiana,fell asleep withthe Lord on September 17, 2025, at 79 yearsold.

Robertloved God, his family, and this country. At 18 yearsold, upon graduating highschool in Vinton, Louisiana,heenlisted in the US Navy. He wasstationedoutside of Athens, Greece, wherehemet his "lucky Penney"(Panagiota Kafandari), who would soonbecome his wifeof57 years. They havetwo children, his son Robert Jr.and daughter Angela Robert receivedhis Bachelors in electrical engineeringfromMcNeese (Lake Charles, LA) and his Masters in engineering from Tulane (New Orleans, LA). He had adistinguished careerasanengineerat Entergy (formerly Louisiana Power &Light) for almost 40 years. Beyond his professional accomplishments, Robert was most proud of his family, especiallyhis three grandsons

He is preceded in death by hisfather, Harry Prescott Heath, mother Marie Catherine nee Aja, and beloved brother Richard JosephHeath.He is survivedbyhis wife, Panagiota(Penney) Heath, daughterAngela Heath, sonand daughterinlaw Robertand LoriHeath,and grandsons Joshua, Michael,and Nicholas Heath. The family willhavea private ceremony,and the internment of Robert'sremains willbein

Annavossos, Greece,the place he lovedthe most. The family requeststhat anyone who wishes to honor Robert'smemory do so with adonation to Tunnels to Towers Foundation, acharityto which he was devoted.

Jeanne BoéKeller, the mostdevoted wife,loving mother, andselflessMimi, entered eternity Septem‐ber 17, 2025, at theage of 89. Herbeautiful memory willliveonthrough her husband of 67 years, HaroldKeller, children Ronny Michel (Michael), MattKeller(Monica), Ann Watson(Michael),15 grandchildren,and 26 great-grandchildren.She was preceded in deathby her daughter,Kay Serven and son-in-law Tony Ser‐ven.She wasthe daughter ofthe late Raouland Eu‐phemieTassinBoé,sister ofRay Boéand thelate Raoul (Bobby)Boé,Martha Fourroux, CaireBoé,Alvin Boé,ElmaLeBlanc,and Elizabeth Guidry.Family and friendsare invitedto attend services at First Baptist Church of LaPlace onSaturday, September20, 2025. Visitation is from 10 a.m.-12:00 noon,witha ser‐vicebeginning at 12:00 noon.Arrangementsare being handledbyMilletGuidryinLaPlace.Tosend flowersora memorial gift tothe familyofJeanne Keller, please visitour SympathyStore

Lamping, Deborah W. 'Debby'

Debby, passed away Wednesday, March 26th, 2025 at age 74. She is survivedbyher loving husband of 45 years, James Lamping. She was thedevotedmotherof ChristopherGant of New Orleans and stepmother to Christine (Jeff) Rhodesof KansasCity, Kansas, Jennifer (Patrick) McCauslandofNew Orleans and grandmother to PaddyMcCausland.She leavesher sisterRebecca (Robert) Ramelli, her nieces Rana (Joey) Cabeceiras, Rachel (Paul) Reineckeand nephew CaseyRamelli. She also leavesher grandniece CaitlynCabeceiras and her grandnephews Jacob Cabeceiras, Robert Ramelli, ReevesRamelli, RogerRamelliand Pierce Reinecke.

Debby was born April 20th, 1950 in Council Grove, Kansas, thedaughterof Lester and Georgiana Wendlandt.Her family moved to NewOrleans in thelate1950's.She graduated from St. Martin's Episcopal School in 1968 and received adegree in Marketing from the University of NewOrleans in 1975. Debby briefly worked for Drawing Board Greeting CardsofDallas, Texas beforeembarking on alifelong careerasa healthand beauty aids broker. Debbywas an ownerand partner of Pinnacle Sales and Merchandising, Allen, Texas Debby lovedbeing a wife, mother, sisterand aunt.She lovedher family and of course,her precious ShihTzus.

Please keep Debby in your heartsand prayers.

Shelia AnnLandry, of New Orleans, La.entered into eternalreston

Wednesday, September3 2025, surrounded by her family. Born on January13, 1962 to thelateWillie LandryJr. andDelilah Jack‐son Landry,inNew Or‐leans,La. Shewas agradu‐ate of Carver Senior High She is survived by herchil‐drenAlbert, Javana,Tyrone Landry, stepdaughter Kab‐rinaBrooks, 3brothers, Wilbert(Yvonne), Paul, Ronaldand 7sisters, BrendaL.Hunter,Jacque‐lineL.Motton, Delilah Landry, Florence L. Banks (Charles),Dianne l. Free‐man,Linda L. Deverney (Narvin)and Patricia L. Nicholas. Hergrandchil‐dren, Lorinzo, Nyra,Nya, Nyla, Jawuan, Ja’nae Malek Landry,Desmond Whiteand ReshiNorton and 2great grandchildren and 1uncle Booker T. Washington. Shewas pre‐ceded in deathbyher par‐ents, Delilahand Willie LandryJr.,husband,Kevin Stampley, brothers,Willie III, Alonzo,John, Donald and Clay Landry,2 broth‐ers-in-law, HerbertMotton Sr. andVincent Hunter Jr., and 1sister-in-law,Hazel PatriciaLandryand one godchild, MurondaLandry. FuneralService will be held at12:00 noon on Saturday September 20, 2025 at Pil‐grimRestBaptist Church 2428 Flood Street,New Or‐leans,LA70117. Viewing 10:00 am -12:00 noon.Bur‐ial will be private. Profes‐sionalarrangementsen‐trusted to Majestic Mortu‐ary Service, Inc. (504) 5235872.

Larry Lindsey, age72, nativeofMorgan, City and residentofGibson, LA, passedawaypeacefully on September 3, 2025. He leavestocherish hismem‐ories,his children Jas‐maine Lindsey, Shelita Lindsey Bailey (Willie), Johnathan Lindsey, sib‐lings WayneLindsey,Ellis Roach,Debra Lindsey, Karla Lindseyand Laura Lindsey.Hewas preceded indeath by hiswife, Carrie Lindsey;parents,Robert and LauraLee Lindseyand brother,RobertLindsey Relatives andfriends of the familyare invitedtoattend the CelebrationofLifeSer‐viceonSaturday, Septem‐ber 20, 2025 at Gertrude GeddesWillis-Terrebonne FuneralHome, 617 Bond Street,Houma,LA70360 at 10:00 a.m. Visitation from 9:00a.m until 10:00 a.m. Private Burial.You may signthe guestbook on http://www.gertrudeged deswillis.com. Gertrude GeddesWillis-Terrebonne FuneralHome, Inc. in charge(985) 872-6934.

Martiny, Regina MaryKimble

Regina Mary Kimble

Martiny, age96, passed away peacefully on September 13, 2025, leaving the card table with a full hand—and probablyan ace up her sleeve. She didn't lose thegame—she was just tired of winning.

She was preceded in death by her loving husband of 60 years, Albert William Martiny, Jr.whose charm and gregariousspirit matched her own. She was thedaughterofthe late Julius B. Kimble and Regina Federer Kimble, and was reunited in rest withher eleven siblings: HelenPetermann, Julius Kimble,Jr.,Herbert Kimble, Leona Lahaie, Claire Amato, JosephKimble, Rose Mancuso, Raymond Kimble, Frank Kimble, Leon Kimble, and John Kimble.

She leaves behind five adoring children, Albert William Martiny III (Bonnie), Robert Louis Martiny(Sue), Regina Mary MartinyDuBuisson(N. Eric), Steven James Martiny, and Donna MartinyClement

(Geoffrey).Reginaalso held aspecial place in her heartfor hernephew, AlbertJoseph Mancuso Jr., whoshe considered ason

Granny's joymultiplied with hertwelveadoring grandchildren: Lt Col. Caleb Michael Martiny USAF Ret. (Gillian), N. Scot DuBuisson (Brianne), Regina Marti DuBuisson (Michael Steiner), Erin Martiny Hebert (Shane), Courtney Clement Schmitt (Ronnie), GeoffreyPeter Clement, Jr.(Jenna), Joshua David Martiny, Victoria "Tori"Martiny Brenes(Jairo), Katie Clement Dillard (Dean), StevenJames Martiny, Jr (Kelly), Carly Clement Laque (Steven),and ColleenClementParfait (Dylan). Herseventeen great grandchildren who broughther so much joy, ElliotDuBuisson, Madeline "Maddy" Martiny, McKayla Schmitt, Aidan Hebert, Henry"Hank" Martiny, Connor Clement, Jordyn Hebert,BenjaminDillard, Clara DuBuisson, Tullia Steiner, Crawford Dillard, PresleyMartiny,Javi Brenes,Emmett Laque ReeceMartiny,August Parfait, andLaurel Laque Andsix loving step great grandchildren, Lauren Dodd,HannahHebert, Caeleigh Messina, Kaeden Norris, DylanSkeldon,and Austin Vasquez.

As matriarch of the Kimble familyReginaisalso survived by ahost of loving nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews, and even greatgreat nieces andnephews.

Knownaffectionately as Mom, Granny,orAunt Regina she wastruly one of akind- always with a song for everyoccasion (including afew jingles best notsunginchurch), a quickwit, anda talentfor turninggatheringsinto celebrations withher famous whiskeysnowballs.

Born on July 16, 1929, a native NewOrleanian and proudresident of Metairie for 63 years, Regina was always ready to play agame of cards rarelymissing her Canasta, Boureeand Poker games with neighborhood friends. Regina was adevotedparishionerofSt. Louis King of France and charter member of St Angela Merici,a member of MetairieWomen'sClub, andArchbishopRummel Old Timers.

Regina believedinthree things:love deeply, laugh often,and always getto Mass.

We'llmiss yourlaughter, yoursass, andyourunwaveringfaith. Game over, Granny—you won!

Relativesand friends are invited to celebrate Regina's life on Monday, September 22, 2025, at Lake LawnMetairie Funeral Home. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m., followedbya Mass of Christian Burial at 12:00 pm, celebrated by Fr. Beau Charbonnet. Interment will follow at Metairie Cemetery

Soltis, Margaret M. Harkins

Margaret Mary Harkins Soltis died on September 13, 2025, at the age of 81 after along battle with dementia. Shewas born in Somerville Massachusetts, on May28, 1944. Herparents,Albert Green Harkinsand Eileen Rita Griffin Harkins, and sister,CatherineMay, predeceased her. Thosewho surviveher includeher husband, Bruce Soltis, her son, KennethSoltis (wife Celeste Sonnier),and grandchild,Marguerite Marie Soltis. Herbrother, DanielHarkins (wifeTrudi), also survives her, along with seven nieces and nephews. Herlifewas marked by herprofound humor, whichlives in the memories of those who lovedher.Margaret, as she wasknown in adulthood, graduatedfromMatignon High School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1962, she matriculated at Boston's Emmanuel College, whereshe earned adegree in chemistry. In 1966, fearing alimited job market dominatedbysec-

retarial andtypist positions, she enlisted in the US Navy duringthe Vietnam War.The Navy offered herequal opportunity anda chance to see the world. Shedisagreedwith theUSinvolvementin Vietnam andjoked that her superiors in Officer Candidate School believed shewas acommunist, so theystationedher in quiet Bainbridge, Maryland. Her commandrotated enlisted sailorsbetween sea and shore duty. There, she met another officerwho became the love of herlife andfuture husband of nearly 55 years. After an honorabledischarge from theNavy in 1968, she taughtfor ayear in Maryland. In thefall of '69 she spentsix monthstravelinginEurope on abudget of dollars aday. Ajournal of hertripdescribedanothertraveler calling her allocation laughablylow andmentioned splurging on a25-cent cup of coffee. Upon returningin1970, she and Bruce became engagedand moved together to Michigan.Theymarried that OctoberatOur Lady of VictoryChurchin Centerville, Massachusetts. Whileher husband attendedgraduate school, Margaret was theprimary earner, with stints teaching and workingina university toxicology lab.Later, sheworked in awastewatertreatment facility andliked to laugh aboutheading into stinky sewers to collectsamples In 1977, she moved to New Orleansafter herhusband took ajob there.She found employmentasa technician in theUSDA's Southern Regional ResearchLaboratory, helpingtodevelop permanentpressfinishesfor cotton fabrics. Margaret developed lupusinearly adulthood. She periodically suffered from debilitatingautoimmune attacks, oneof whichcost hera kidney. Thedisorderpreventedher from conceiving,but with thedisease in remission in 1980, she gave birth to her belovedson,Kenneth, in January1981. After her son's birth, she became a full-time mother. Andin her40s, Margaret took up yoga andher lupuswent into permanentremission Shehad agreat love of art andfilledsome of hertime volunteering as adocent at theNew Orleans Museum of Art. There, she combinedher interest in art with herteaching experience by leading school childrenontours of the museum.Inthe late80s, Margaret took up pottery anddeveloped into a formidable amateur artist throwing pots. Shebecame adept at manipulating glazes to create beautiful finishes.Her artistry evolved into making what were essentially portraits made of clay. On sheetsof clay, sheeithercarved or added thin strips of clay to createboth abstract and realistic faces.She gave many pieces to friends and familyasgifts. In her70s, Margaret developed dementia, whichrobbed her of muchofher personality. Perhaps hergreatest trait washer sense of humor. Shehad the abilitytolaugh at anysituation and her playfulness could make a boring situation, like waitinginlineatagrocery store, suddenly interesting. Hercomedyendeared hertofriends andloved ones. Hergift wasso strongthather dementia couldnot steal the glee of laughterfromher eyesuntilher final weeks.Her wit survives,always. Friends andFamilyare invited to attenda funeral at Lake LawnMetairie Funeral Home in NewOrleans,5100 Pontchartrain Blvd., on Wednesday, September24. Visitation begins at 11 am, followed by aservice at noon. After interment guestsare invited to areception at theSouthern Yacht Club, 105 N. Roadway St.inNew Orleans, at 1:30 pm.

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Wall Street coasts to latest record-setting week

NEW YORK Wall Street tacked on some more gains Friday as it glided to the finish of its latest record-setting week.

The S&P 500 rose 0.5% to close out its sixth winning week in the last seven. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 172 points, or 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.7%.

FedEx helped lift the market after delivering stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected. It rose 2.3%, thanks in part to strength for its domestic package business.

Newmont rallied 4.3% after the gold miner sold its investment in Canada’s Orla Mining for $439 million.

American Airlines hit with $9.6M judgment

A federal California jury ruled that Fort Worth-based American Airlines should pay $9.6 million for neglecting a passenger who suffered a stroke onboard a flight from Miami to Madrid, failing to report his midflight symptoms.

The San Jose-based jury found that when Watsonville, California, resident Jesus Plasencia suffered a stroke after takeoff on Flight 68 in March 2021, flight crew did not follow American’s policies and procedures, according to a statement from his attorneys.

Plasencia, a chef, suffered a short transient ischemic attack, sometimes referred to as a mini stroke, while at the gate in Miami, according to evidence presented at the six-day trial, the statement said. Plasencia was unaware that the attack had happened. However, Plasencia’s wife alerted a flight attendant that her husband temporarily lost motor control and began speaking “gibberish,” according to the statement.

Instead of reporting the incident to medical personnel, an American Airlines pilot cleared Plasencia for takeoff, in contradiction with the carrier’s policies, the statement said. After Plasencia began displaying stroke symptoms after takeoff, the flight crew asked other passengers to watch him but did not inform the pilot about the incident, according to the statement.

N.C. judge orders $50M for helicopter crash death

CHARLOTTE,N.C.— A North Carolina judge has ordered $50 million be paid to the family of a Charlotte TV station meteorologist who was killed in a helicopter crash three years ago after finding the companies that owned and operated the aircraft liable in his widow’s wrongful death lawsuit.

Following an evidentiary hearing earlier in the week, state Superior Court Judge Forrest Bridges issued a judgment order Thursday directing insurers for the Total Traffic & Weather Network, iHeartCommunications and iHeartMedia to make the payment within the next two months.

WBTV meteorologist Jason Myers and pilot Chip Tayag died in November 2022 after the Robinson R44 helicopter crashed along a Charlotte-area interstate.

The flight’s purpose was to provide Myers video training over a simulated news scene, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

Jillian Myers initially sued the companies and a maintenance facility in March 2023 for the death of her 41-year-old husband, with whom they had four children. The maintenance facility was later removed as a defendant.

A National Transportation Safety Board report last year determined the probable cause of the crash was inadequate inspections, resulting in an eventual loosening of hardware and subsequent loss of helicopter control. A postcrash examination of the flight controls showed hardware that should have been connected to a part on the main rotor was disconnected and the connecting hardware was missing, the final NTSB report says.

Trump’s

BY CURT ANDERSON Associated Press

ST PETERSBURG, Fla.

— A Florida

federal judge on Friday tossed out

a $15 billion defamation lawsuit

filed by President Donald Trump against The New York Times.

U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday ruled that Trump’s 85-page lawsuit was overly long and full of tedious and burdensome” language that had no bearing on the legal case. The judge gave Trump 28 days to file an amended complaint that should not exceed 40 pages.

“A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations or a podium for a passionate oration at a political rally,” Merryday wrote in a

four-page order “This action will begin, will continue, and will end in accord with the rules of procedure and in a professional and dignified manner.”

Trump’s legal team plans to continue the lawsuit “in accordance with the judge’s direction on logistics,” spokesman Aaron Harison said The lawsuit named four Times journalists and cited a book and three articles published within a two-month period before the last election.

The Times had said it was meritless and an attempt to discourage independent reporting. “We welcome the judge’s quick ruling, which recognized that the complaint was a political document

rather than a serious legal filing,” spokesman Charlie Stadtlander said Friday Merryday noted that the lawsuit did not get to the first defamation count until page 80. The lawsuit delves into Trump’s work on “The Apprentice” TV show and an “extensive list” of Trump’s other media appearances. “As every lawyer knows (or is presumed to know), a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective not a protected platform to rage against an adversary,” wrote Merryday, an appointment of former President George H.W Bush. “Although lawyers receive a modicum of expressive latitude in pleading the claim of a client, the complaint in this ac-

tion extends far beyond the outer bound of that latitude.”

The lawsuit named a book and an article written by Times reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig that focuses on Trump’s finances and his pre-presidency role in “The Apprentice.” Trump said in the lawsuit that they “maliciously peddled the fact-free narrative” that television producer Mark Burnett turned Trump into a celebrity — “even though at and prior to the time of publications defendants knew that President Trump was already a mega-celebrity and an enormous success in business.”

The lawsuit also attacked claims the reporters made about Trump’s early business dealings and his father, Fred.

Trump says he will go to China in '26

Trump, Xi speak on wider trade issues

BY DIDI TANG and JOSH BOAK Associated Press

WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump

said he would meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a regional summit taking place at the end of October in South Korea and will visit China in the “early part of next year,” following a phone call between the two on Friday

In a Truth Social post, Trump said Xi would come to the United States “at an appropriate time” and that they had made progress on “the approval of the TikTok Deal” to allow the popular social media app to keep operating in the U.S., though he didn’t give details.

A statement from the Chinese government did not mention the visits, nor did it offer clarity on what Xi had agreed to regarding a sale of a controlling stake by TikTok’s Chinese parent company to avoid a U.S. ban. But Xi told Trump to avoid imposing trade restrictions to keep trade ties from getting worse, according to the statement.

“The call was a very good one, we will be speaking again by phone, appreciate the TikTok approval, and both look forward to meeting at APEC!” Trump wrote, referring to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group of 21 economies on the Pacific Rim.

Efforts to finalize the TikTok deal

ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese-owned parent company, expressed interest in ongoing negotiations to ensure the app’s services continue for U.S users, without providing much insight into how the ownership question would be resolved.

The Trump administration said earlier this week that a framework deal for the app’s ownership was reached with Chinese officials during trade talks in Madrid.

Trump, who has credited the app with helping him win another term, several times has extended a deadline for it to be spun off from ByteDance. It is a requirement under a law passed last year seeking to address data privacy and national security concerns.

U.S officials have been concerned about ByteDance’s roots and ownership, pointing to laws in China that require Chinese companies to hand over data requested by the government. Another concern is the proprietary algorithm that populates what users see on TikTok.

Race

to make

BY QUEENIE WONG Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Chinese officials said Monday that a consensus was reached on authorization of the “use of intellectual property rights,” including the algorithm, and that the two sides agreed on entrusting a partner with handling U.S. user data and content security Craig Singleton, senior China fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank, said there does not appear to be a done deal over TikTok.

“Beijing frames market-based talks under Chinese law, keeping a de facto veto, while Trump casts himself as the final approver,” he said.

Trump and Xi speak on wider trade issues

Top U.S. and Chinese officials have held four rounds of trade talks between May and September, with another likely in the coming weeks. Both sides have paused high tariffs and pulled back from harsh export controls.

They are yet to reach any deal however on tech export restrictions, Chinese purchases of U.S. agricultural products or fentanyl.

The Trump administration has imposed additional 20% tariffs on Chinese goods linked to allegations that Beijing has failed to stem the flow to the U.S. of the chemicals used to make opioids.

China responded by levying additional 10% to 15% tariffs on U.S. farm goods.

Trump’s second-term trade war with Beijing has cost U.S. farmers one of their top markets. From January through July, American farm exports to China fell 53% compared with the same period last year

The damage was even greater in some commodities: U.S. sorghum sales to China, for instance, were down 97%.

smart glasses relevant heats up again with new tech

More than a decade ago, pricey smart glasses that allowed people to snap photos, text and browse the web generated a lot of buzz but also resistance People who wore Google Glass in 2014 faced backlash over fears that the smart glasses, priced at $1,500, would secretly record people or make human interactions socially awkward. Two years later, the company behind the disappearing messaging app Snapchat tried selling sunglasses equipped with a camera in vending machines, but the wearable gadget also flopped. Today, major tech companies — including Facebook’s parent company Meta, Google and Snap — are racing once again to entice more people to wear a computer on their face, competing to build what they view as the next big computing platform.

Apple, the maker of the iPhone, and e-commerce giant Amazon are reportedly working on hightech glasses too. And ChatGPT maker OpenAI this year teamed

up with Jony Ive, a former Apple executive known for designing the iPhone, to build new AI devices that will “completely reimagine what it means to use a computer.”

The race to develop wearable technology that could become as ubiquitous as smartphones is intensifying as AI assistants become increasingly integrated into people’s daily lives. The use of smart glasses, however, is still niche and may take several years to become more mainstream, analysts say

“We’re heading in the right direction. It seems like 2025, 2026, even 2027 will be the years of inflection in the growth trajectory for smart glasses,” said Jitesh Ubrani, a research manager at the International Data Corporation who covers wearables. Consumer adoption of smart glasses is growing. In the U.S., roughly 17% of online adults indicate they’ve used smart glasses, up 4% compared to last year a survey Forrester released this year shows.

“While Meta has a head start on AI glasses, competition is champing at the bit,” wrote Mike Proulx, a vice president and research di-

rector at Forrester in a blog post about Meta’s AI-powered glasses. Samsung, HTC and Apple are expected to release smart glasses next year

Snap, the Santa Monica-based tech company behind Snapchat, is also positioning itself as a contender Snap plans to sell more powerful augmented reality glasses in 2026. The company announced this week that it updated the operating system that powers its AR glasses.

Augmented reality technology overlays computer-generated images over the physical world and is used in games like Pokémon Go. It is also used for face filters on apps like Snapchat where people wear digital dog ears or change their hair color

Meta, which already sells RayBan smart glasses and virtual reality headsets, showcased its latest smart glasses in Menlo Park, Calif., on Wednesday night.

The lineup: a more advanced pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses starting at $379 with a longer battery life, AI assistant and the ability to capture more vivid videos; Oakley

Meta Vanguard glasses starting at $499 designed for workouts; and Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses with a high-tech wristband starting at $799 that makes it possible for people to send text messages and complete other tasks using subtle hand gestures.

“Glasses are the only form factor where you can let an AI see what you see, hear what you hear, talk to you throughout the day,” said Meta’s Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday night at Meta’s developer conference. “So it is no surprise that AI glasses are taking off.”

During the event, Zuckerberg showcased how donning smart glasses allows him to capture video while walking and running at the same time. He showed how the smart glasses, when paired with a smart wristband, could be used to write and send text by subtly moving one’s fingers. He played music and even tried to take a WhatsApp video call — though that live demo failed.

“We’ll debug that later,” Zuckerberg said on stage after he couldn’t answer the WhatsApp call using the wristband and glasses.

Abitter moment of national division

Recent events have not brought the nation together, as many had hoped, buthave torn us further apart. We all know Democratsdon’tlike the Republican Party and Republicans don’tlike the Democratic Party That’sunderstandable. But anew national poll from the Economist/YouGov lays out evidenceofthe deeper, more scorching, temperofour times.

Majorities of voters in eachparty describe the opposing sideas“evil,” “extreme,” “intolerant” and “corrupt.” Mind you, these areAmericans talking about one another, including neighbors, friends and family members.

The poll finds that 88% of voters believe the nationhas become more “politicallydivided” during the past five years. More ominously, nearly nine out of 10 voters believe there is greater politicalviolence now than there was 10 years ago. These numbers paint apicture of Americashaped by internal discord,a conditionthatwill become more hateful, more distrustful— and, heavenforbid, more violent —aslong as commonvalues and shared beliefs fall away.

Based on the poll, 10% of the nation’selectorate which includes 16% of Kamala Harrisvoters and 5% of Donald Trump voters— sayit’s“justified for citizensto resort to violence in ordertoachievepolitical goals.”

At first glance, you maythink this is somewhatgood news, that only one out often Americans thinkviolence can be justified. But consider whatthisnumber really means: The equivalent of 10% ofU.S. adults is 27 millionpeople. That’salot of peoplewho see political violence as an option.

Overall, 65% of voters are concernedabout left-wing extremism (including 90% of Republicans) and 62% are concerned about right-wing extremism(including 88% of Democrats). Among independents, who eschew both party labels, 56%are concerned about extremism on the left and 57% aboutextremismonthe right. Not surprisingly,awhopping 73% majority ofconservatives think most politicalviolenceinthe U.S. is committedbythe left, andahuge 69% of liberalssay most is committed by the right. Independentssplit nearlydownthe middle.Mostmen,Whitesand those 45 and olderperceive the left as the culprit; mostwomen, Blacks and those youngerthan45view theright as the culprit. Hispanics are closely divided.

From awider perspective,72% of votersbelieve thecurrent momentinAmerican politics feels likea “significant turning point.” This is howself-fulfilling prophecies come true. The recent assassinationofconservativeactivist Charlie Kirk wasboth anationaltragedy and apainfulcatalystfor much of this moment. While millions of Americans across the spectrum mournhis death and pray for his family, the entire electorate is evenly divided on Kirk himself: 39% favorable,39% unfavorable. The partisan differenceisstark: 75%ofRepublicans are favorable toward him and only 5%are unfavorable; in the reverse,just 4%ofDemocratsare favorable toward him and 68% are unfavorable. That’sabout as polarizedasyou canget While 68% of Republicans believe Kirk’skiller was motivated by left-wing beliefs,only 10% of Democrats agree. Fifty-three percent of Democrats believe other beliefs motivated the killing. As we often see, it’sbecoming harder to get agreement across party lines on thefacts forany issue.

For years, political scientists argued that the nation needed a“responsible” two-party system, which meant parties marked by cohesionwithin their ranks and clearly opposing viewsbetween them. Well, they got it. And it’satleast partlyresponsible forthe slow-motion collapse of American democracy. When you add together technology,social media, unlimited money and ideologically rigid parties,the result is apolitical system that breeds extremismand corruption. It also pushesindependent thinking out of the process and forces unpleasant Election Day choices.

Today’spartisans and politicians don’tnecessarily want the system to be thisway —the founders gaveus fair warning —but they have walkedbackwardinto the morass. While they pursue honestly-held beliefs, they tend to only blame the otherside,and notthe system itself, for its ills. This means no common ground, only killing fields of political combat. Andthat, more than anything, has led to this moment. Is this what it feels like whenacountry is on the vergeofbreaking apart? Let’s hope not.

RonFaucheux is anonpartisan political analyst, pollster and writerbasedinLouisiana.

Help keep olderLouisianans on their feet with access to physical

We don’toften think of slips and trips being public health concerns, but falls andfalls-related injuries are some of the most pressing health risks facing olderLouisianans. Theseaccidents often lead to serious injuries, aloss of independenceand substantialhealth care costs —all figures that will keep risingunless lawmakers intervene. My colleaguesatPhysiofitPhysical Therapyand Irecently hadthe opportunity to welcome staff from the office of Sen. Bill Cassidy,where we shared more information aboutthe keyrole physical andoccupational therapists play in reducingfall risks.

Thegood news is that falls are preventable.The badnews? Medicare doesn’t currently cover fallsrisk assessments providedbyphysical andoccupational therapists —falls experts whoare trainedto assess balance, strength andmobility and help individuals developpersonalized plans to avoid falls. That’s

why I’m encouraging Sen. Cassidy to support the bipartisan Stopping Addiction and Falls for the Elderly (SAFE) Act. This common-sense legislation would allow Medicare beneficiariestoreceive ano-cost falls risk assessment during their annual wellness visit by the very professionalstrained to prevent falls: physical andoccupational therapists. Passing the SAFE Act would help reversethe trends of the costly,deadly andgrowing problem facing adults 65 and older,asfalls are the leading cause of injury for this population.

Older Louisianans deserve access to the preventive care that will keep them on theirfeet and out of the hospital. Iurge Congress to take action to safeguard the health, safety and qualityoflifeofour aging population by improving access to physical therapy.

RUTGERUSJONGBLOETS regional vice president, UpstreamRehabilitation

We areheading toward acceptingapolicestate

Ihave traveled extensively throughout theU.S., Europe and Israel. There are only four places in which Iencountered armed military troopsonthe street: New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, Jerusalem and TelAvivin1991 and communist-occupied Prague in 1969.

Now,President Donald Trump’s solution to crime is thedeployment of military troops on U.S. streets, beginning in Washington, D.C. He

In arecent letter,areader implied thatthose who recite the Pledge of Allegianceand yet advocate to house “nonviolent immigrants” at Angola may be hypocritical. The Pledge says, “with liberty and justicefor all,” yet some politicians advocatefor incarceration in Angola The reader seems to believe that such apolicy is cruel, inhumane and even “ungodly.”

threatensthat Chicago is on the list.

From what I’ve read, Adolf Hitler showed his power in Nazi Germany by sending paramilitary forces into German cities as early as 1933.

TheRepublican Party has always stood for less federal government involvementinour lives. Is this really the way to make America great?

MARYSCULLY NewOrleans

Iwonder if the reader believes that those who are convicted of robbery, assault and even murder shouldstill enjoy liberty. If not, then whatabout those who break this country’s laws by entering illegally? Shouldtheyremain at liberty? Would that servejustice? Immigration is greatly to be desired, but only when done lawfully DAVID LAROSE Bush

Our elected representatives here in Louisiana never disappoint in their ability to defy reason or decency Rep. Clay Higgins’ recent call to defund the New Orleans Health Department is anew low in idiocy Why would we listen to pediatricians who have hadabachelor’sdegree, followed by four years of medical school and then athree-year pediatric residency? After which, they must become licensed by passing the appropriate exams. Instead, we should follow the latest social media posts by our Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr alawyer and vaccine skeptic who hasaworm in his brain? Aman who wasconfirmed in his post due to the idiocy of Sen. Bill Cassidy, who is nowhaving buyer’sremorse. Higgins, along with other flat-earth science deniers and “their band of sorcerers,” should stay out of the way of the dedicated health professionals doing their jobs to keep us healthy

PATTY SPINALE NewOrleans

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meet the lsu starting tight end whose career began as a fifth-string Qb at southeastern

BY WILSON ALEXANDER staff writer

Afew games into his first season as a tight end, Bauer Sharp called his dad.

“I’m never playing quarterback again,” Sharp’s dad recalled him saying. “I love this.”

Sharp had been recruited to Southeastern Louisiana as a quarterback, but after spending his freshman year so far down the depth chart that he remembers being fifth string, he changed positions.

Four years later, Sharp is the starting tight end for No. 3 LSU. Everyone in his family has gotten tattoos on their wrists once they’re old enough that say “our story,” and Sharp’s stands out on a team filled with former blue-chip recruits. He’s the only starter at LSU this season whose career began at an FCS school.

Sharp was an unranked, zero-star prospect coming out of Dothan (Ala.) High. His one scholarship offer came from Southeastern.

He has thought a lot about how far he has come since then, especially this week LSU plays Southeastern at 6:45 p.m. Saturday inside Tiger Stadium

“That’ll probably be a little emotional for me,” Sharp said.

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SoutheasterngaveSharpachance whenno one else did, and it began his development into a tight end. He hadplayedthe positiononce before hisredshirtfreshmanyear.But he gotgood enough to transfer to Oklahoma, then come to LSU for his final college season,hoping to prove he can playinthe NFL.

“His story was one offer,” saidSharp’smom, Amy.“He’s like,‘With thisone offer,whatam Igoing to do with it?’ And he is doing exactly what the Lord has written out. He puts in the hard work. He’sgoing to showwhat he can do.”

Through three games, Sharp is LSU’sthirdleading receiver withnine receptions for 97 yards,including a65-yard catch-and-run in a winagainst Florida. Lined up as afullback on the final drive against theGators, he helped spring running back Caden Durham for a51yard gain that letLSU drain the rest of the clock.

“You don’twant atight end that can’t hold his own in the run game, and he certainly can do that,” LSUcoach BrianKelly said. “Catches the ball, is accountable, is agreat teammate and at the end of the day,he’sgoing to compete his tail off for youfor fourquarters.”

Looking back, there were signs thatmaybe Sharpalwaysshould have playedtight end. He was aphysical childwho likedtowrestle with hisdad andbox in the front yard with the neighbor. Therewas atimewhenhefelt timid playingfootball,but once thatwentaway, he lovedcontact. He once toldhis momhewanted to playdefense so he could hit people. He never slid as aquarterback

“He played quarterback likehewas alinebacker,” said Sharp’sdad,Jason Sharp didn’tcomefromafootballfamily His dad had played second baseatAuburn University at Montgomery.Sharp was alsoa talented baseball player,starring as ashortstop andcenter fielder,and he didn’t play football in ninthgrade becausesummerbaseballhad run long. The arm strength he needed to makethose throws was the reason he played quarterback

“I hadone speed: just slinging it as hard as I could, just because of baseball,” Sharp said. “I’d runaround,throw it wherethe open guywas. I was raw.Iwasn’tagood quarterback.” Sharp was home-schooled until eighth grade, when his parents enrolled him at Northside Methodist Academy.Heimpressed as thestart-

STAFF PREDICTIONS

WILSON ALEXANDER

LSU 38,SLU 0

Afterholdingits firstthree opponentsto10pointsor fewer, LSUwillrecordits firstshutout of theseason. Southeastern hasscored101 points over itspasttwo games, butitgot shut outinits season opener against LouisianaTech. LSUhas an even better defense, andit’s hungry fora shutoutafter lettingone slip away against LouisianaTech. Andyes,the offensewilllookbetter againstanovermatched opponent

REED DARCEY

LSU 35,SLU 7

Note that Southeastern hasatop-20FCS scoring defensethrough threegames,but don’tforgetthe caveat that it shouldn’tmatter. TheLions areanFCS team.The LSUoffense should roll.Ifitdoesn’t,then GarrettNussmeier mightbefurther away from full health than BrianKelly hasindicated,and theTigers’ offensiveissuesmight be more ingrainedthanwethink they are. Expect four or five touchdowns

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ing quarterback, but if he wanted to play college football, he needed to go to ahigherlevel.He transferred to Dothan High, a6Aschool at the time,and playedmultiple positions during his junior year

Thefollowing spring, former Alabamacoach NickSaban visited Dothan High to check on afour-star runningback. He talked to Sharp while he wasthere. Sharp, whogrew up rooting forAlabamabecause his dad’s side of the family was from Tuscaloosa, felt stunned. “But in the back of my mind,”Sharp said, “I didn’thave confidence that Icould go to Alabama and play football at quarterback.” Afew weeks later,the COVID-19 pandemic began. Normal recruiting shut down as Sharp became Dothan’sstarting quarterback. He was talland lankyatthe time, so he joineda CrossFit gym. His parents also got him aspeed coach. The pandemic wrecked his recruitment, butinhindsight,itgavehim time to develop his body

“I wasmore athleticcoming outofCOVID than Iwas before,”Sharp said.“That setme up for life, honestly.”

During his senioryear,Dothan went 2-7after moving up to the 7A classification. South Alabama, his mom’salma mater,showedinterest in Sharp, but it never extended acommittable offer after the NCAA gave every player an extra year of eligibility because of COVID.

“That broke his heart,” Sharp’sdad said. At the same time, then-Northwestern State assistant coach and recruiting coordinator Anthony Scelfo was looking for aquarterback in the2020 class. Using asoftwarethatlet him find every high school quarterback within driving distance, he compiled alist of names from around the South and watched their film. Scelfo identified Sharp and aquarterback out of Arkansas. Northwestern State planned to take the first one that joined the class. The other player got the spot, but Scelfo called his dad, Southeastern head coach Frank Scelfo, to recommend Sharp.

Though then-Southeastern offensive coordinator GregStevens said the team wasalready recruiting him, Sharp credited Anthony Scelfo with getting him an offer.Ifnothing had come, he would have played junior college baseball.

“If he didn’twork out at quarterback,” Stevens said, “he was big enough and athletic enough that we could movehim to another position.” As Sharp redshirted his first season, the coaches noticed his training in the weight room and began to talk about his position. He wasn’tready to playquarterback anytime soon, andSharp

SCOTTRABALAIS

LSU 41,SLU 3

I’mgoing to go outonashort limb here andsay theTigers finallyget theiroffense untracked… to a reasonable degree.yes,Garrett Nussmeierdoesneedto play in this game despitehis naggingtorso injury.Such is thestate of theLSU offense— no time fortimeoff.The Tigers at long last buildsomeoffensive momentum and haveNussputting hisfeetupshortly afterhalftime.

KOKI RILEY

LSU 49,SLU 7

LSU’soffensive issues havebeendocumentedatlength, andnewsofGarrett Nussmeier’storso injury adds to theconcerns.But Southeastern Louisianaiseasilythe weakestteamonLSU’s schedule.The Lionswereshut outbyLouisiana Tech back in Week 1, andthey’re the only FCSschoolLSU faces. If LSUdoesn’t jump outto abig lead by halftime,the groans will grow louder

wanted to do whatever he could to get on the field. They had conversations about turning him into adefensive end/outside linebacker. But listed at 6-foot-5 and 220 poundsatthe time with his experience on offense, tight end made themostsense. It took time for Sharp to learn anew position after he switched duringspring practice.He understood the offensiveschemefrom playing quarterback, which he thoughtgave him an advantage, but his techniqueneeded alot of work.Asraw as he was, he did everything at full speed

“He had no idea what was going on,” Stevens said. “He was like awild buck running everywhere.”

As he began to figure things out, Sharp played in every game and started twice as a redshirt freshman. He caught 11 passes for78yards anda touchdownand ran 10 times for 83 yards. He became known for the hits he delivered on kickoffs.

Ayear later,Sharp impressed in aseason-opening loss to Mississippi State. He caught only two passes for 20 yardsand ran once for 13 yards, but physically,helooked like he belonged witheveryoneelse on thefield After the game, some Mississippi State players talked to him.

“Bro, our coach said he wants youtoplay for us,” Sharp remembered them saying. Sharp began to think about transferring afterthat.

during an in-homevisit with tight ends coach Joe Jon Finley and then-offensive coordinator SethLittrell.

“They were great at figuring out what to do with thatintensity,thataggression, howtohelp himkind of point it in the right direction and use it to his benefit,” Sharp’sdad said.

In his first year in the SEC, Sharp led Oklahoma in receptions (42)and yards receiving (324) whilestartingevery game. But gutted by injuries, theOklahomaoffense was amess.

Littrell got fired in the middle of the season.

They were greatatfiguring outwhat to do with that intensity, that aggression, how to helphim kind ofpointitin the right direction and useitto his benefit.”

JASON SHARP Bauer’sdad, on Oklahoma football

“I know Icould play somewhere big,” Sharp said. “There was alwaysthis feeling like, bro, I’m meant for something so much bigger.”

Over the rest of the 2023 season,Sharp played in every game and made eight starts. He caught 29 passes for 288 yards andthree touchdowns, and he added133 yards and five touchdownsonthe ground as awildcatquarterback. His dad got phone calls before the season ended from teams that wanted him to transfer.

“When he walked in and tolduswhat was happening,” said AnthonyScelfo,who joined Southeastern’sstaff in 2021, “and theoffers that were coming in, we’re like, ‘What areyou doing? Whyare you still in the building?’ ” Thistime, many teams were interested. Sharp narrowed them down to Oklahoma, Utah and Tennessee. He committedtothe Sooners

With uncertainty around the coaching staffand quarterback situation,Sharp beganto thinkabout transferring again for his last year of eligibility He needed morefilm to reach theNFL, andhis family was concernedOklahoma would not use the tight end position theway he needed it to.He and his parentsthought about it for weeks before he entered thetransfer portal.

“It smelled like arebuilding year coming,” Sharp’sdad said.

“Andwith oneyear left to really show theNFL scouts what he can do, we didn’twant to be part of arebuild.

“Now, Oklahomahas done a great job,and we had no doubt that they wouldspend whatever it took to get thatteam back to where it needs to be. It’s Oklahoma,soyou know they would get back. Butthere wasn’t aguarantee, andthere weren’tenough pieces in place at the time.”

Sixdays later,Sharpvisited LSU. Auburnhad called, too. It’s closer to home, andhis sister goes there. But LSU offered him everything he wanted. He committed before he left campus, making him the first transfer to join theteam in theoffseason.

On Saturday, Sharp looks forward to seeing theformer Southeastern coaches and teammateswho helped him get this far.Hehas told hisdad he wished he could have gone to one school and stayed there for four years.

But that’s not his story

“It blows my mind,” Sharp said. “You really can never take it for granted, what God does.”

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Youngstown St.(2-1)atTowson (2-1),5 p.m.

Lehigh(3-0) at Bucknell(2-1), 5p.m.

Cornell (0-0) at Albany (NY)(0-3), 6p.m.

SOUTH SC State (2-1) at South Florida(2-1), 11 a.m.

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Maine (0-3)atGeorgia Southern (1-2), 6p.m.

Stanford(1-2) at Virginia (2-1), 6:30 p.m.

Georgia St. (1-2) at Vanderbilt (3-0),6:30 p.m.

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RWEST TexasTech (3-0)atUtah (3-0), 11 a.m. Indiana St. (2-1)atMontana (2-0), 2p.m.

THENATION

THINGS TO WATCHINWEEK4

Who, what andwhere to keep an eyeoninthisweek’sgames around thenation

GAMECOCKSHEADTOCOLUMBIA

1. GEORGIA

Record: 3-0overall, 1-0 SEC

Previous rank: 2

QB ARNOLD RETURNSTOOKLAHOMA

Auburn quarterbackJackson Arnold revisits his old stomping groundsinNormanwhenNo. 22

Auburn (3-0)visitsthe 11th-rankedSooners (3-0) on Saturday.The Tigers offense averages 37 points and415.7 yardsper game.JeremiahCobb hasrushedfor 314yards and four touchdowns andaverages 6.8yards percarry,and Eric Singletonand CamColeman lead thereceiving corps. OU counters with oneofthe nation’s best defenses.The Soonersranksecond nationally in fewest yardspassing allowedper game (84.7),fourthintotal defense(181.0) and fourth in points allowedper game (6.3).

RANKED BIGTEN SQUADS TO BATTLE

Bret Bielemaand Curt Cignetti havebuilt budding powers in theBig Ten, BielemaatNo. 9Illinoisand Cignetti at No.19Indiana.Bothhave3-0 marks headingintoSaturday. Last year Cignetti brokethe Hoosiers’ losing legacy with theschool’s firstCollege Football Playoff appearance.Illinoishas followed asimilar trek up thepolls.The Fighting Illinihavetheir highest rankingsince Dick Butkus finalcollege season in 1964 andheadintothisweekend seeking their firstroadwin as atop-10teamsince 1990 Indiana is lookingfor asignature wintoput itself back in themix foranother playofftrip.

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No.23Missouriplays host to SouthCarolina(2-1) on Saturday.The Tigers (3-0)feature arobust ground game ledbyrunning back AhmadHardy, whohas 462yards on 57 carriesand five touchdowns Senior QB Beau Pribulahas 791 passingyards,seven TDsand oneinterceptioninthree games. Mizzou hasthe nation’s fifth-best defensethisseason, allowing 191.3yards pergameand only 100passing yards pergame. QB LaNorris Sellersand theGamecocks look to bounce back from last week’s 31-7 loss to Vanderbilt.Sellers haspassedfor 431yards,two TDsand an interception this season

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Last week: DefeatedTennessee44-41 (OT)

Thisweek: Idle

2. LSU

Record: 3-0overall, 1-0 SEC

Previous rank: 1

Last week: DefeatedFlorida 20-10

Thisweek: vs.Southeastern Louisiana, 6:45 p.m. Saturday(SECNetwork)

3. TEXASA&M

Record: 3-0overall, 0-0 SEC

Previous rank: 12

Last week: DefeatedNotre Dame 41-40

Thisweek: Idle

4. TEXAS

Record: 2-1overall, 0-0 SEC

Previous rank: 3

Last week: DefeatedUTEP 27-10

Forasmuch anticipation as there is for every LSU football season, from the action on thefieldto the bandstoMikethe Tiger prowling and growling in his habitat, every campaign has itslow point. Its“Hit the snooze button and wake me when things start cooking again” week.

Typically,Saturday’sWeek 4encounter between No. 3LSU and theSoutheastern Lions in Tiger Stadium (6:45 p.m., SEC Network) would qualify

But this has not been a typical week.This has not been atypical team, thefirst potential powerhouse LSU team of the transfer portal/ NIL era, stuffed as it is with atalented roster compiled for $18.5 million, per coach Brian Kelly Normally,everyone around here would like to hit the fast-forward button on a game like this and get to thefinal score, then get on with the preparationsand chatter leading up to an always heated and hated rivalry game with Ole Miss. As Grand Moff Tarkin said in “Star Wars” before he and the DeathStar were blown to smithereens,3-0 LSUwill have timeto“deal with your Rebel friends soon enough.” For now,there is pressing business and pressing things to prove against the 2-1 Lions.

There has been alot more drama and intrigue this week for LSU thannormal for your garden variety in-state game. The Tigers have won 38 straight against in-state opposition since fallingin1982toTulane Unless asinkhole opensupbeneathKelly’s heroes coming down VictoryHill beforethe

game, that streak is certain to run to 39 It’simportanthow LSU plays against SLU,not just thatitplays. Afterscoring just 53 offensive pointsintheir first three games —albeit against good to very good defenses from Clemson, Louisiana Tech and Florida —the Tigers absolutely have to get the engine revved up against the Lions LSU’splayersappear to have grasped that concept coming off a20-10 win against Florida in which theTigers scored only 13 offensive points.

“I feel as if we didn’tplay our best,” starting left tackle Tyree Adamssaid Tuesday.“Everyonecould see that.Wehave to focus now on dominating practice, and that will carry us through thegames.”

Kelly indicated that Adams’ attitude was one that pervaded theteam, declaring Thursday that the Tigers had agreat week of preparation. They needed it. No one inside that locker room wants to see arepeat of the Nicholls State game from ayear ago, agame LSU won 44-21 but one that the Tigers only led 23-21 in the thirdquarter.OrLSU’slackluster 23-7 victory over Louisiana Tech two weeks ago. LSU simply has to get going offensively or it risks squandering avery realistic opportunitytowin awide-open Southeastern Conference and get intothe CollegeFootball Playoff.

All this talk circles back to thedebate over whether Garrett Nussmeier should play quarterback for theTigers on Saturday.Kelly revealed Monday that his star slinger has been battling a“torso injury” (thinksome kind of muscle pull or strain that has limited his throwing ability) since preseason camp. Kelly said Nussmeier will

play,adamant that he feels better than he has in weeks and is “returning to health,” as aformer LSU coach used to say For Kelly,parking theNuss bus this week to vastly increase theodds of having him healthy for theseason’snext big showdown at Ole Miss apparentlyhas not entered into theequation.

“Let’splay Garrett, see how it goes and make adjustments during the game,” Kelly said Thursday,hinting that if the Tigers get far enough ahead of theLions you could see backup quarterback Michael VanBuren get his first on-field action in this one.

That has to be LSU’shope, not needing to have Nussmeier takeaknee in victory formation as he was at theend of theFlorida game.

That was Florida. No offense to the folks from Hammond, but this is SLU.LSU has got to show something positive offensively against theLions, who are arespectable team on the FCS level. If not this week, when? If Nussmeier’sinjury situation has indeed limited theoffense as Kelly suggests, we should start to seesomesigns.

Not that scoring 40, 45 or 50 points against SLU with 200 yards rushing and 300 yards passing will prove LSU’soffense is ready to be an upper-echelon unit in the SEC. Butitwould be astart. An important, perhaps confidence-building start. Don’t thinkfor asecond LSU’soffensive players and coaches aren’twondering the same thingsabout themselves that everyone on theoutside is wondering. So don’tsleep through this LSU non-con contest. There is plenty to watch for, and plenty to evaluate on the other side.

Thisweek: vs.Sam Houston, 7p.m. Saturday (ESPN+/SECNetwork+)

5. OKLAHOMA

Record: 3-0overall, 0-0 SEC

Previous rank: 4

Last week: DefeatedTemple42-3

Thisweek: vs.Auburn, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ABC)

6. VANDERBILT

Record: 3-0overall, 1-0 SEC

Previous rank: 7

Last week: DefeatedSouth Carolina 31-7

Thisweek: vs.Georgia State,6:30 p.m. Saturday(ESPNU)

7. TENNESSEE

Record: 2-1overall, 0-1 SEC

Previous rank: 10

Last week: Lost to Georgia 44-41 (OT)

Thisweek: vs.UAB,11:45 a.m. Saturday (SECNetwork)

8. OLEMISS

Record: 3-0overall, 2-0 SEC

Previous rank: 11

Last week: DefeatedArkansas 41-35

Thisweek: vs.Tulane,2:30 p.m. Saturday (ESPN)

9. MISSISSIPPISTATE

Record: 3-0overall, 0-0 SEC

Previous rank: 9

Last week: DefeatedAlcornState 63-0

Thisweek: vs.Northern Illinois, 3:15 p.m. Saturday(SECNetwork)

10.AUBURN

Record: 3-0overall, 0-0 SEC

Previous rank: 5

Last week: DefeatedSouth Alabama 31-15

Thisweek: at Oklahoma, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ABC)

11.MISSOURI

Record: 3-0overall, 0-0 SEC

Previous rank: 6

Last week: DefeatedUL52-10

Thisweek: vs.South Carolina, 6p.m. Saturday(ESPN)

12.ALABAMA

Record: 2-1overall, 0-0 SEC

Previous rank: 14

Last week: DefeatedWisconsin 38-14

Thisweek: Idle

13.ARKANSAS

Record: 2-1overall, 0-1 SEC

Previous rank: 13

Last week: Lost to Ole Miss 41-35

Thisweek: at Memphis, 11 a.m. Saturday (ABC)

14.SOUTH CAROLINA

Record: 2-1overall, 0-1 SEC

Previous rank: 8

Last week: Lost to Vanderbilt 31-7

Thisweek: at Missouri, 6p.m. Saturday (ESPN)

15.FLORIDA

Record: 1-2overall, 0-1 SEC

Previous rank: 15

Last week: Lost to LSU20-10

Thisweek: at Miami, 6:30 p.m. Saturday (ABC)

16.KENTUCKY

Record: 2-1overall, 0-1 SEC

Previous rank: 16

Last week: DefeatedEastern Michigan 4823

Thisweek: Idle

GOOD TIMING

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BY GUERRYSMITH

Contributing writer

Potentially catching OleMiss at the perfect time in between Southeastern Conference home games against Arkansas and LSU, Tulanehas to make sureit is emotionally andphysically ready to maximize that advantage.

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Nearly atwo-touchdown underdog to the No. 13 Rebels in amatchup of 3-0 teams, the Green Wave already hasexpended plenty of energy entering its final nonconference game, which is why coach Jon Sumrall shortened practice Monday,Tuesday andWednesdaybefore moving Thursday’s walk-through to the air conditioning of the Caesars Superdome

While almost every other team in the country feasted on at least one cupcake, Tulane faced Northwestern of the Big Ten, went through thestressofdefending atying two-point conversion attempt in the final minute at South Alabama, and upendedDukeand former Wave quarterback Darian Mensah in acharged atmosphere at sold-out Yulman Stadium.

“We’ve got some bumps andbruises

thatwehave to be mindful of,” Sumrall said. “While it takes what it takes to be prepared, the most important thing is making sure our guys are fast and fresh and in the mostadvantageous position from an availability,health andfreshness standpoint. We haven’thad agame like alot of people have where your backups are playing at halftime.”

The challenge is immense even though Ole Misswill go with backup quarterback Trinidad Chamblissfor the second week in arow in place of injured starter Austin Simmons, accordingtoa report by Chris Low of ON3. Chambliss, atransfer who arrived after springpractice from Division II national champion Ferris State, completed 21 of 29 passesfor

353yards andran 15 timesfor 62 yards and two scores in the Rebels’ 41-35win against Arkansas.

Ole Miss is 17-0 in nonconference regular-season games under coach Lane Kiffin. All but one of the victories were by double digits, and the Rebels scored at least 40 points 11 times.

Tulane has lost 13 in arow to SEC opponentssince winningatMississippi State 32-29 in 2006 and has not beaten aranked SEC team since No.19Vanderbilt in 1984. Itslast venture to Vaught Hemingway Stadium turnedintoathunderstorm-delayed, 61-21 debacle at the end of its HurricaneIda-forced evacuationto

Saints defensive end Carl Granderson reacts after making a stop against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday in the Caesars Superdome.

Saints’Grandersonoff to fast start

MATTHEW PARAS

SEATTLE To understand why Saints pass rusher Carl Granderson is

for the NFL lead in sacks, start with aplay that wasn’ta

Saints’ season opener,Arizona Cardinals running back Trey Benson broke containment down the right side. This, admittedly,was terribledefense from the Saints. But as Benson ran downthe 25, the 35 and the45, Granderson suddenly entered the frame. The defensive

endsprintedpastcornerback KoolAid McKinstry andlinebacker Pete Werner to bringdown the running back. He limited the damage to 52 yards instead of atouchdown Want to know why Carl Granderson leads theNFL in sacks? Hustle. Effort.Grit. “He’sgot arelentless motorthat’s obvious on the silent tape,” defensive coordinator Brandon Staley said. Granderson’s relentlessnesshas resultedin31/2 sacks to beginthe season, tying him with Cleveland’s MylesGarrettand NewEngland’s

HaroldLandry at the top of the leaderboard. Granderson’ssacks arevery much areflection of hiseffort. Against the Cardinals, he chased Kyler Murray out of bounds behind the line of scrimmage and then took Murray downagain fora half-sack afterteammateCam Jordan made the initial hit. Aweek later against the San Francisco 49ers, Granderson cleaned up on an initial pressure generated by Bryan Bresee. Then on hissecond sack, Grandersonsprinted over to greet quarterback Mac Jones after aWerner blitzforced himtostepupinthe pocket.

BY DAVE CAMPBELL AP pro football writer

EAGAN, Minn. Ja’Marr Chase wasasked this week whether he felt emboldened enough to use Justin Jefferson’ssignature touchdown celebrationshould he score forCincinnati in Minnesota’s stadium, and the Bengals star had no hesitation in stating his desiretotaunt his Vikings counterpart. “If he doesn’twant me to do it,” Chase said, “then I’mgoing to do it now purposely.” Jefferson introduced theNFL to “The Griddy” as arookiein 2020, the leg-hopping, arm-swinging, eye-circlingdance he does as an ode to his home state of Louisiana. Chase actually picked it up first from achildhood friend and showed it to Jefferson and the rest of the team when they were together at LSU. Now they’re friendly rivals of sorts, jockeying forunofficial position as theleague’sbest passcatcher.Their teams will meet Sundayfor just the third time, playing in opposite conferences.

The Bengals won the first two games, both at homeinovertime by 27-24 margins.

“Who knows what I’ll do when Iget in the end zone? Maybe I might getafine this week.Who knows?” Chase said.

Overthe four-plus seasons since Chase was drafted by Cincinnati with the fifth overall pick in 2021, Jefferson has the most receiving yards (6,157) in the league with Chase (5,616) three spots behind him.Jefferson has thefifth-mostreceptions(414) and Chase is sixth (411).Last year,Chase won the receiving triplecrownbyleading the NFL in catches, yards and touchdowns while joining Jefferson on The Associated Press All-Pro team. Not that sharing such an honor made much of aripple in their relationship. “I just think we’re immune to

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BY LUKE JOHNSON and MATTHEW PARAS Staff writers

With only four opportunities to judge his performance intwo games, theNew OrleansSaints aren’tlosing any sleep over kicker BlakeGrupe

Grupe has lined up for fourfield goals and missed two of them both coming from relatively easy range by his standards. In the opener,itwas arushed operation on a38-yard attempt thatresulted in amiss to the left. Last week, he pushed a40-yard attempt to the right after the Saints’ opening drive,a missed opportunityto take an early lead.

He’smade his other two attempts, both coming from inside 40 yards, but the two misses were asurprise after Grupe turned in an extraordinary training camp. Asurprise, but not anything that is causing the Saints anxiety

field goal attemptduring agameatthe Caesars Superdome on Sunday. Notebook

“He hit high on the ball, his toe was up alittle bit, and that’swhy the ball spun to the rightonhim,” special teams coordinator Phil Galiano said. “Wewent and kicked yesterday,hehit the ball great, he hit 100% of his kicks, and he’ll go make thenextbunch in arow for us. Not aconcern.”

Galiano said he approached Grupe right afterthe miss and asked what happened. When Grupe explainedit, Galianosaid he told him, “Do me afavor:Don’t do that again.”

“He’shad amiss two weeks in a row,right? The world’snot coming to an end,” Galiano said. “He had one miss in all of training camp, so it averages out. Ihave full confidence that he’sgoing to go out this game and every time he’sput on the field he’sgoing to go make his kick.”

Breesadmires Rattler

Spencer Rattler hasone very important admirer

Making an appearance on WWLAM Thursday evening with Bobby Hebert,New Orleans Saints legend Drew Brees said he really likes what he’sseen out of Rattler thisseason.

“Spencerisareallydynamic player,” Brees said. “Stature wise, he’salot like me from the perspective of you’re not the tallestguy, but you’re athletic, you can move. Ilove the way he throwsthe ball

GRANDERSON

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Theplays aren’tnecessarilythe result of near-perfect technique or Granderson overwhelming his man with pure brute strength. But they don’thave to be.Granderson just has to get the job done.

“That’sthe key,just to play fast andplaytogether,” Granderson said.

“A lot of my sacks came from effort and not giving up on the play

If it wasn’tfor my teammates and the whole D-line playing together, it wouldn’thave been able to happen for me.

“I’m just going to keep my foot on the gas and keep going.” Granderson has been here before. Not as the NFL’s sackleader, butthe 28-year-oldhas started strong in each of the last three seasons. Granderson recorded 21/2 sacks after the first two weeks of the 2023 and 2024 campaigns

But Granderson didn’talways keep his foot on the gas. Last year, despite playing all 17 games, he finished with only 51/2 sacks. The year beforethat, Grandersonhad 81/2 —a respectable number,but he cooled off in the middle of the season before heating up again in December Players andcoaches liketosay sacks come in bunches, so perhaps Granderson’sdips are anatural partoffootball. But 59 players surpassed Granderson’ssack total last year.Thirty-two did so in 2023. How does Granderson make the jump from good to great?

SanFrancisco 49erscornerback Siran Neal reacts after NewOrleans

He’s made some plays running thefootball that have been really impressive over the last couple of weeks, getting some key first downs, breaking tackles.

“Justsomegutsyperformances. It hasn’tresulted in wins,but we’vebeen rightthere.”

Rattler earned the Saints starting quarterback jobout of training camp, beating out secondround pick Tyler Shough

He is one of eight quarterbacks who have starteda game for the Saints since Brees retired after the 2020 season Afifth-round pick in last year’s draft,Rattler isstill looking to lead theSaints to his first win as astarting quarterback. New Orleanswent0-6 with him as a starter last season, albeit with an extremely depletedroster, andis off to an 0-2 start this season.

Brees stressed to be patient with the young quarterback, emphasizingthe competitiveness theSaints have shown to start the season New Orleanshas hadchances to tie or take the lead in theclosing minutes of each of their two losses.

“They’re right there, Imean lit-

erally right on the cusp,” Brees said. “They just have to find away to break theseal,get that first win, start developing someconfidence and momentum.”

Rattleriscompleting 65% of his passes withthree touchdowns against zero interceptions this season. As arunner,he’sadded 43 yards on eight carries.

“WhenIwatch Spencer play, he’sgot all the traits,” Brees said. “He’sgot some moxie, he plays with some swagger,kind of achip on his shoulder. The guys seem to like him and play hardaround him. He can make all the throws, he canmakeplays with hislegs, he’snot afraid to take off and run and lower his head to go getthe first down.

“For all those reasons, Ithink we have to be patient withhim and recognizethat,man,it’sgoing to happen, and hopefully it happens soon.”

Game-timedecisions

The NewOrleansSaintswill have severalplayers whowill be game-time decisions for Sunday’sgame against the Seattle Seahawks.

The Saints listed four players Fridayasquestionable:tackle Taliese Fuaga (knee/back), guard Trevor Penning (toe), and wide receivers Trey Palmer (hamstring) and Devaughn Vele (hip). The team also ruled out defensiveend Chase Young (calf) and guard DillonRadunz (toe),the latter of whom did not make the road trip. Fuaga had yet to practice this week, butcoach KellenMoore left it open-ended about whether he would play.Penning is seeking to make hisseason debutafter missing the last five weekswith turf toe.

If Fuaga can’tgo, then AsimRichards is expected to start at right tackle. The Saints acquired the offensive lineman on cut-down day in atrade with the Dallas Cowboys.IfPenningissidelined, the Saints likely will start Torricelli Simpkins,who madethe roster as an undrafted free agent after displaying theflexibility to play center and guard Young will miss histhird straight game.

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Cardinalson Sept.7 in the Caesars Superdome.

“For him, it’sjustgetting more andmore confident in his technique,” Staley said, adding the caveat that Granderson also has to stay healthy.“Gettingmore and more confident in the scheme.

Carl’swired the right way.”

Granderson believes the scheme can go along way toward helping him take that leap.The pass rusher said he likes how fast the unit is playing. In Staley’sdefense,Granderson has generated aquarterback pres-

sure rate of 14.3%, which wouldbe acareer high. To play fast, Granderson also slimmed down. Afterplaying between280-285pounds last year,he lost 10-15 pounds. He worked with anutritionist —“shoutout to chef Ash,” he said —who helped him cut down on carbs and emphasized lean meats andveggies.

Grandersonhas helped the Saints rank second in sacks this season, but New Orleans also wantsmorepressure on opposing

quarterbacks. According to Next GenStats, theSaintshave the fifth-fewestpressures (19) andthe third-lowest pressure rate (23.5%).

Thelack of disruption hascontributed to NewOrleans’ ineffectiveness on third down, with the Saints allowing a50% conversion rate.

But the Saints are optimistic that those numbers willimprove.

“He’sgot really goodburst,” coach Kellen Moore said, “but I thinkhis effort andfinishare really special.”

IN BRIEF FROM STAFFAND WIRE REPORTS

CommandersQBDaniels will miss game vs.Raiders WashingtonCommanders quarterback JaydenDaniels will sitout Sunday’sgame against the Las Vegas Raiders because of an injured left knee, the first start he’llmiss since entering the NFL last season. For athird consecutive day, Daniels wasunabletopracticefully on Friday

He was not on thefieldwiththe rest of theteamduringthe portion of the workout open to the media, and the Commanders officially listed him as “limited.”

Marcus Mariota will replace Daniels in the lineup and makehis first start since 2022 with the Atlanta Falcons. Mariota, the No. 2overall pick in the 2015 draftafter winning the Heisman Trophy at Oregon, came in during three games in relief of Daniels last season.

Heat GHerro has ankle surgery, to miss campstart

All-Star guard Tyler Herro underwent surgery Friday to repair an issueaffecting hisleft ankle and foot, meaning the Miami Heat will be without their leading returning scorer when training camp starts later this month.

The 90-minute procedure to alleviateposteriorimpingementsyndrome in the ankle wasperformed by Dr.Thomas San Giovanni, assistedbyHeat team physicians in Miami.

Herro is expected to be outfor eight weeks, though amore exact return-to-play plan likely won’t be finalized until he begins rehabilitation and gets through the surgery The issue had been bothering Herro throughout offseason training andevidently worsenedinrecent weeks.

Astros activate Paredes, put Alvarez on injuredlist

The Houston Astrosactivated infielder Isaac Paredes off the injuredlist andplaced left fielder Yordan Alvarez on the10-day injured list prior to their series opener against the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.

Paredes sufferedaright hamstring strain in Seattle on July 19 while running to first base on a single. He began running, doing fielding work and hitting at the beginning of September

Paredes was hitting .259 with 19 home runs and50RBIs thisseason before the injury Alvarez, who was placed on the injured list retroactive to Tuesday,suffered aleft ankle sprain after scoring in thefirst inning of agameMonday night against the Rangers.

Italy defeatsUkraine at Billie Jean King Cup semis

Defending champion Italy reached the Billie Jean King Cup final forathird straight year after coming from behind to beat Ukraine 2-1 in the semifinals on Friday French Open champions Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini won the deciding doubles against Marta Kostyuk and Lyudmyla Kichenok 6-2, 6-3. In the second set, Kostyuk and Kichenok led3-1 and had a point for4-2 but double-faulted. It wasthe second point earned by Paolini, who wasaset and 4-2 downtoElina Svitolina but recovered to win 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the second singles. Kostyuk gave Ukraine astrong start by beating Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-2, 6-3. Ukraine was playing in the semifinals forthe first time.

Football player at Miss. college dies after game

AMississippi community college football player died from medical complications after afootball game, according to astatement released by Mississippi Delta Community College on Friday EmanuellCooks of Elba, Alabama, was afreshman offensive lineman, according to his profile on MDCC’swebsite.

Cooks died after playing agame against Hinds Community College in Raymond on Thursday.The college’s statementdoesnot specify Cooks’ cause of death.

“Our entire Trojan family is devastated by this loss,” MDCC President Steven Jones said in apress release. “Wewill come together as acommunity to support one another through this tragedy.” Thecollegeisoffering support services to students and staff.

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Tulane,Memphis look forupsets

BY GUERRYSMITH

Contributing writer

Tulane’swin against Duke was yet another indication of the strengthofthe American Conference,whichhas pulled away considerably from the other Group of Fiveleagues.

Four American teams remain undefeated (Tulane, Memphis, Navy, North Texas) while the Sun Belt, Mountain West, Mid-American and Conference USAcombine for only one (UNLV).

South Florida’sattention-grabbing start came crashing down at Miami last weekend, but Tulane andMemphis have achance to make big statements as underdogs againstSEC opponents on Saturdaywhenthe GreenWave plays at OleMiss andthe Tigers host Arkansas.

1. Tulane Record: 3-0, 0-0 American

Previous rank: 2

Last week: defeated Duke 34-27

This week: at OleMiss, 2:30 p.m.

Saturday(ESPN)

Extrapoints: If not for adropped interception by national co-leader in pickoffs JavionWhitewhen Tulane led Duke 24-3, the final score probably would have been closer to 41-17. TheWave, which has beaten two Power Four schools without even playing well for all fourquarters, has not reached its ceiling.

2. Memphis Record: 3-0, 0-0 American Previous rank: 4

Last week: defeated Troy 28-7

This week: vs.Arkansas, 11 a.m.

Saturday(ABC)

Extrapoints: TheTigershandled Troy much more easily on the road than Clemson did at home and are tied with Ohio State and Illinoisfor the nation’slongest activewinning streak at seven. Theyare aliveunderdog against Arkansas. Several metrics rate them thebest-performing Group of Fiveteam so far.

3. SouthFlorida

Record: 2-1, 0-0 American

Previous rank: 1

Last week:lost to Miami 49-12

This week: vs. South Carolina State,11a.m. Saturday (ESPN+)

Extrapoints: TheBulls geta much deserved breather after their opening gauntlet of Boise State, Florida and Miami. It was too much to ask for them to win them all, but the way the Hurricanes manhandledthem may explain why they wereonly the consensus fifth-place choice in theAmerican.

4. Navy Record: 3-0, 2-0 American

Previous rank: 3

Last week: defeated Tulsa 42-23

This week: off

Extrapoints: Service academies are dangerous when they have elite quarterbacks, and Blake Horvathfits thatdescription. He rushed for 159 yards on 21 carries andthrew forthe go-ahead touchdownwith 10 seconds left in the first halfbeforethe Midshipmen dominated the second half for the second straight conference game.

should

Retzlaff will step on the field with supreme confidence after rushing for four touchdowns against Duke.But the Tulane defense, which has been really good for stretches, needs to playatpeak levelfor all fourquarters Even with backup quarterback Trinidad Chambliss at the helm, the Rebels figure to have toomuch firepower.

Guerry Smith

5. NorthTexas

Record: 3-0, 0-0 American

Previous rank: 7

Last week: defeated Washington State 59-10

This week: at Army,11a.m. Saturday (CBS Sports Network)

Extra points: Redshirt freshman

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Memphisin2021.

“Ole Miss has talent all over the field,” Sumrall said. “We’ve got to play the bestwe’veplayedall year to have achance to win. It’s daunting when youlook at thetape and see the athletes and all the things they do that stress you.”

It should notbea stress-freeday forOle Miss, either.Wavequarterback Jake Retzlaffhas runfor morethan 100 yards in two of the first three games, andthe Rebels allowed 115 yards rushing to Arkansas quarterback TaylenGreen last Saturday.Retzlaff alsohad his most efficient passing day against Duke, completing 15 of 23 for 245 yards.

After two quiet games to start the year,wideout Shazz Preston caught threepasses for 95 yards, including aseason-long 63-yarder

Drew Mestemaker,the latest in alongline of productivequarterbacks for coach Eric Morris, never started in high school. Through four starts dating to the Mean Green’s2024 bowl game, he has completed 68.6% of his passes for 1,226 yards and 11 TDs with two interceptions.

6. Army

Record: 1-1, 0-0 American

Previous rank: 5

Last week: off

This week: vs. North Texas, 11 a.m. Saturday (CBS SportsNetwork)

Extrapoints: The conference opener with North Texas will be telling forboth teams. Is Army closer to theteam that won at Kansas State or the one that lost at home to Tarleton State? Can North Texas get the ball away from ateam that controlleditfor 40:29 lasttime out?

7. East Carolina

Record: 2-1, 0-0 American

Previous rank: 6

Last week: defeated Coastal Carolina 38-0

This week: vs.BYU, 6:30 p.m. Saturday (ESPN2)

Extrapoints: Afternearlyknockingoff North CarolinaState in their opener,the Pirates will try to take down BYU at home. They outscored Campbell and Coastal Carolina 94-3 the past two weeks while seniorKatin Houser threw for 607 yards and four TDs.

8. Texas-SanAntonio

American

Record: 1-2, 0-0

Previous rank: 8

Last week: defeated Incarnate Word 48-20

This week: at Colorado State, 8:30 p.m. Saturday (FS1)

Extrapoints: How crazy is this?

UTSA’s Robert Henry,the leading rusher in the FBS, had a75-yard touchdown on the first second-half play againstTexas A&M, a75-

Preston, aprimorecruit who signed withAlabama but did not catch apass there in two years, is lookingforward to getting his first real crack at an SEC team.

“It’s alittlemotivation forme because Icame from the SEC and didn’t getthe opportunity Iwanted,” he said. “I guess I’ll put the fuel to the fire. It’sa great statementgame for us just to put our name out there and play to our best ability.”

Retzlaff, who faced four ranked teams while helping BYU finish 11-2 lastseason, will not be intimidated by theenvironment.Center Jack Hollifield feels the same way after spending three years at Virginia Tech from 2021-23.

“I love big games and bigatmospheres,” he said. “We(Virginia Tech) weren’tgood all thetime, but the atmosphere is awesome. Youwant to shut up thatbig crowd noiseand make big plays andscore touchdowns.When theaway team

yard scoreonthe secondsecondhalf play against Texas State and a74-yard TD on the third secondhalf play against Incarnate Word.

9. Rice

Previous rank: 10

Record: 3-1, 1-0

American

Last week: defeated Prairie View 38-17

This week: defeated Charlotte 2817 on Thursday

Extrapoints: Apath to six wins and bowl eligibility is possible forthe Owls, who still have home games againstFlorida Atlantic,Connecticut andUAB. Option-oriented new coach Scott Abell has them 3-1 for thefirst timesince 2001. They ran for 255 yards at Charlotte.

10.UAB

Record:2-1, 0-1 American

Previous rank: 9

Last week: defeated Akron 31-28

Thisweek: at Tennessee, 11:45 a.m Saturday (SEC Network)

Extrapoints: Unlike Tulane and Memphis, the Blazers have no shot to upset their SEC opponent. They barely held off Akron, which had been outscored 78-0in its first two games andhas gone sixyears without winning more than three games.The UAB defense ranks 129th outof134 FBS teams

11.Temple

Record: 2-1, 0-0 American

Previous rank: 11

Last week: lost to Oklahoma42-3

Thisweek: at Georgia Tech 3:30 p.m. Saturday (The CW Network)

Extrapoints: Outgained 515-105 in arare homeopportunity against ablue-blood program, it cannot get anyworsefor theOwls. Then again, it won’tget much better

cameand did thatatTech,theytotally took away our crowd.”

Sumrall prepared the Wave for what it will experience by piping in crowd noise for Tuesday’spracticeatanincredibly high decibel —likely enough to irritate the easily disturbed neighbors around Yulman Stadium

“I was telling somebody today, there’s no way it’sgoing to be thatloud (inOxford),” Hollifield said. “I’vehad alot of practices withcrowd noise going before away games, but I’ve never had anything that loud. It’s only going to help us. If it is that loud there, we’ve worked on it.”

The Wave also is working on finishing stronger. South Alabama andDuke scored two late touchdowns to make the final score much closer than it needed to be in the past two weeks. Tulane managed only three points in the second half of its 23-3 winagainst Northwestern.

againstGeorgia Tech,whichwon at Clemson last week. That is a rough two-game stretch fora struggling program

12.Tulsa

Record:1-2, 0-1 American

Previous rank: 13

Last week: lost to Navy 42-23

This week: at OklahomaState, Friday (n)

Extrapoints: Tulsa hung with Navy for ahalf in its conference opener before faltering, allowing a whopping 367 yards rushing. The Americanschedule-makersdid not do the Golden Hurricane any favors. After Friday night’strip to Oklahoma State, it hosts preseason favorite Tulane.

13.Florida Atlantic

American

Record: 1-2, 0-0

Previous rank: 12

Last week: Lost to Florida International 38-28

This week: off

Extrapoints: Western Kentucky transferquarterback Caden Veltkampwas supposed to be the linchpin for apossible turnaround, but he has been part of the problem instead. His three interceptions helped seal the Owls’ fate as they lost the Shula Bowl to their nearby rivals for the first timesince 2016.

14.Charlotte

Record: 1-3, 0-1 American Previous rank: 14

Last week: defeated Monmouth 42-35

This week: lost to Rice 28-17 on Thursday

Extrapoints: Thestruggling49ers guaranteed they wouldnot go winless by scoring atiebreaking touchdown with 1:30 left against Monmouth of the FCS. They will be significant underdogs in every gamebut one the rest of theway —ahome date with Temple on Oct. 18.

Athree-quartereffortwill not be good enough against Ole Miss, apoint Sumrall drove homeearly during the Tuesday practice.

“I let themknow if this is how we are going to roll, we are going to get our(butt) beat,” he said.“We have to be dialed in.The thing Ifear is complacency and everybody telling our players how good we are. We beat ateam last week by seven points and the week before thatwe beat ateam by twopoints andthe week before that we scored afield goal in thesecond half. Wow. So good. We better wake up.” He liked what he saw the rest of the week. Nowitisamatter of translating thatperformanceto the field. “It’sa real big opportunity againstarankedteam fromone of the biggest conferences in college football,” nickelback TJ Smith said. “Weneed to step forward and put agood image out there forTulane.”

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Raid ‘n’roll

Rummel capitalizes on Shaw miscuesin Megaphone win

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE Staff writer

As starts go, Rummelcould not have asked forabetter one than whatitgot againstShaw

First, the Shaw punter was ruled down when he droppedtoone knee to pick up alow snap, andRummel scored atouchdown on the next play when junior Coryan Hawkins ran7 yards to the end zone.

Next, aShaw fumble near midfield preceded athree-play drive that ended with a14-yard swing pass to Hawkins for another touchdown.

The Rummel offense didnot reachthe endzone again but won with ease in a29-0 victory Friday at Joe Zimmerman Stadiumasthe Raiders returnedhomewiththe Megaphone for the second year in arow Hawkins and junior Jaden Terrance combined for more than200 yards from scrimmage, sophomore Kingsley Barconey returned an interception for atouchdown in the fourth quarter and senior Robert Montalvo Vargas kicked three field goals in the nondistrict win

Next for Rummel (2-1) will be the start of District 9-5A play against JohnCurtis.

“It’s good for thesenior class,” Rummel coachNickMonica said about retaining theMegaphone for another year.“Youdon’twant to graduatewithout thething in your possession, so it’salways good for the seniorstoget another shotat it.”

The 13-0 lead with just under 6minutes remaining in the first quarter let Rummel keep control until the end.

Additional red-zone drives for Rummel were beset by penalties —afalse start on third-and-goal from the 1and aholding callon third-and-3 from the 9—asVargaskicked apair of field goals for a19-0 lead before halftime.

The Rummel defense and special teamschallengedShaw from start to finish.

Shaw (1-2)advanced beyond midfield onlytwice in the first three quarters, andthe first drive of the second halfbegan at the 1 afterjunior Joseph Carapina’s 52yard punt bounced outofbounds justbefore itreached the front right end-zonepylon.

“All Rummel tonight,” Shaw coach Hank Tierney said. “We couldn’t do nothingoffensively The defense probably deserved abetter fate. But if you can’trun

theball and runthe clock and you don’trest your defense, this is what happens.”

Rummelput extra focusonlimiting Shaw’sspread-option offense as defensive end Jacoby Dunn and linebacker Carlin Kinchen made multiple stops at theline andin thebackfield.

The first two Rummel takeaways on defensecame when seniorChris Parker recovered the fumble that set up the TD thatgave Rummel a13-0lead andonthe final play of thehalf when Rummel freshman Luther Loyell intercepted along pass to theend zone.

Loyell picked off another pass to the end zone on the final play of the game.

“The main goal this week was to stay disciplined, knowwhat we were doing, and Ifeel like our defense did agood job of that,” Parker said.

On offense, Hawkins ran 16 times for 88 yards and scored two touchdowns —one rushing and one receiving —asTerrance rushed 13 times for 103 yards. JuniorTyler Holden threw thetouchdown pass.

For Shaw, senior Deandree Franklin ran 12 times for 67 yards.

Shaw, which lost in Week 1 against EdnaKarr, will play next week at homeagainst Lafayette Christian, theschoolthatbeat Rummel by one point in Week 1.

St.Paul’s second-quarter surge topplesDeLaSalle

BY JOSEPH HALM Staff writer

The St. Paul’sdefense forced three turnovers while the offense came up with several big plays in thesecondquarter to grindout a 24-7 nondistrict win over De La Salle at Hunter Stadium on Friday “I thought we played pretty good forthe first two quarters, butwe have to put together acomplete game,” St. Paul’scoach Kenny Sears said. “Wehad aturnoverand missed afield goal in the second half, and all of those thingsadd up Ithought our defensive effort was outstanding. We just have to put it all together.”

The game seemingly wasdecidedinthe final moments of the first half. De La Salle had just cut the St. Paul’slead to three points midway through the second quarter,but the Wolves (2-1)benefited from some big plays on offense to flip the score and builda24-7 halftime lead. The offensive fireworks started with a32-yard Cody Coralesrun as the Wolves opened adrive at the 27-yard line. Then, BradyPierson connected with Daniel Harty for a 23-yard reception. That play set up

Pierson’ssecond1-yard TD run to push the lead back to 10 points.

Then camethe most electric play of the game.After forcing a punt, the Wolves took control of thegame with one play.Pierson connected with Brennan Villa for an 87-yard TD catch-and-run. The play pushed thelead to 24-7 as it tookjust two minutes to turn a tight margin into acomfortable lead.

“It was all aboutexecuting,”said Corales,who finished with 115 yards on 15carries. “Wejust have to stay focusedthe wholegame. We can’t takeany plays off. De La Salle is agood team. Ifelt like they game-planned pretty well, so it felt great to get awin. We’ve been close thelast two years, so tonight was good.”

The Wolves defense was very opportunistic throughout, especially in the second half, as Christian Martin picked offapass and Hunter Marchand recovered afumble. Both of those turnovers ended drives inSt. Paul’sterritory.The other takeawaywas aJacob April fumble recovery in thefirst half.

“Thisdefense is tough,” St. Paul’s senior defensive linemanGage Brown said. We know we arego-

Holy Crossrides Smith’s 3scorestorivalry win

BY ANDREW VALENTI Contributing writer

Chalmette wonlastyear’srivalry game against Holy Cross to snapasix-gameseries losing streak

But the Tigers were able to pull away Fridayafter along touchdown run by Ke’Rynn Smith in the fourth quartertogive them a23-6 win against the Owls in a nondistrict game at TadGormley Stadium.

Holy Cross (3-0) led Chalmette (1-2) 17-6midway through the finalframe.The Owls droveinto Tigers’ territory when Breez Wilson threw an interception to Brandon Green at the 9-yard line on fourth down. Smith then brokemultiple tackles in the backfield on the first playfrom scrimmageand raced 91 yards for the touchdown to put the Tigers ahead 23-6with 5:18 left in the game. The senior running back, who hasoffers from multiple Power Four programs, ran for 193 yardsand threescores on 26 carries.

His other touchdown runs came from 6yards earlier in the fourth quarter and 7yards in the first quarter

“I was seeing green on that last touchdown run,” Smith said. “I knew it wascrunchtime and needed ascore to close the game out.Ijusthad to makethe best of what Ihad open and did what Ihad to do.”

Holy Cross has three wins in thefirst threeweeksofthe season after winning only three games alloflast year

“Wehad to go 3-0,”Holy Cross

coach Scott Wattigny said. “That was imperative forus, and we did just that. Icouldn’tbemore proud of our guys and staff. We deserve this, and it’salways good to beat arival.”

Chalmette inched within 10-6 after Wilson found Dana Antoine on an 8-yard slantpasswith13 seconds left in the third quarter

The junior signal-caller threw for69yards and ran for48yards in the game. But that was all the Owls could get going on offense, as the Tigers front seven harassed Wilsonand gave very littleroom for Chalmette’sbevy of running backs to find holes in the line. The Owls ran for75yards and gained 144 yards of total offense with six first downs. Holy Crossadded four sacks and recovered amuffed punt in additiontothe interception in the fourth quarter “Our defensive coordinatorhas done agreat job all year,” Wattigny said. “He puts our defensive guys into position to make them successful, andyou sawthatall night. Ithink theygot past the 50-yard line just once. Ithought we hadthemfromthe first snap.”

The Tigers added a37-yard field goal offthe foot of kicker Noel Mora to stake his team to a10-0 lead with 1:19 left before halftime.HolyCross quarterback Jokoby Farria —a transfer from St. Augustine —threw for 83 yards.

Holy Cross will start District 9-5A playnextweekwhenit plays Edna Karr at 2p.m.on Sept. 27. Chalmette will take on Booker T. Washington next Friday

Destrehanrally falls shortagainst Alexandria

BY SPENCER URQUHART Staff writer

Destrehan appeared on the cusp of acomeback victory after getting the ballback with less thanone minute in regulation against Alexandria. Destrehan senior quarterback Jackson Fields completed apair of passes that got the Wildcats into Alexandria territory,but the clock struck zero before Fields and the offense got acrack at the end zone. Alexandria hung on for a27-21 road win on Friday night at Destrehan.

Fields found Destrehan senior widereceiver Cai Williamsfor a 43-yard receiving touchdown to cut Alexandria’slead to six with 1:47 to go in the game. Destrehan gotthe ball back afterforcing a turnover on downs with 40 seconds left but ultimatelyran out of time.

“Very disappointing loss,” Destrehan coach Marcus Scott said. “Mainly because alot of it was self-inflicted. Give ASH alot of credit. They didexactlywhat they were supposed to do, and a lot of it fell on us. Penalties,way too many.You can’t beat aquality program when you commit penalties.”

Destrehan committed12penalties foratotal of 93 yards. Alexandria also had 10 penalties for 85 yards.

Destrehan running back MalachiDabneyfinishedwith 198 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 25 carries. Dabney’s first trip to the end zone occurred in thefirst quarter to give the Wildcats an early 7-0 lead.

Dabney’ssecondtouchdown from8yards occurred in the fourth quarterwhen Destrehan was trailing by 14 and cut the lead to seven. Alexandria running back Kason Williams caught a16-yard touchdownfrom Karson Sellers to put the Trojans up by 13.

Williamswas Alexandria’slead rusher with116 yards and finishedwithall four touchdowns. Hisother three touchdowns occurred on the ground. Fields completed18of28 passes for193 yards and atouchdown. JabariMack was Destrehan’slead receiver,finishing with eight catches for71yards.

Destrehan(1-2) begins district play next Friday on the road against East St. John. Alexandria (3-0) will be at homeonFriday in Week 4against Opelousas.

ing to pushthrough. It’s all about playing together.When we’re locked in and everyone knows what is happening, we play well. When we messup, it’s because someone is getting confused. We just have to get afteritonevery play.”

For De La Salle (0-3), it was the end of its Class 5A gauntlet that included Central-Baton Rouge and Holy Cross. Now,the Cavaliers will travel to St. Charles Catholic and Shaw over the next twoweeks.

Junior running back Eamon Williams ledthe team with 110 yards on 23 carries, including an 11-yard touchdown run in thesecond quarter.The Cavaliersmoved the ball at times but struggled to finish drives,especially in the second half.

“We’restill trying to find ourway offensively,” De La Salle coach Graham Jarrottsaid. “I thought we ran the ball well in spurts, but we didn’tblock allthatwell. St Paul’sisa really good team, and theycame out and played agreat game.”

Defensively,Brendan Guidroz had asecond-half interception whileMarkCaliste recovered a fumble on theopening drive.

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On the run

PHOTO By CHRIS PARENT

Kennedyquarterback Dunham Dorrian runs past aSt. Amant defender on Friday nightin St. Amant. St. Amant won28-12.

PREP REPORT

Ponchatoula 28 Edna Karr 63, McDonogh 35 0 Lakeshore28, Northshore13 Riverside 40, Prairieville 23 Rummel 29, Shaw0 Salmen 42, Bogalusa 6 Warren Easton 50, Slidell 35 Belle Chasse 56, South Plaquemines 0 St. Charles 27, Dunham 21 Thomas Jefferson 48, Centerville 28 North Iberville 20, Ben Franklin 14 Statewide Zachary 34, Carencro20 Catholic High 28, University 14 Central 48, Walker 37 Denham Springs 33, Woodlawn 0 Dutchtown 62, Collegiate BR 0 East Ascension 25, Sam Houston 14 LiveOak 55, Ponchatoula 28 Scotlandville 35, McKinley 0 Southside 35, Madison Prep 22 St. Amant28, John F. Kennedy 12 Terrebonne 28, St. James 8 Catholic High Pointe Coupee 36, Hannan 35 Iowa 42, Parkview Baptist 13 St. Michael 16, Istrouma 14 St. Charles Catholic 27, Dunham 21 St. John36, Haynes Academy34 Ascension Catholic 43, St. Thomas Aquinas7 Saturday Baker vs.Jefferson Rise at Yenni, 2p.m. Fisher vs.Walter L. Cohen at Pan American,2 p.m. Kenner Discovery vs.Higgins at Memtsas, 2p.m Legacy (Texas) vs.St. Augustineat Gormley Willowvs. East Jefferson at Yenni Opendates: JohnCurtis, Newman, NorthlakeChristian, Pearl River and Sophie B. Wright

Rummel 29, Shaw0 TeamRummelShaw First Downs 12 9

YardsRushing 29-191 38-165

YardsPassing 56 17 Passes(C-A-HI) 6-11-0 2-10-3

Punts-avg.3-46 5-31

Fumbles-lost 0-0 1-1

Penalties-yards5-35 6-38

SCORING SUMMARY Rummel136010—29 Shaw0000—0

RUM: Coryan Hawkins 7run (kick failed)

RUM: Hawkins 14 pass from Tyler Holden (RobertMontalvo Vargas kick)

RUM: Vargas 20 field goal RUM: Vargas 27 field goal RUM: Vargas 26 field goal RUM: Kinsley Barconey 30 interception return(Vargas kick) Holy Cross 23, Chalmette 6 TeamCHSHCHS First Downs 611

YardsRushing 29-75 34-225 YardsPassing 69 83 Passes(C-A-HI) 8-18-1 14-21-0

Punts-avg.6-33.0 5-42.0

Fumbles-lost 1-1 0-0

Penalties-yards3-15 11-105

SCORING SUMMARY Chalmette0060—6

Holy Cross7376—23

HC: Ke’Rynn Smith 7run (Noel Morakick)

HC: Mora37kick CHS: Dana Antoine 8pass from Breez Wilson (kickmissed)

HC: Smith 6run (Morakick)

HC: Smith 91 run(kick missed)

St.Martin’sabletofendoff

PatrickTaylorinshootout

Saints halt late two-pointtry in 42-41victory St.

BY SPENCER URQUHART Staff writer

St. Martin’swas looking for its first win of theseason on Thursdaynight against Patrick Taylor,and the two ended up in athrilling backand-forth contest that was decided in the closing seconds.

Both St. Martin’sand Patrick Taylor scored more than 40 points. Patrick Taylor drove86yardsfor atouchdown with one second leftin regulation and decided to go forthe win with atwo-point conversion attempt, but the runfailed andresulted in a42-41 St. Martin’s winat Hoss Memtsas Stadium.

St. Martin’sstruggledto contain PatrickTaylor’s running game butwas able to stop the final two-point attempttosecure their first win after afaultypitch resulted in aloss of yardage for Patrick Taylor

“Itwas awild game,” St Martin’scoach Kevin Dizer said. “I’m just proud of our kids for playing hard. We needed awin.Hatsoff to Patrick Taylor.Wejust didn’ttackle well, andthey took advantageofit. We’ve still got alot of worktodo, but it feels better when you get to learnafter awin.”

Patrick Taylor’s86-yard scoring drive in theclosing minutes was cappedbya 1-yard runbyLogan Rogers, who finished with ateam-high 212 yards rushing on 24 carries. The Tigers came up one

“It wasa wildgame. I’mjust proud of our kids for playing hard. We needed awin.”

KEVIN DIZER St. Martin’scoach

point shortdespitefinishing with over 400 yards rushing. “Wehad the momentum,” Patrick Taylor coach Kenny Bourgeoissaid. “Wewere running theballreally well, so Ifigured let’sjust winthe game rightnow.Our defense needed alittle help, so that’s why we went for it, to try and end it right there.”

St. Martin’stook asevenpointleadwith3:35togoin the game after senior quarterback Donny Lawrence found TylerPenny in the end zone fora37-yard contested touchdown catch on fourth down.

ABrother Martin transfer Lawrence is in his first seasonstartingatSt. Martin’s after sitting outhis junior season. He completed 10 of 15 passes for 144 yards and twotouchdowns while adding 62 yards rushing andtwo moreTDs on 10 carries.

“Wefought hard tonight,” Lawrence said. “Originally (thelast touchdown pass) was supposedtobea much shorter route, but Isaw (Penny) and had to give him achance.”

Lawrence’stop target was senior running back NoahDunn, who finished with ateam-high 67 yards receiving anda touchdown on three catches. Dunn was also St. Martin’slead rusher with 129 yards rushing and twoTDs on 19 carries.

St. Martin’swas tasked with replacing five-star running back Harlem Berry, now afreshman at LSU, and the seniorDunn hada strong showing on Thursday

“Obviously Harlemwas amazing,” Dunn said. “Got some big shoes to fill, but I think I’m on agood track. I feel like our attitude going intotonight wasgreat and led to agreat win.” Rogers, ajunior,scored four of Patrick Taylor’ssix touchdowns. JeremyGibson, also ajunior,scored the other two and recorded 136 yards rushing on 11 carries with along of 46 that resulted in atouchdown.

St. Martin’s(1-2) will look to string together back-toback wins Friday at home against McMain. Patrick Taylor (1-2) will be visit Kenner Discovery Email Spencer Urquhart at surquhart@theadvocate.com.

Skenes:Pirates’seasonwill be wasted if lessonsaren’tlearned

BY WILL GRAVES AP sportswriter

PITTSBURGH PaulSkenes

is not thinking about the Cy Young speech he’lllikelybe asked to make the weekbefore Thanksgiving. The Pittsburgh Pirates ace isn’tthinking about the elite company he’skept through his first two big league seasons either The 23-year-old from LSU doesn’tpitch to winawards but games. And neither Skenes —though largely through no fault of his own —nor his team have done enough of that to avoid another last-place finish in the NL Central.

So no matter how much Skenes believes he’sgrown professionally during his first full season in the majors —and he’sanear locktobecome the first player in four decades to win the Rookie of the Year one year and the Cy Young the next —he’smore concerned about how the Pirates respond over the winter “This is awasted yearif we don’tlearnwhat we need to do and we don’tknow why we didn’tgoout there and do what we wanted to do,” Skenes said Friday.“If those things happen, then it’sa wasted year,inmyopinion. I don’tthink that’shappening. Ithink —individually,asa team and as an organization —weknow the adjustments we need to make. Now we’ve just got to do them.”

Aseason that began with the club hoping to return to contention for the first time in adecade quickly disintegrated during anightmarish 12-26start that ledtomanager Derek Shelton’sfiring. While Don Kelly steadied things afterreplacing Sheltonand Skenes hasbeen the most dominant pitcher in the game, Pittsburgh entered its final home series against the Athletics thisweekend having dropped 11 of 12 to assure the franchise of its 29th losing season since 1992.

The worst offenseinthe majors —Pittsburgh is last or near lastinevery major offensive category,from runs to home runs to OPS —has also put Skenes on the cusp of making some unwanted history.Despite an MLB-leading 2.03 ERA to go with 209strikeouts and a .199 batting average against, Skenes holdsjusta10-10 record heading into what will likely be his final startofthe seasonearly next week in Cincinnati.

No starting pitcher has ever captured the Cy Young with arecord of .500 or worse. Skenes is aheavy favoritetohear hisname called when theawardisannounced on Nov.20. By then, Skenes will already have begun his preparations for 2026. He’s hoping and expecting those around him to do the same.

“There’sroom to get better in this locker room,” he said.

“Wejust need to do it. I’m sure we’ll get some pieces anddoall that, butmymind rightnow is ‘Whatcan we do within thelocker room to getbetter,now and for next year?’There’surgency to it, andweneedtounderstand that andact on it.”

To Skenes, whose combination of talent, work ethicand charismahas already thrust him into aleadership role despitehavingbeeninthe

majors allof16months, that means being willingtochallenge yourselfinways you haven’tbefore.

“It’sgoing to take alot of guys taking alook in the mirror,figuring out what it is that they need to get better at, and making sacrifices to do that,” he said.

Kelly,who seems likely to stay on as manager for his hometown team in 2026, credited Skenes for being unafraid to have “tough conversations” despite hisrelative inexperience. Being willing to constantly walk thewalk helps.

“(It’s) just the waythat he leads himself first, and then carries himself that way, works like that, dominates on thefield, it gives himthat voice to be able to have those conversations with other people,” Kelly said.

Pittsburgh figures to have one of the betterrotations in baseball next year behind Skenes, Mitch Keller and 23-year-old Bubba Chandler. There is reason for optimism,but Skenes pointed out the team thoughtthe same thingatthe end of last season, and yethere the Pirates are playing out the string in late September once again. Pittsburgh’squickest path to contention may be parting with some of its young pitching talent if it wantsto

upgrade an offense that has been woeful regardlessof whoisstarting, evenSkenes, whohas an ERA of 1.74 in his 11 no-decisions. While Skenes allowed “the

book is outonhim” now, he’s found away to stay astep —and in some cases twoor three —ahead of most opponents.Hebelieves he’s a more complete pitcher than he was ayear ago, andhe credited the Pirates for helpinghim successfully navigate 31 starts and 181 2/3innings andcounting. Amid the losing, Skenes hastried to remainupbeat. He’s also been firm in his commitmenttothe team and the community.Hespenta portionofa rare Thursday offday by delivering meals to firefighters and first responders at astation in the suburbs, joking it was kind of abummerhedidn’tget to blare the horn on one of the trucks

Though he remains under team control for the rest of thedecade,general manager

Ben Cherington has faced questionsonwhether Skenes —who will likelycommand record-setting numbers once he becomes eligiblefor salary arbitrationshouldhestay on his currentpath—could oneday be traded. Theclubremainsfirm in its commitment to him, though there haven’tbeen any talks abouta possible extension, mostly becauseit’snot something Skeneswants to discuss during the season That may come up over the winter,though Skenes will be more focused on shoring up whatfew holeshemay have in his game,evenif he doesn’tknowwhatthey might be “I’ll figureitout,”hesaid. “I’ll figure outexactly what it is.I knowIcan getbetter Just got to figureout what it is.”

Pacific NW rivalries trudge on in new era

BY ANNE M. PETERSON AP sportswriter

There’s still nostalgia for the Pacific Northwest’s former Pac-12 rivalries, even if the realities of college football mean the gap between the teams involved is growing wider Washington visits Washington State in the 117th Apple Cup on Saturday and Oregon State visits Oregon in a rivalry that dates back to 1894.

The rivalries used to be the highlight of the year for many fans in both states, and the games were played on the last weekend of the season, adding to the tradition and drama. But realignment changed everything. NIL money and the transfer portal added to the divide between programs.

Oregon State coach Trent Bray pointed to some of those things ahead of the Beavers’ game Saturday against the No. 6 Ducks at Autzen Stadium, while saying it was still a growth opportunity for his players.

“The Oregon versus Oregon State (rivalry) for a player, yeah, it’s not what it used to be Conference alignment. Guys are moving from here to there, so that’s part

of it for the players. Now the fans are different,” Bray said. “But for the players, it’s a game against a top-level opponent, and that’s the exciting thing in an environment that’s going to be great.”

The Pac-12 began to fall apart in 2022 when USC and UCLA announced they were bolting for the Big Ten, with Washington and Oregon later following suit. After a final season in 2023, the Pac-12 essentially dissolved and the only

teams left in the once-proud Conference of Champions were Washington State and Oregon State.

The Beavers and the Cougars struck a temporary deal last season to play in the Mountain West. They are operating as independents this season and will play each other twice before the Pac-12 is revived next season with new members

Boise State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Utah State, Colorado State and Texas State. Gonzaga is also joining

the league as a non-football member

While the Apple Cup will continue for the foreseeable future, the rivalry game between Oregon and Oregon State won’t be played next year but could be revived in 2027.

Oregon coach Dan Lanning said despite the disparities, the rivalry still has meaning. “I think all of college football feels different the last few years, but this game still means a lot to us, for sure. It’s the opportunity to play a team in state, it’s just down the road A lot of fans grew up either Ducks or Beavs, right?” Lanning said. “So this game means a lot to a lot of people, and certainly means a lot to the people on our team.”

It’s been obvious that the demise of the Pac-12 has stung the two remaining members.

Both teams lost coaches and notable players to Power Four schools, and the programs have found it difficult to compete in terms of NIL opportunities.

Oregon State lost coach and former quarterback Jonathan Smith to Michigan State ahead of the 2024 season and promoted Bray another alum. But the Beavers have struggled. They’ve gone 0-3 this season and they’ve lost nine of 10 dating back to last season.

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Bray has remained outwardly optimistic.

“We’ve got good players,” he said. “I feel confident about our players and what they can do. And I feel confident in our coaches to get them ready to play and go out there and execute.”

Washington State fared well last year, going 8-5 and playing in the Holiday Bowl, but coach Jake Dickert left the Cougars for Wake Forest, taking a number of players with him. Quarterback John Mateer transferred to Oklahoma.

The Cougars hired Jimmy Rogers from FCS-level South Dakota State, where he led the undefeated Jackrabbits to a national title in 2023. At Washington State, he had 75 new players on the roster heading into this season.

While he’s been realistic about what he’s up against in rebuilding the program, he hasn’t used it as an excuse. Asked about the gap in resources as the Cougars prepared to face the Huskies, he wouldn’t bite.

“I’m not going to talk about the lack of resources, I’m just not that way,” Rogers said. “There are things that we don’t have that other schools have, I’ve been at that level. We have to execute.”

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it. We expect it from each other,” Chase said. “We’ve been pushing each other for so long.”

With Jefferson and Chase and a whole bunch of other future pros, LSU won the College Football Playoff national championship in the 2019 season The quarterback, of course, was Joe Burrow, who became the first overall pick in the 2020 draft by the Bengals. Jefferson went 22nd. Burrow just had toe surgery

and won’t get to catch up on the field this weekend with Jefferson, leaving Chase to lead the way for backup Jake Browning. Jefferson knows all about that type of turnover, with Carson Wentz stepping in this week after J.J. McCarthy sprained his ankle. Wentz will be the seventh different quarterback to start for the Vikings in the last 30 regular-season games. Those absences will make the Chase-Jefferson competition more than just a sideshow

“It’s always extra when you have a player like that that’s top in the league just as well as I am,” said Jefferson, who has just seven

catches for 125 yards through two games. “Of course that competitive aspect is there, but at the end of the day it’s about our team and it’s about winning. So as long as those two things are done, then I’m happy leaving that building.”

Left tackle Christian Darrisaw was listed as questionable by the Vikings for the game after being ruled out ahead of time last week, raising hope of his return from reconstructive knee surgery Both the team and the player have made clear in this case that the weekly decisions have been collaborative and not simply a matter of the coaching and medical staffs exer-

16-9) at Baltimore (Sugano 10-8), 6:05 p.m.

(Cecconi 6-6) at Minnesota (Ober 5-8), 6:10 p.m., 2nd game

Diego (Darvish 4-5) at Chicago White Sox (Gómez 3-2), 6:10 p.m. Seattle (Kirby 9-7) at Houston (Valdez 1210), 6:10 p.m. Toronto (Bieber 3-1) at Kansas City (Cameron 8-7), 6:10 p.m.

cising caution. Darrisaw’s unorthodox stance puts his legs lower to the turf, which he acknowledged on Friday might put more stress on his knee. He said he’s comfortable wearing a brace, but in the overall picture of his agility, confidence and strength he hasn’t been quite there yet to declare himself back Darrisaw said he feels like his status for the game on Sunday is truly a 50-50 situation. “I’ve just got to trust my body, really be smart with it. It’s early in the year When I’m ready, I know I’ll be ready, and I’ll be back out there,” he said.

Left tackle Justin Skule and center Ryan Kelly were both ruled out with concussions, though each player returned to practice Friday on a limited basis. If Darrisaw is again inactive, the Vikings would likely start either Blake Brandel or Walter Rouse with Bengals All-Pro defensive end Trey Hendrickson looming on the other side. The Vikings also

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Yesterday’s Puzzle Answer

Bridge

By PHILLIP ALDER

Kate Adie OBE, an Englishjournalist who was known forreporting from war zones forthe BBC, said, “IfI’m in danger, then it’s usually my fault and it’s up to me to get myself out of it. Iamnot in it just to get an adrenaline rush.”

At the bridge table, adrenaline rushes can make players rush, when they shouldbestopping to look for potential dangers.

In this deal, forexample, how should South plan the play in six spadesafter West leads theheart two? Also, how would you have bid with that North hand after partneropened twono-trump?

In this auction, Northtransferred into spades, thenbid the contract he hoped hispartnercouldmake.Amodernsuperscientist would have jumpedtofive diamonds over threespades,Exclusion Roman Key Card Blackwood. It would have asked South for keycards excluding the diamond ace. Many players would winthe first trick andimmediatelyplayatrump.However, East would win with his ace and return aheart for his partner to ruff and defeat thecontract.

Slightly unlucky, it is true. And many Souths would then ask their partners whytheyhad not bid six no-trump, which is impregnable. But these declarersshouldhavepausedforthoughtwhen

wuzzles

thedummycamedown.Especiallygiven that South can seeevery heart honor, theopening lead has all theauraofa singleton. To avoid going down, declarer should take the first trick in his hand and discard dummy’s remaining hearts on the diamond ace andking. Then it is safe to draw trumps.

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Puzzle Answer

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2178 NROCHEBLAVE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $624.09 SQ 1209 LOT ANROCHEBLAVE 16 X159 SGLE 6/RM A/R

14512-TILBURYRD BARGKY DAVID

16X82 5710-CANALBL BARRAS NOEL 5710 CANAL BLVD, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70124

SQ 395 LOTS 24 25 CANAL BLVD 25 X129 EA

8654-PONTCHARTRAINBL8

BARRE REAL ESTATELLC 8654 PONTCHARTRAIN BLVD, #8,NEW ORLEANS, LA

DUE IS: $7,076.94 SQ WE AREA A,P-2A PONTCHVAR XVAR PENINSULA

CONDO IMP ONLYLEVEE BD LAND UNIT 8

996-ROBERTELEEBL

BARRETT FRANK O 996 ROBERTE LEE BLVD, NEW

SQ 41 PT LOT 46 ORLEANS 10X145 LOTS

AND ORLEANS25X145 EA

523-ROBERTELEEBL

BARRETT FRANK O 523 ROBERTE LEE BLVD, NEW ORLEANS,

SQ 11 LOT 20 ALLEN TOUSSAINTBLVD71X115

5584-CATINAST

BARRETT FRANK O 5584 CATINA ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

LOT BCATINA 38X120

3PTS 13/14 OR B33X100 162/164 PELICAN AV 1813-SHIRLEYDR

NELLIE J 1813 SHIRLEY DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $1,370.99 ALBERNA PL SQ 13 LOT D45X 140 1813 SHIRLEYDR 5107-DEMONTLUZINST BENOIT CATHERINE LOCKETT 5107 DEMONTLUZIN ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $2,126.51 GENTILLYTERRACE SQ 72 LOTS 49 50 DE MONTLUZIN 25X120 EA SGLE/FR 7/RM GARAGE A/R

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YERGALEM 3014 GREENSPOINT DR, NEW ORLEANS,

3434-ROGERWILLIAMSST BEVAN GEORGE PJR 3434 ROGER WILLIAMSST, NEWORLEANS,

$3,760.53 DE SAIX PL SQ DLOT 13 ROGER

123 SGLE 6/RM A/R

1726-NROCHEBLAVEST BEZUEFRANK 1726 NROCHEBLAVE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119

$2,483.92 SQ 1197 PT LOT 16 NROCHEBLAVE 21

121 SGLE 7/RM A/R 1694-NCLAIBORNEAV BIAGAS THADDEUSM 1694 NCLAIBORNE AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS:

2235-DREUXAV BIBBINSCHARLES 2235 DREUXAVE, NEWORLEANS, LA

DUE

CONDO PLAN 9-14B-14 “E REC” 8721-PALMST

DEBRA A

PALM ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $1,660.28 SQ 574 LOT 1PALM 65 X150

2121-INDEPENDENCEST

BOYD LORRAINEETAL 2121 INDEPENDENCE ST,NEW ORLEANS,

SQ 1081 LOT FINDEPENDENCE31X95

1001-JULIASTPA22

BOYD RICHARD 1001 JULIA ST,#PA22, NEW ORLEANS, LA

SQ 274 JULIA ST,SRAMPARTSTAND

34.4/289.3X54.3-110.9/164.8

12230-MORRISONRD BOYKIN JEANENE 12230 MORRISON RD, NEW ORLEANS, LA

DBARRINGTON PARK EAST LOT 3MORRISON RD

9/RM A/R GARAGE

928-NRENDONST BOYKINSDEBORAH JOHNSON 928 NRENDON ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119

SQ 432 LOTS A6 NRENDON 32X153 7500-SPRINGLAKEDR BRADEN ELIZABETH P 7500 SPRINGLAKE DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA

SQ

3125-27 MILAN DU-W MA CHNGD 5/12/04 FILE #85150 1/03 INT DONT

4204-SDERBIGNYST BROADMOOR IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, INCOR

4204SDERBIGNY ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $5,741.94 SQ 695 LOT XSDERBIGNY 45/49 X60DUP-W 4204-06 SDERNIGNY FILE #94070 4/08 EXEMPT

7832-PLUMST BROADWAY STREET HOLDINGS LLC

7832PLUM ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $8,686.52 SQ 154 LOT 12 PLUM ST., 30’ X150’ 7832-34-34 1/2 PLUM STREET.RTA CONTRACT NO. 070967-0 EXPIRED:07/31/2012.

7200-SCLAIBORNEAV BROADWAY STREET HOLDINGS LLC

7200SCLAIBORNE AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $7,271.43 FRIBURG NERON PL SQ 50 TRIANGLE CLAIBORNE LOTX &A 124/100 X72/0 4-PLEX-STU FILE #75370 1/97

STREET HOLDINGS LLC

ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $11,794.90

NERON PL SQ 50 LOT 5BROADWAY38X120 2220-26 BROADWAY 4-PLEX/W MA CHNGD 8/9/01 FILE #69070 8/92

BROADWAY STREET HOLDINGS LLC

BROADWAY ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $7,012.12

SQ 43 LOT BBROADWAY 33X120 2025-27 BROADWAY DUP-W FILE #82207 5/01 3106-UPPERLINEST

STREET HOLDINGS LLC 3106 UPPERLINE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $6,047.11 SQ 709 LOT 20 PT 21 3106-08 UPPERLINE 50X120 DUP-WFILE

LOT 3ABENEFIT28X93 SGLE W/FR 6/RMS A/R

4771-MARIGNYST BROWN MONIQUETAYLOR 4771 MARIGNY ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

2522-CLOUETST BROWN PAULINE MANDY CKELLY 2522 CLOUET ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117

1394 LOT 9CLOUET 30X110 SGLE 10/RM A/R

LOT 6HAMILTON 44 X110 1809-SHORTST BRUMFIELD CHANETA 1809 SHORTST, NEW ORLEANS, LA

LOT 20 SHORT30X 107

1814-NROBERTSONST BRUMFIELD CLAUDE JR 1814 NROBERTSON ST,NEW ORLEANS,

SQ 621 LOT BN ROBERTSON

ROBERTSON ST 4112-EDENST BRUMFIELD EDRIN M 4112 EDEN ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA 70125

168 REAR LOT AHILO-W 42X30 **07NR**

4201-SCLAIBORNEAV BRUMFIELD EDWARD

WEST AURORA SQ 4LOT 20 66 X105

LAKELAND ACRESADD SQ 19 LOT 1SANDALWOOD & HAMMOND 66 OVER 65X104 SGLE/BR/V 6/RM A/R

BYRD BILLYW 5514 WILDAIRDR, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS: $1,416.59

GARDENS SQ 9LOT A- 8WILDAIR 50X100 DBLE W/FR 10/ RM C/R C/PORT

DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70128 TOTALDUE IS:

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WALES ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA 70128 TOTALDUE IS: $2,566.14

2SHANNON PARK SUB’D LOT 6WALES ST 51X101 BR/DBLE

BOATHOUSE #122 OUTER HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS

841-BOURBONST CAIRO FLORIS M 841 BOURBON

2616-ELDERST CALDWELL JONEL 2616 ELDER ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

$2,575.62 PONTCHARTRAIN SUB DIV

ADD/CH1/01 FILE #75329 1/96 WOP

1533-BROADWAYST CITIZEN PROPERTY III, LLC

1533 BROADWAY ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

FRIBURG SQ 22 LOT GBROADWAY AND BIRCH41X120 S-RAISED-2

STY-STU FILE #96313 11/09

2867-ABUNDANCEST CITY OF NEW ORLEANS 2867 ABUNDANCE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

5A GORDON PLAZA SUBD PHASE 1LOT 251X100 SGLE BR/V

PLAZA

CHRISTIAN CR THRU INDUSTRY& PRESS

39W745201 BR/SGLE 8/RM A/R &GARAGE

59-GORDONPLAZADR CITY

2100-STCHARLESAV3M CORDELL-REEH DANICA 2100 ST CHARLES AVE, #3M,

$5,524.36 SQ 210 LOT A16/12 8-B AND

3-M 15454

6701-BRUTUSST CORNIN EDNAD 6701 BRUTUSST, NEW ORLEANS, LA

ASSESSED 39W903501 2704-BURGUNDYST COSLETT ANTHONYR 2704 BURGUNDYST,

LOT 12 FATS DOMINO AND NGALVEZ 31 X130

GARAGE &STORE A/R

825-IDAST COURTNEY GUY C 825 IDA ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

735 LOTS 12SJOHNSON AND CADIZ 60X137 S-RAISED-W

ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $7,203.19

DAVIS JACKLEAN A 4743 KNIGHT DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA

CASTLE MANOR EXT SQ 5LOT 28

A/R C/PORT& SWIM/POOL

8815-APRICOTST DAVIS JEVELLE LILLI ANN 8815 APRICOT ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

LOT XAPRICOT 57 2X 116

6010-MEMPHISST DAVIS JOCELYN M 6010 MEMPHIS ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

326 LOT AMEMPHIS 35X122

4717-FLAKEAV DAVIS JOHN L 4717 FLAKE AVE, NEW

A/R GARAGE 7300-HEATHERCT DAVIS JOSEPH

$640.02

ADJ TREPAGNIERPLANTATION LOT6440X160 LEESLN

1327 GARDENA DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS: $1,960.58

OAK PARK ESTATES SQ 32 LOT 6GARDENA 60X120 BR SGLE 8/RMS A/R

S

ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $1,238.76 SQ 4459

50X105 SGLE STUCCO 7/RMS C/R C/PORT

AVE, #109, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS:

SQ 61 LOT DSTCHARLES&MIL LAUDON165 3-VARX 145VAR,

1016-NROMANST DE LA ROSE CALVIN 1016 NROMAN ST,NEW

SQ 399 LOT CPHILIP30X85 OVER 84 LOT DPHILIP 30X86 OVER88FILE #10732

INVESTMENTS#1, LLC 125 SPIERCE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119 TOTALDUE IS: $5,943.97 SQ 756 LOTS DORPT2526SOPIERCE 32X120 125-125HF 127 -127HF

PIERCE 14913-EMORYRD DIXON NATHAN JR 14913 EMORYRD, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $1,231.83 SQ J

VILLAGE PART CLOT 28 EMORYRD41/47X90 BR/SGLE

6/07 SUCN

SQS 8AND 8BLOTS 13 TO 16 LAINE 100X141 VACANT

ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $1,963.71 SQ

LOT 5SGALVEZ AND MARTIN LUTHERKING 24 X52FILE #18367 4217-NROMANST

CHARLES III

4217NROMAN ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $6,513.00 SQ 856 LOT 26 NROMAN 30X124 2/ST SGLE 6/RMS A/R &BASE SEE E REC TAXSALE DEED 07/10/02 NA# 02-36342 INST# 240672 $3414.74/ SEE SEC ERECORD TAXREDEMPTION$10,336.04 6/14/2005 INSTR# 309920 NA# 05-30638

RZITLER TRUST #1

NAPOLEON AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $9,826.46 SQ 658 LOT 8HFLOTS 9AND 7NAPOLEONAVE 60X120 4-PLEX-STU FILE #74202 4/96

L

LOUISIANA AVEPW, NEW ORLEANS, LA

FRAMES/R SEE ERECORD

4540-SCHINDLERDR

ERVIN KEVIN LSR 4540 SCHINDLER DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA

MERLIE MANOR SQ 4LOT

A/R C/PORT

KEVIN

VIRGILIAN ST EXTENSION LOT 66 VIRGILIAN

RMS C/R GARAGE

5959-WDEERPARKBL ESCORTENTERPRISEINC 5959 WDEER PARK BLVD,

579 LOT 14 NROBERTSON 30 X170 DBEL131/2 RM A/R &LOT

ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $1,556.72

INDUSTRYPROPERTIES LLC

2722 FRANKLIN AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA

1596 LOT 10 FRANKLIN AND INDUSTRY39X134

GARAGE

5353-FRANKLINAV FRANKLIN AVEHOLDINGS LLC 5353 FRANKLIN AVE, NEW ORLEANS,

BLDG -YOUNG’S CLEANINGAND RESTORATION.

9114001-THOMASST

FRANKLIN BENJAMIN 9114001 THOMAS ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

RIVERSIDE SQ 249 LOT 16 28 X87THOMAS &RANKIN

87 THOMAS

6405-IVORYST

FRANKLIN BENJAMIN

6405 IVORYST, NEW ORLEANS, LA

SQ 5LOT 109 40 X120 6405 IVORY

2053-NDORGENOISST

FRANKLIN CENTRELLE E 2053 NDORGENOIS ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

SQ 1373 LOT 18-A NDORGENOIS 32

5226-WILDAIRDR FRANKLIN CHARLES 5226 WILDAIR DR, NEW ORLEANS,

596 LOT 9PALMETTO 30 X748LOT 10 PALMETTO

X714 8836-34 PALMETTO

820-JOURDANAV

GLADNEY GRETAA 820 JOURDAN AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA

LOT 18 PAINTERS 29 X127 2324-FRENCHMENST HALL ERROL IJR 2324 FRENCHMEN ST,NEW ORLEANS,

EMILYIOLANDA

LOT 14 HAMPSON ST 30X100 7605 HAMPSON

GWENDOLYN

2422 DUMAINEST, NEWORLEANS, LA

312 LOT 20 39X186 2422 DUMAINE ST

2107-SPRIEURST

HAMILTON JOSEPHUS

2107 SPRIEURST, NEW ORLEANS, LA

433 LOT MSPRIEUR30X150 2107 SPRIEURST

2115-SPRIEURST HAMILTON JOSEPHUS 2115 SPRIEURST, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE

433 LOT ASPRIEUR 30X60 FILE #17650

3419-BARONNEST

HAMILTON KIMBERLYANN 3419 BARONNE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL

SQ 464 LOT 24 BARONNE 32X150 3417-19

#78085 1/97 SUCN

2117-DESIREST HAMILTON RENADA TETAL 2117 DESIRE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

LOT 4DESIRE 40X120 SGLE 4/RM A/R

4906-CAMELIAST HAMMOND CAROLYN A 4906 CAMELIA ST,NEW ORLEANS,

$2,450.73

LA TOTAL DUE IS: $6,080.81

ALAKE FOREST ESTATES #1 LOT 14 KENSINGTONBD97X210/ 209 SGLE BR/V 14/RM CARPORTSWIMMING POOL SEEERECORD PERMIT#B00001662 $42,000; 396SQ.FT.2/STY, SINGLE

708-NEWTONST HARRISON MARTIN LEHMAN A 708 NEWTON ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $1,590.80 SQ 158 PT 12 18/19 X32708 NEWTON

1822-SLOPEZST

MARY 1822 SLOPEZ ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $6,967.03 SQ 177 LOTS 12-13 60X105 S-W FILE #93487 11/07 SUCN

M

NCLAIBORNE AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $1,693.80 SQ 630 PT LOT 7NCLAIBORNE 24 X100 SGLE 1/ST 6/RMS FRAME S/R

WAYFARER ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $780.72 SQ 2 OAK ISLAND PHASE

NEW ORLEANS, LA 70122 TOTALDUE IS: $1,883.77

11B PARIS OAKS SUB LOT 12A PERLITAST40X101 PLAN 7-6-3

2(1/2 BATHS )C/R GARAGE 7730-32 DORSETT DR 250-VERRETST HERMOJOSEPH E 250 VERRET ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA 70114

$12,304.23 SQ 26 LOT 18-B 500-08-12

2SQ4LOTS 37 38 CARNATION EA 25 X112 VACANT

FRANCES

TOULOUSE

919-NCLAIBORNEAV HUGHES JACQUELINE MARIE Y 919 NCLAIBORNE AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA

DUE

$3,312.99 SQ 207 LOT 5A OR 18R NCLAIBORNE 38X156 1700-LIZARDIST HUGLE CATHY R 1700 LIZARDI ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

811 LOT 23 LIZARDI 31 X106 SGLE 3/RMS&

FOR ZONING1-16-86 CALENDAR #13054 #11009

4426 MITHRA ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $2,148.72

PK SQ 33 LOT 19 MITHRA 50 X120 SGLE/FR 6/ RM A/R SEE EREC TAXSALE CLO MOORING TAXASSETGROUP$ 232,72,12/21/04,TAX YEAR 2003,NA# 05-05405, INST #300306 1249801-SABINEST

1249801 SABINE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $848.89 ELMWOOD SQ 116 LT 11 POTOMAC @NEVADA LT 12 POTOMAC 30 X120 EACH

MCCUE AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $270.35

SQ 234 LOTS 49 50 MC CUE AND GUTMANN

SGLE W/FR 5/RM A/R &GARAGE 1708-GENOGDENST JAMES SHARMAINEA 1708 GENERAL OGDEN ST,NEW ORLEANS,

VACANT 1624001-BRODTMANNST

GEORGE 1624001 BRODTMANN ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $317.74 ORLEANS SUB DIV SQ 105 LOTS 13/15 25 X100 EA BRODTMANN

ST

AVE, #4F, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS:

SQ 210 LOT A16/12 B-8 AND HF OF 9STCHARLES MADE INTO CONDOMINUIM TAKEN FROM TAXBILL NO.412103501 FILE #17258

GLORIA J 811 1ST ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $5,735.63 SQ

MARIGNY ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $2,891.83 SQ 1211 LOT 2MARIGNY ST &NTONTI ST 27X90 LOT 30 NTONTI ST 32X160 2305 MARIGNY ST &2249 NTONTI ST 40510-TROUTST JOHNSON HAROLD

#50352

LOT 11 DRYADES 32X150 3418-20 DRYADES ST DU-C/B-W

1518-ELIZARDIBL

JOHNSON SARAH M 1518 ELIZARDI BLVD, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS: $1,903.70

PACE PARK SQ 12 LOT 525X 120 ELIZARDI BLVD LOT 625X120 1518

ELIZARDI BLVD

3715-NROBERTSONST

JOHNSON SHANNON WILLIAMS

3715 NROBERTSON ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS: $2,230.93 SQ 660 LOT DNROBERTSON 30 X60DBLE 4/RMSEACH A/R 3715-17

NROBERTSON ST

611-FLOODST JOHNSON STANLEY

611 FLOOD ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117

114 LOT 18 FLOOD 31 X130 WD/FR SGLE 7/RMST/R SUCC. -SAMUEL JOHNSON,SR. TO OZELLJOHNSON,WIFE, ETALS DOC.#05-5724, NA#05-21637 INSTR.#306699

5168-BAYOUVIEWCT

JOHNSON TERRENCE W 5168 BAYOUVIEW CT,NEW ORLEANS, LA

3WESTLAKE SUB LOT 31-B BAYOUVIEW CT

TOWNHOUSE 81/2 RMSC/R 1930-PORTST JOHNSON TYREE J 1930 PORTST,

4646-BONITADR

ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $910.72 SQ 548

BSTONTI 30’ 7” X90’ 9” 548-50 STONTI

STONTI ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $4,564.60 SQ 548 LOT 11 TONTI 30’ 11” X151” 536-38 STONTI

ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $1,535.61 SQ 557 LOT 30 TONTI AND BRADISDALLEY30’ X91’ 4”

$4,387.55 SQ 774 LOT 7ELYSIAN FLDS 32X125

SGLE/FR 7/RMS A/R

1811-DUMAINEST KIMERLYSCEU 1811 DUMAINEST,

CURRAN

$3,077.34 SQ DNORTH KENILWORTH LOT 6CURRAN

60X108 OVER 107 SGLE/BR 2/STORY11/RM A/R

2038-PHILIPST KING BARBARA W 2038 PHILIP ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

LOT 1PHILIP ST AND SSARATOGA 34X86 =2924

PHILIP FILE #17639

5501-WILDAIRDR KING EARRAINAR

FILLMORE GARDENSSQ10LOT 1WILDAIR AND RAPIDES

SGLE W/FR 8/RM A/R

SGLE 8/RM S/R AND GARAGE

BIENVENUE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $2,502.86 SQ 81 LOT 22 BIENVENUE 30 X136 SGLE/BR/V 1/STORY 7/RM A/R

NCLAIBORNE AV 41 X170 W/FR

10/RMS A/R GARAGE

EHERMES ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $2,566.14 PINE

SQ 21 LOT 17 EHERMES64X110 SGLE/BR/V 10/RMS A/R C/

PERMIT B01632 9/91 $25,400 REPARIS

LEWIS LINCOLN

3038NCLAIBORNE AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $900.01 SQ 652 LOT AOR8NCLAIBORN EAND FELICIANA 27X106 DBLE SHOT GUN W/FR 15/RM C/R GARA GE 3038-40 NCLAIBORNE AVEWOP F67 L11 SEE ERECORD TAXSALE DEED07/31/2002 243352 02-44425

LINH 5200 TIMBER HAVEN LN, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS: $1,192.98

TIMBERS SQ 3LOT 240X 90 5200 TIMBERHAVEN LN 3410-DICKENSDR

3410DICKENS DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $448.96 HOLLY PARK SEC 2SQ146 LOT 26 50 X105 3410 DICKENS DR

8630 HAYNE BLVD, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $916.68 SQ H LAKE GROVE PARK LOT 12 LINCOLN BEACH 59 X99DBLE/BR/V 14/ RM A/R C/PORT

AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $16,906.29

SUBD PHASE 1SECTIONALOT 11 ADVENTURE AV

PLAN 9-14-5 ASS’D ‘83 39W965108 BR/FR/SGLE 10/RM

DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70122 TOTAL DUE IS:

C-MIRABEAU GARDENS LOT3-4 60/53-7X13418/152

$6,514.07 SQ 374 LOT 16-2 OR 15 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE56X154 SGLE 1/ST 7/RMSW/FRAME S/R

2029-PENISTONST MEAD WARREN JR 2029 PENISTON ST,NEW ORLEANS,

TOTALDUE IS:

SQ 226 LOT R2NDERBIGNY 14X42

3740PIEDMONT DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $3,227.64

HGTS SQ 185 LOTS 78 BEAUREGARD 50X120 VACANT

NCLAIBORNE AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117 TOTALDUE IS:

SQ 745 PT LOT 330X160 2323-25 NCLAIBORNE AVEDBLE/ FR 10/RM S/R

LAWRENCE RD, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $20,593.00 SQ 7LAKE WILLOW LOT 1-D-1 LAWRENCE RD THRU LAKE WILLOW167/ VARX74/VAR 3/STORYFR/SI DING APT BLDG ETHE WILLOWS APTS 2923-KABELDR

DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $2,446.28 OAKRIDGE PARK SQ JLOT 859X 128/130 2923 KABELDR 3531-STANTHONYAV

D

AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70122 TOTALDUE IS: $2,023.80 SQ 2328 LOT 2STANTHONY 32 X103 TRIPLEX/FR 22/RM A/R

LOT A1 SYCAMORE &LEONIDAS 60 X100 1926-JOLIETST MORRELLJUNIUS CJR

JOLIET ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

LOT 31 JOLIET 20 X150

1804-LOWERLINEST MORRELLVALANCE 1804 LOWERLINEST, NEWORLEANS, LA

SQ 250 LOT 2LOWERLINE THRU TO HILLARY30X

CAZELAR PLANTATION SQ CLOT 91 43 X102 1851

DR INCLD’D WITH 5-13-7-127-10

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OLDE TOWN MANAGEMENT, LLC

3609801 MARIGNY ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117 TOTALDUE IS:

$2,740.06 SQ 372 LOT GPTLOTS 5AND 6MARIGNY 17-4-31/53X6390/86- 68 4/TIN GARAGES SEE EREC TAXSALE DEED10/10/02 INST# 249344 02-62278 1,502

3233-LOUISAST OLIVER ANDREW JR 3233 LOUISA ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $454.11 SQ 2082

6JOHNNY JACKSON JR BLVD 43X109 W/FR SGLE 8/RMS S/R

241 LOT 11 COHN 30 X150 8412-14 COHN 1421-LEONIDASST PARQUET REGINALD A 1421 LEONIDAS ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

177 LOTS 11 12 LEONIDAS 60 X150 2DB1421-27

1041-DAUPHINEST PASA VENDRE LLC 1041 DAUPHINEST, NEWORLEANS, LA

84 LOT ADAUPHINEAND URSULINES 31X55

4225-SROMANST PATCO HOLDINGS LLC 4225 SROMAN ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

721 LOT 5D SROMAN 35 OVER 30X137

ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $1,060.67

31 PONTCHARTRAIN PK LOT 28 PROVIDENCE PL 52 OVER41X101 OVER 100 SGLE/BR/V 7/RM A/R GARAGE

DAVID 8017 TRAPIER AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $2,931.36 SQ 45 &46WEST HF COMM RESERVE LOT C-1 TRAPIERAV53X100 2/STORY FR/FOURPLEX 5/RM EA SIDE A/R C/PORT

ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $1,473.59 SQ 279

FOREST EAST NO 2SQVLOT 19 MAJOR DR 50X110

7/RM A/R GARAGE 6042-PASTEURBL

B

PASTEUR BLVD, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $126.00

SUBD SQ 3ORCLOT 113 C6042-PASTEUR 58X120 FR SGLE 9.5/RMS A/R

INVESTMENTS PROPERTIES LLC 3706PRYTANIA ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $11,281.45 SQ 334 LOT DPRYTANIA &AMELIA 107/108X105/107 2STY-OFF BLDG-W

6/06 SQ 334 LOT DPRYTANIA AND FILE #64059 6-88 COM AMELIA 107/108 X105/107 2STY-OFF BLDG-W

ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $669.38 OAKDALE SQ 236 OR 3LOT 15 26 X127 1308 PTOLEMY

CLAUDE AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $4,596.21

AVE,

LA TOTALDUE IS: $3,758.25 SQ 302 OR 15 ALOT G45X150 915-17-19 JOURDAN AVE

625 INDEPENDENCE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $4,800.20 SQ 135 LOT 2OR15INDEPENDENCE 36 X95 SGLE1/STORY7/RM S/R

5210-CONSTANCEST QUINA BRENT W 5210CONSTANCE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $5,789.95 SQ 183 LOT 16 CONSTANCE 30X115 5208-10 CONSTANCE DU-WFILE #93738 1/08 SUCN 5457001-ALMONASTERAV R&MREALITY LLC

5457001 ALMONASTER AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS:

$803.76 SQ GENTILLYROAD SIDE DEPTH TOWARD THE CITY LOT 96-A 192.28/154.15-23.10X739.2-838.76/1562.46 ALMONASTERAVE EX TO REAR

1820-ONZAGAST

R2H GOLD LLC 1820 ONZAGA ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $5,631.84 SQ 893 LOT B7PT8ONZAGA 32 X117 OVER 130 2/ST DBLE 9/RMS EA S/R 1820-22 ONZAGA ST

ANDREW ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $27,882.04 SQ

ADDRESS 3/13/2006 5302-WARRINGTONDR ROBERTJOSEPH AJR 5302 WARRINGTON DR, NEW ORLEANS,

FILLMORE

WILLOW &FERRY30X 60 8922-24 WILLOW

1997-2003

7548-AVONPARKBL ROBERTS AUSTIN BARAKA

7548 AVON PARK BLVD, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS: $10,463.19

ORLEANSSUB DIV SQ 98 LOT 16 25 X100

4519-CAMELOTDR ROBERTS KEITH 4519 CAMELOT DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA

60X110 SGLE/BR/V 10/RMSS/R GARAGE

2443-ALMONASTERAV

SQ 1316 LOT XOR1 ALMONASTER AND

9/RMSA/R &UTILITY/RM 3201-MISTLETOEST

ST CHARLES AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $2,918.73

RMS C/PORT

3100-RUEPARCFONTAINE2222

SANDERS REMODELERSLLC

3100 PARC FONTAINE, #2222, NEW ORLEANS, LA

PARC FONTAINE (PARC FONTAINE CONDOMINIUM)

3100-RUEPARCFONTAINE2008

SANDERS REMODELERSLLC

3100 PARC FONTAINE, #2008, NEW ORLEANS, LA

$1,695.35 PARC FONTAINE SQ CPTLOT 1ORUNIT

PARC FONTAINE (PARC FONTAINE CONDOMINIUM)

6019-BOEINGST SANDERS THEODORE JR 6019 BOEINGST, NEW ORLEANS, LA

SKYVIEW SUBD LOT 29 BOEINGST 28 X102

TOWNHOUSE 7& 2(1/2/ BATHS) A/R

5011-SROBERTSONST

SANDIFER LINDA D 5011 SROBERTSON ST,NEW ORLEANS,

#92798 4/07 QUIT

4131-WILSONAV SANKEY CHARLIE JSR 4131 WILSON AVE, NEW ORLEANS,

1537-HARCOURTDR SANTAMARINA CHRISTINE

& GARAGE A/R &SIDING

52511-ELAINEST

ROBERT HIII

ELAINE

SQ

PK PL RSSQ13LOTS 15 AND 16 ELAINE 60X110 EACH VACANT SEE E RECORD TAXSALE 12-01-2004 362.42 04-16277 279868

52524-MIDLOTHANST SARPY ROBERTHIII 52524 MIDLOTHAN ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS: $599.94 GENTILLYPKPLR SSQ13LOTS 26 THRU 30 MIDLOTHAN 150X110 VACANT SEE ERECORD TAXSALE INST #158135 3/23/98 DARYL K COBBS SEE NEXT ERECORD TAXSALE DEED 02-61606 09/30/2002 249127

9900-LAKEFORESTBL SATURN MANAGEMENTINC

9900 LAKE FOREST BLVD, NEWORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS: $21,488.52 SEC 24 LOT 6A-5C LK FOREST BD PLAN 9-16A-11 279/286 X285/267 FOREST CENTER EAST LTC1989 1/ST STEEL &CONCRETE BLDG

6821-DORCHESTERST SAUL JENNIFER

9-18-20 ASSD

LOT1531X125

959 LOT ALAMANCHE AND NPRIEUR 41X108 FR SGLE &3/APT 15/RM &SHED A/R

LAMANCHE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117 TOTALDUE IS:

SQ 1451 LOT 8LAMANCHE 31X108 BR/SGLE 7/RM A/R

57/52X134/121 A/R ASBESTOS/SIDING SGLE

LN, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS: $2,776.70

TURN SDPHASE

518 LOT FFORSHEY 30 X112 9321-23 FORSHEY 3625-CLEMATISST SMITH &WRIGHTS CONSULTING LLC

CLEMATIS

EDGEWOOD PARK SQ 10 LOT SOR27BCLEMATIS

FR/SGLE 71/2 RMS C/R

1012-ODEONST SMITH ALTHEA 1012 ODEON ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

TUNISBURG SQ 4LOT 331X132 1012 ODEON

7051-CURRANRD SMITH BRENT QSR 7051 CURRAN BLVD, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS: $2,390.89 SQ 21 SEC 11 PART DLOT 8CURRAN RD AND ST CHARLES CANAL 71 OVER 65X148 SGLE/BR/V 12/RM A/R C/PORT

2608-TENNESSEEST SMITH CASHMERE 2608 TENNESSEE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117 TOTAL DUE IS: $1,655.42 SQ 1415 1460 LOT 87 TENNESSEE 43X120 C/BLOCK SGLE 9/RMS A/R 3009-SSARATOGAST SMITH CRYSTAL A 3009 SSARATOGA ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

ACRES SQ 12 LOT 15 READ RD 50X100 SGLE/BR/V 10/RMS C/R GARAGE

53590-WOODLANDDR

53670-GRANDAV STADEROY

ST CLAUDE AVE1/ST SIDING GEN

NVILLERE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $1,837.88

DBLE 3/RM AND 4/RM C/R

4641-AMERICAST

TAYLOR DANIS R 4641 AMERICA ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA 70126

ROSEDALE SQ 18 LOTS 13 14 AMERICA 50 X124 BR/FR &STONE

SIDINGSGLE 7/R A/R &GARAGE

5217-LAKEVIEWCT

TAYLOR DANIS R 5217 LAKEVIEW CT,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS: $1,086.08 SQ 3 WESTLAKE SUB LOT 79B LAKEVIEW CT 18-5/31X94/100

ERECORD

5219-LAKEVIEWCT

TAYLOR DANIS R 5219 LAKEVIEW CT,NEW ORLEANS, LA

3WESTLAKE

AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70128-2336 TOTALDUE IS: $1,826.86 SQ BULLARD PARK SUBD LOT 755X 152/150 2-STY BR/ SGLE 7453-BULLARD AVE 5901-ROYALST THOMAS SYLVIA B 5901 ROYAL ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $2,654.65 SQ 202 LOT A32/48 X165/166 ROYAL &ALABO STS 1/STORYW/FR DBLE 5901-03 ROYAL ST

47060-NCLAIBORNEAV

ANTHONY 47060 NCLAIBORNE AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $770.21 SQ 690 PT LOT INCLAIBORNE 34/11-23 X57-15/72 VACANT

NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS: $441.46 SQ 1421 A LOT 7ANDRY31X100 BR/SGLE 9/RMS T/R GARAGE

7309-EBBTIDEDR TODD KAREN J 7309 EBBTIDE DR,

NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $7,868.06 SQ 2290-A &2137 GENTILLYBD & LIVEOAK PL LOT A124/106X63/0 ALSO LOT B45/32-24 X106/128

NA #2003-37515 1766-PRESSBURGDR VICKNAIR KEVIN 1766 PRESSBURGDR, NEW

BR V9/RM A/R &C/PORT 3321-BENNETTST VICTOR CLIFTON JR 3321 BENNETT ST,NEW

43X103 PLAN 9-12A-6 ASSD BR/V SGLE 10/RMS C/R

B28884 8/17/95 $52,910 1430 SQFT NEW CONSTR

6600-PEONYST WILLIAMS LISA 6600 PEONYST, NEWORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE

$4,033.30 ORLEANS SUB DIV SQ 2LOT 125X100 `6600 PEONY@ WILSON LOT 2 25 X100 PORET’D ‘06 HE APP-P OBOX

3039-GENTAYLORST WILLIAMSLUCINDA T 3039 GENERAL TAYLOR ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA 70125 TOTAL DUE IS: $2,258.43 SQ 5LOT 24A GEN TAYLOR AND SDERBIGNY28X73 STORE-W FILE #96150 9/09

4220-SDERBIGNYST WILLIAMS LUCINDA T 4220 SDERBIGNYST, NEWORLEANS, LA TOTAL DUE IS: $4,948.17

T40X120 S-RAISED-W/APT-W

#72145 10/94 64-GRANDCANYONDR WILLIAMS MARIEC 64 GRAND CANYON DR, NEW ORLEANS,

ROBERTA 3408 METROPOLITAN ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA

EREC AFFIDAVIT

RMSA/R SEE ERECORD 2921-CHERRYST WILLIAMSROSA LETAL

CHERRYST, NEW ORLEANS, LA

$9,172.30 SQ 446 LOT Y2NRENDON 29X90 4801-SCHINDLERDR

A 4801 SCHINDLER DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $674.15 MERLIE MANOR SQ 6LOT 123 SCHINDLER60X90 SGLE/BR/V 2/

MANZEL RIII

SIERRA MADRE DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $12,970.56 CORONADO HGTS SQ 13 LOT 16 SIERRA MADRE 63 X90SGLE/BR/V 8/RM A/R C/PORT 1715-EAGLEST WOODS EDGAR H 1715 EAGLE ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $147.95 SQ 231 LOT 4PTLOTS 3&5EAGLE 39 X120

JEANNE J 1518 LE BOEUF ST,NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $1,145.79

OR 5LOTS 18 &1925X 136 EACH 1518 LEBOEUF

1716-SONIATST YOUNG EDWARD R 1716 SONIATST, NEW ORLEANS, LA

484 LOT BSONIAT62X 125 1712-16 SONIATSTDUP-STU/POOL

PERMIT FILE #86078 8/03

4711-SCARROLLTONAV YOUNG EDWARD R 4711 SCARROLLTON AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA

$11,106.89 SQ 783 LOT CS CARROLLTON 40

CARROLLTON

5341-STCHARLESAV YOUNGEDWARD R 5341 ST CHARLES AVE, NEW ORLEANS, LA

SQ 446 LOT B-3 ST CHARLES 49/VAR X207/VAR

CHARLES RESUBD 12/97 CORR LOT

911-HAGANAV YOUNGEDWARD R 911 HAGAN AVE, NEW ORLEANS,

GROVE 5SEC 12 LOT 4K WALES ST 48X125 SGLE/BR/V 9/RM A/R C/PORT

ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $2,129.74

ACRES SQ 4LOT 6SPRINGWOOD62X100 SGLE FR/BR/V

NEW ORLEANS, LA TOTALDUE IS: $2,672.07 SQ A

GROVE PK LOT 10 AMAYORD55X103 SGLE/BR 9/RM A/R

ERECORD ACT OFPROCURATION3/29/90 LILLYANN

633X120 3314-16 ST CLAUDE AVEFR& C/BLOCK 2/STORY

10/RM &STORE &GARAGE

SQ 3LAKE CARMEL

WESLEY M. PLAISANCE

Partner, NewOrleans

Breazeale, Sachse &WilsonL.L.P 909Poydras St.Ste.1500

NewOrleans,LA70112

Phone:(504) 584-5471

wesley.plaisance@bswllp.com www.bswIlp.com

State-Wide TaxSaleand QuietTitle Litigation Practice Across Louisiana

Wesley Plaisanceisa Partnerinthe NewOrleans office of Breazeale, Sachse& Wilson L.L.P. whereheheads theTax Sale andQuiet TitleLitigationGroup andpractices other commercial litigation with afocus on real estate related litigation.Mr. Plaisanceregularly handlestax sale litigation matters across Louisianaincluding withoutlimitationinthe followingParishes: Orleans,Caddo,Ouachita, Bossier, Ascension, East BatonRouge,St. Tammany, Jefferson, Lafayette, Livingston, Plaqueminesand Lafourche. Mr Plaisancerepresentstax sale purchasers in suitstoconfirm tax sale title(s) andownership with and/or withoutcancellationof mortgagesand otherencumbrances, in settlement of taxsale litigation mattersand in partitionproceedings commencedafter atax sale purchaserconfirmsonlya fractional ownership interest

Mr.Plaisance hasextensive experience in representing tax debtors, landowners, mortgage holdersincluding banksand otherinterestedparties in actionstoannul and/or nullify tax sales. Mr.Plaisance hassuccessfully litigatedcomplex commercial litigation mattersarising outoflarge investment fundscreatedtopurchasetax sale certificates and/or taxsale deedsinLouisiana,Georgia,Indiana andFlorida

Numerous TaxSaleTransactionsin LouisianaIncluding With TitleInsurance

Mr.Plaisance is aresourcefor taxsalepurchaserstobuy or sell interest undertaxsalecertificates/deedstoother investorsand hasassistedhis clientsinthe acquisitionand/orsaleof numerous taxsaledeeds/certificatesinLouisiana.Mr. Plaisance assistshis clientsinnavigatingthe sale of immovableproperty with titleinsurance afterconfirmation of thetax sale certificates/deeds

Mr.Plaisance graduated magnacum laude from Loyola University NewOrleans CollegeofLaw wherehewas a member of theLoyolaLaw Review.Inaddition, Mr.Plaisance served as an extern forthe HonorableKurtD.Engelhardtinthe United States District Courtfor theEastern District of Louisiana. Priortolaw school,Mr. Plaisanceearnedhis Bachelor of SciencedegreeinBiologicalEngineering from LouisianaState University cumlaude.

Breazeale, Sachse &Wilson, L.L.P. ("BSW")was founded in BatonRouge in 1928.Today,BSW is amultidisciplinedlaw firm with more than 70 attorneys servingthe legaland business needsofpeopleand companiesthroughout Louisiana. Thefirmhas officesinBaton Rougeand NewOrleans ResultsMayVary LA-25-18889

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Trim that makes apointed statement. PAGE 8

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Home and garden happenings. PAGE 9

INSIDE SOURCES

Wallpaper possibilities are growing. PAGE 10

COVERSTORY

Garden District home abright, tropical haven. PAGE 12

ONEINAMILLION

Webster Street home defines elegance. PAGE 16

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Recent transactions in the metroarea. PAGE 18

InsideOut’smission is to give readers peeks inside the manydifferent ways that people in the New Orleans area live. We profilespaces that are opulent, or just offbeat; sophisticated or simple; functional or light-hearted; historic or brand-spanking new.And anything in between.

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DEFENDING YOURTURF

Fall will officially start Monday onthe fallequinox, but summerlike weather will

linger awhile longer here. Things are starting to change in our lawns though. The growthofgrasses like St. Augustine, centipede, bermuda and zoysia is beginning to slow down.

This meansthat after the end of September,it’snot a good idea to do anything that would disrupt or damage the turf like filling, aerification or dethatching. The grass may not have time to properly recover before winter dormancy. If you need to fill, aerify,dethatch or lay sod, now is the time to do it.

Slower growthalso means we won’tneed to mow as often (won’t that be nice). Buteven though we begin to mow less often, it is still important to mow regularly to maintain proper height

Be careful how you fertilize Lawnsgodormant over the winter,and that’simportantto their ability to survive winter freezes. Avoid applying lawn fertilizers now,orinthe fall, that contain relatively high amounts of nitrogen. They will stimulategrowthduring mild fall weather,and that makes thegrass moresusceptible to fungal diseases this fall and cold injury this winter

Youmay hear that you need to apply awinterizer fertilizer to your lawn in thefall, but they are not critical for our lawn grasses to survive. The types of grasses we use are fully winter hardy.

Youcan apply ahigh-potassium winterizer if asoil test in-

Mowing alone isn’tenough. Tryapplying apreemergence

to keep weeds from coming up in the fall.

dicates that yours needs potassium.Choose afertilizer with an analysis (the three numbers that appear on thelabel) that has afirst number (nitrogen) that is zero or less than 5and asmall second number (phosphorus).The third number in thefertilizer analysis (potassium)should be the highest number.

There is one thing to watch out for: North of the Deep South, thelawn grasses used (rye, fescue, bluegrass, bentgrass) benefit from ahigh-nitrogen fertilization in the fall. Unfortunately,these high-nitrogen winterizers forNorthern lawns are solddownhere by somegardeningoutlets. Do not use them. Winter-

Nowis agood time to fertilize lawns and treat weeds.

izers that are high in nitrogen will actually makeour lawn grasses less hardy going into the winter and moreprone to brownpatch disease.

Cool-seasonweedcontrol

Cool-season annual weeds can be prevented from ever making an appearance at all. The application of apreemergence herbicide now will kill the germinating weed seeds before they come up. Apply them in the last weekof September or first week of October.

Weed preventers are granular materials containing pendimethalin, simazine, trifluralin,

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GARDEN TIPS

CALADIUM CARE: Evaluate caladium plantings.When the plants begin to look tired and less attractive and about twothirds of the leaves have fallen over, it’s time to dig the tubers. Caladiums may return the next year if left in the ground, but it is more reliable to dig them and store them indoors over the winter Dig the tubers carefully leaving the foliage attached, and spread them out in a wellventilated area to dry.When the foliage is dry and brown, pull it from the tubers and store them in paper or net bags indoors over the winter

CAMELLIASARE COMING:

Camellia flower buds are starting to swell but generally will not bloom until November or December Water through October if weather is dry.Drought in the fall can cause buds not to open properly when it is time for them to bloom.Sasanqua camellias are starting to bloom now.

JUST ADD WATER: Rainfall has been sparse the past few weeks, so you need to pay more attention to watering.Apply water to the landscape slowly and over a long enough period of time to allow it to penetrate at least 4 to 6 inches into the soil. you can best accomplish this by using sprinklers, soaker hoses or even drip irrigation.Then, don’t water again until the soil begins to dry out.you can even wait for the plants to show slight drought stress before watering Deep watering should be necessary for established plants only once or twice a week, even during very dry periods.

BY DAN GILL Contributing writer

There are brown spots with purple edges on the leaves of my hydrangeas.They are still producing some small flowers and new growth. But new growth becomes spotted as it appears. Is there anything I can do? — Beryl This is Cercospora leaf spot, a fungal disease that commonly attacks hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla) in summer. The disease is encouraged by rainy weather We have gotten regular rainfall this summer, and Cercospora leaf spot has been widespread. The drier weather we are experiencing may help, but

Cercospora leaf spot causes dark spots and defoliation on hydrangeas.

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benefin or oryzalin that are spread over the lawn. These herbicides prevent weed growth for several months and usually last through spring. Selective postemergence herbicides may be used to control weeds actively growing in the lawn now. Celsius is a good choice, but there are other suitable formulations available that kill a wide range of weeds. Make sure that the product you choose is safe to use on the type of lawn grass you have. Because it’s too late to fertilize, the use of weed-and-feeds (herbicide and fertilizer combinations) is not recommended.

Insect problems

Chinch bugs are a leading insect pest of late summer, and we may be looking at an outbreak. The recent hot, dry weather is ideal for chinch bugs to attack and damage lawns. Look for enlarging irregular shaped areas where the grass has turned brown and strawlike, often starting near concrete surfaces. The grass blades will be rolled lengthwise into tubes.

If you determine you have chinch bugs, promptly apply a lawn insecticide labeled to

A healthy lawn is the centerpiece of the home landscape.

control chinch bugs, such as lambda-cyhalothrin, permethrin or bifenthrin. Unfortunately, chinch bugs tend to kill the grass in areas that turn brown. You will likely need to lay new sod to repair the damage after the chinch bugs are controlled.

Brown patches in the lawn could be a sign of chinch bugs.

Sod webworms show up every few years in our lawns in late summer If you see numerous small, tan moths fluttering around the yard and then see large areas of your lawn turn brown, you likely have an infestation of sod webworms. At that point, you need to spray your entire lawn with an insecticide such as spinosad (an organic insecticide) or bifenthrin (a pyrethroid). The brown areas are not dead and generally recover after treatment.

Common diseases

Brown patch or large patch is the most common fungal disease affecting lawns in fall and early winter The symptoms are rapidly enlarging circular areas several inches to several feet in diameter A ring may border the diseased area that looks yellowish, yellow-orange (St. Augustine) or purplish (centipede). The

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using a fungicide regularly can help minimize additional spotting. Spraying every seven to 10 days with chlorothalonil (Daconil and other brands) now through the end of October should help prevent the spotting of leaves not yet infected. In the future, begin treatment from early summer to midsummer when you first start seeing the spots show up. This disease looks bad and causes leaf drop, but it is not fatal, and plants will recover whether you treat them or not. Gather and dispose of fallen infected leaves. You may be tempted to prune back your hydrangeas now as they are not looking their best. But flower buds that will bloom out next May are already set on the plants now. Pruning hy-

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fungus can, but usually does not, kill the grass within the affected area.

If you see rapidly enlarging brown areas, treat promptly with myclobutanil (Ferti-lome F-Stop, Green Light Fung-

black stuff on it and white spots on the trunk. Even plants under the trees are turning black. — Lyndon

Your trees are infested with crape myrtle bark scale insects. This scale excretes honeydew, a sugary liquid that coats the bark. Sooty mold grows on the honeydew, resulting in a black coating that appears on the bark of the branches and trunks of crape myrtles. It will even show up on plants below the crape myrtles as the honeydew falls on them. The sooty mold looks bad but does not actually hurt the trees or plants below them. (Crape myrtle aphids also produce honeydew leading to sooty mold on the leaves and branches.)

drangeas anytime from now to when they bloom next year will reduce or eliminate flowers.

My crape myrtle looks sick.There is

away, Spectracide Immunox) or other lawn fungicides. Proper care now, including watering during dry weather, mowing, weed control and disease control, can keep your lawn attractive through the fall and make sure it is prepared for the coming winter That will make both you and your lawn happy

The insects appear as white, waxy encrustations likely to occur anywhere on the trunk and main branches of the tree, but often near pruning wounds or in branch crotches.

If practical, clean the trunk and reachable limbs of heavily infested plants with a soft brush and mild solution of dishwashing soap to remove the scale insects and sooty mold. The scales and sooty mold on the bark may also be removed with water pressure using a jet nozzle on a garden hose. If this is not done, sooty mold will eventually disappear on its own once the crape myrtle bark scale insects are controlled. Although effective on many other types of scale, horticultural oil sprays have not been particularly effective in controlling crape myrtle bark scale. Systemic insecticides applied as a soil drench to the root zone of the crape myrtle trees provide the best control. Treatment should be done whenever the crape myrtle bark scales are noticed — the sooner the better Systemic insecticides include dinotefuran

(Greenlight Tree and Shrub Insect Control with Safari and other brands) and imidacloprid (Bayer Advanced Garden Tree and Shrub Insect Control and other brands). Allow several weeks for these insecticides to work because they must spread through the plant.

What should I spray on my St Augustine lawn to get rid of dollarweed, crabgrass and bahiagrass? — Bob

You can use the lawn weed killer Celsius to control all three of these weeds in St. Augustine. You may apply it now following label directions. If needed, make a second application to ensure good control.

Dan Gill is a retired consumer horticulture specialist with the LSU AgCenter. He hosts the “Garden Show” on WWLAM Saturdays at 9 a.m. Email gardening questions to gnogardening@agcenter.lsu. edu.

Cutting edge

It may be a natural inclination to do so, but sharp edges don’t always have to be smoothed. Sometimes, they can elevate an exterior, turning milquetoast architectural trim into something that makes a pointed statement.

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Master Gardeners plan fall seminar

The St. Tammany Master Gardener Association, in conjunction with the LSU AgCenter,will host aseminar with speakers on design, seed preservation and boutiques, plus lunch, on Oct. 17 at Church of the King, 22205 Little Creed Road, in Mandeville.

Laura Dowling, former chief floral designer at the White House, will speak on holiday design, and John Coykendall, artist and Master Gardener, will discuss saving and preserving seeds.

Tickets for the event, which is from 8a.m. to 2:30 p.m., are $60 and sold in advance only. Visit stmastergardener.org.

BK House symposium looks

at textiles

“Historical Textiles inHome Design: Quilts, Needlework, Cottons &Linens” will be the theme for the annual Beautiful Spaces Symposium from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at the BK House &Gardens, 1113 Chartres St., in theVieux Carré.

Sessions on fabrics for the home, exploring thesignificance of textiles in design, cultural identity and regional aestheticstyle will include discussion periods at theend of each.

Tickets start at $55.For information, visit bkhouse.org.

Environmentalevent at Children’sMuseum

Inspiring children and families to explore sustainability through hands-on activities is the goal of the third annual Environmental Rescue from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at the Louisiana Children’s Museum in City Park.

Activities at the “play with apurpose” include building a cardboard city,creatingart fromrecycledelectronics and learning about composting, plus ascavenger hunt.

On hand will be Rocky and Skye from “PAW Patrol” for

Laura Dowling, author of ‘Designing Christmas,’will be among the speakersatthe St. TammanyMaster Gardner Association’sfall seminar on Oct. 17 in Mandeville.

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There will also be achance for e-cycling drop-off for small electronics from 11 a.m. to 2p.m.

Forinformation, visit lcm. org

Visit the old K-Paul’s with PRC Wednesday

ThePreservation Resource Center visits the French Quarter building that once housed thefamousPaul Prudhomme restaurant K-Paul’sat5:30 p.m.Wednesday for aBeams and Brews tour.

The Historic New Orleans Collection purchased the building at 420 Chartres St., formerly two separatestructures, and is renovating them to stabilize, reroof and update interiors.

View construction and hear from project managers —plus have abeverage from Urban SouthBrewery

Tickets are $10. Visit prcno. org.

Fall festival setat

Botanical Garden

The New OrleansBotanical Garden will be alive with gardening gurus from all over the Southeast from 9a.m. to 6p.m. Oct. 4for the Fall Garden Festival.

Visit thegrounds at 1Palm Drive in City Park for plant sales, educational programs, arts and crafts, live music and over 50 vendors.

Admission is $15, $7 for ages 3-12 and free for Friends of City Parkmembers.

Registration open for tree school

Registration is open for the 25th annual Tree School in Jefferson Parish to be held Oct. 7.

The Carey Hammett Tree School, hosted by Friends of Jefferson theBeautiful, looks at the care and preservation of theparish’stree canopy

The one-day workshop will feature Diane Jones Allen, professor and program director of landscape architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Admission is $12.50 and free to professionals in the landscape and building sectors.

The school is from 8a.m. to 4:15 p.m. and includes lunch at theJefferson Performing Arts Center,6400 Airline Drive, in Metairie.

Visit friendsofjeffersonthebeautiful.org.

Volunteer projects abound at City Park

City Parkislooking for

volunteers foravariety of cleanup days and initiatives aimed at improving and maintaining the extensive urban green space. Those coming up include:

n Litter Cleanup Krewe: 9a.m. Tuesday.Volunteer Center

n Couturie Forest Trail Team Zoom Info Session: 9a.m. Thursday

n BigLakeNative Plant Trail Restoration Project: 9a.m. Friday.Big Lake Native Trail near 7Friedrichs Ave.

Register forthe programsat friendsofcitypark.volunteerhub.com.

Have ahome and garden eventcoming up? Send it to events@theadvocate.com.

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It was in 2018, while Dina Cintura was working as a structural welder, that she first groused to her grandmother out of frustration about working with “a bunch of big sweaty men.”

Her grandmother’s friend,

a wallpaper professional, suggested she try her hand at painting and wallpaper

“My first job was with 100-year-old vintage wallpaper, the heaviest bat I could have pulled for my first job,” Cintura said. “I said I would do the job for free. I had no idea what I was doing but I was careful, really careful.

“I kept calling my grandmother’s friend, asking her what to do. Then I started calling other women, total strangers, around the country, who also did this for a living and asking them for help until I figured it out. It clicked for me when I figured out it was a lot like welding — that moment when all the little pieces come together.”

Today, Cintura’s company, Women Who Wallpaper, employs four women, and their schedules remain solidly booked with both residential and commercial work locally and in New York, where Cintura worked for a time.

WHY SHE LOVES WALLPAPER: “I find being surrounded by images or designs to be very inspiring,” Cintura said. “People have been adorning their wall with images for centuries to make their spaces their own. For the ultimate in self-expression, you can have something custom designed.”

A LITTLE HISTORY: Wallpaper originated in the 16th century with European merchants, leading the aristocrats to ini-

tially regard the practice as bourgeois. By the beginning of the 20th century, the hoi polloi

Dina Cintura, owner of Women Who Wallpaper, works with a woven, patterned paper

were having the last laugh as the upper crust condescended to adopt the practice of ex-

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GO-TO BRANDS: Custom design is among Cintura’sgoals. For now,her go-to lines include Mind theGap, Flavor Paper (“Ourhometown hero”), Timorous Beasties, Milton &King and House of Hackney.“They use deep, rich inks,” Cintura said. “Their patterns look good online and even better in person. Their colors are substrated,and their seams really blend for aseamless installation.”

WALLPAPER VS.PAINT: Wallpaper’sdurabilitygives it an extended lifespan. It is available in aplethora of designs, textures and finishes (or you can design your own and have it fabricated), and it can cover wall imperfections like cracks or uneven surfaces. Often, it’seasy to maintain and clean with adamp cloth. Wallpaper may alsoserve as aprotectivelayer for walls, add visual depth, and improve room acoustics.

n High-qualitywallpapers can last 15 years or longer.

n Although wallpaper can require moreinitial cost and effort than painting, its longevitycan potentially offer cost benefits over time.

n Wallpaper may be used for full-room coverage or as an accent alongside painted surfaces.

To work with aclient, she schedules an in-person survey.

“Or, if you can provide height

and width of every wall to be covered, we can get you a remote quote right away,” Cintura said. “In-person surveys are always free of charge in New Orleans and forafee outside the greater New Orleans area.”

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The former Victorian double, turned single, is located in the Irish Channel, where Sitkin says she’s found a walkable, welcoming community just outside the doors.

A family is living their best lives in a redesigned Irish Channel Victorian double

BY JYL BENSON Contributing writer

Ellen Sitkin and Ben Cortopassi created their blissful oasis in the Irish Channel in 2019 after the birth of a second child tolled the bell on life in New York City.

“I was carrying a baby and lugging another child in a stroller in the snow and fighting my way onto the subway,” said Sitkin, a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts. “It was a nightmare. It had become impossible. My husband’s commute ate up hours a day, and I wanted to be somewhere warm. We were definitely not living

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our best lives.”

The couple narrowed their search to Savannah, Georgia, and New Orleans. Ultimately, Sitkin and Cortopassi, a financial software engineer, chose New Orleans due to its walkability.

“The city’s density is very similar to Cambridge,” Sitkin said. “We wanted everything within walking distance.”

They made the move in 2018 and rented a place in the Garden District while looking for a permanent home. They knew they wanted to stay in the area. They also wanted a large yard for themselves and their two young daughters, now 8 and 11.

They settled on a circa 1910 four-bay Victorian double, which a previous owner had converted to a single.

The house was on a double lot, the side yard cluttered with a hodgepodge of landscaping fits and starts.

“The house itself was very segmented, dark and strangely laid out. I wanted to lose the shotgun feel,” Sitkin said “I grew up in a house with a lot of open space.”

Save for a front room that spanned the width of the house, they gutted the house to the studs and bulldozed the yard.

As a graphic designer, instructor with the Loyola University design program and principal behind Thought Partner design studio, Sitkin was well-equipped to tackle the job. She planned the house and worked with Kim Allen, of the husband-and-wife-run firm Studio BKA Architects, to bring her vision to fruition.

A battle ensued between the homeowners and the Historic District Landmarks Commission over the home’s gutter spouts, which were attached to the porch’s columns. They could be seen from the street, so they had to remove them.

They met no resistance in banishing the home’s grim beige exterior in favor of a warm blush color with white

trim and terra cotta-colored shutters.

A stunning transformation

The interior transformation into a 3,696-square-foot home is stunning.

The drywall in the front room, which now serves as a library, was removed to expose the beams in the 10-foot ceiling. Tongue-and-groove paneling was added between the rafters to add texture and visual interest, the entirety of which was painted a rich dusty coral.

In a nod to Sitkin’s standing as the daughter of Harvard and Boston University librarians, built-in floor-to-ceiling bookcases with a functional

Sitkin designed the raised pool, embracing the opportunity to create

along the raised edges. ‘It’s a statement,’ she said.

interest

Like all of the baths in the SitkinCortopassi home, the primary bath features wainscoting and pegs for functionality, and birdthemed wallpaper The double lavatory was custommade.

library ladder surround an existing window

Sitkin had a crush-worthy, grass-green velvet sectional sofa custom-made by Interior Define.

“My grandmother always had a green velvet sofa,” she said.

The couch faces a walldominating charcoal drawing she created back in her college days. Existing double-hung windows bathe the room in natural light, creating a loving habitat for a thriving collection of tropical houseplants.

“This is definitely my room,” Sitkin said. “Everything in it is personal. There is rarely more than one person at a time in here — doing homework, reading, taking a nap.”

Taller doors, double fireplace

The thresholds throughout the home were enlarged to the older, taller openings that a previous homeowner had reduced during a flip. The openings were framed with Greek Revival-style casings.

The renovation lost a bedroom on the home’s eastern side to open the space to the dining room on the opposite side. The double fireplace dividing the two rooms was retained. A thick beam was installed in the ceiling to avoid the visual clutter of columns. Walls at the rear of the din-

Sitkin designed her Irish Channel home for maximum flow between indoors and out. The 52-foot porch offers comfortable seating and entertaining

leading from the dining room, kitchen, stairwell and the family’s private area.

The porch overlooks a graceful swimming pool and waterfall that Sitkin designed and installed two years after the interior renovation was completed.

“I used the porch to figure out the pool and the yard,” said Sitkin, an outdoor and garden enthusiast. “I call the pool ‘my giant fountain.’ I love the sound and the calm it brings.

“One of the things I love about living here is the whole tropical thing. I always wanted to live somewhere with palm trees. To have one in my yard is thrilling to me.

“It was just so easy to move here after living in New York for so long. So easy making friends, building community.”

Sitkin has found community around the neighborhood’s hub, Pete’s.

“My neighbor is one of the owners; she makes red beans every Monday and gives them out,” Sitkin said.

ing room and what is now a family room were removed to create an open kitchen that spans the width of the house. It is divided from the other spaces by a 14-foot seated island, 10 feet of which is topped with black Caesarstone composite, the remainder with

butcher block. The cabinet frames were picked up from Ikea, the fronts replaced with smoke-stained oak fronts from Copenhagen, Denmark-based Reform.

“This is 100% the heart of the home,” Sitkin said.

A driving force behind

Sitkin’s desire for a double lot was indoor-outdoor flow. Commencing just beyond the library and an adjacent entry foyer, a 52-foot-long, 8-foot-wide porch now spans the western side of the house and is accessible via a series of custom-made French doors

“I feel like people here know how to live and enjoy life. People want to hang out and socialize.

“We hear so much about what the world needs right now is community, that we are too isolated. Community right outside the door is what we have here.”

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QueenAnnemansion

$1,650,000

BY VICTOR ANDREWS Staff writer

The homeonWebster Street is, pardon the pun, adictionary definition of refined living in Uptown New Orleans.

The 1903 dwelling just off St. Charles Avenue and near AudubonPark has been a cherished family home for more thanahalf-century,well cared-for and packed withinteresting details thatblend the timeless attraction of vintage style with the ease of contemporary living in threestories for $1.74 million.

With four bedrooms and more thanfour baths, the house has more than4,600 square feet of flexible space situated in asought-after sectorofthe city.

Fromfirst glance, 1566 Webster St. promises interest and

style with unusual anglesand almost whimsical touches. The Queen Anne structure, with grandporch that extends from thefrontand wrapsaround the side of thehouse, makes asuit-

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in the kitchen, anchored by a plethora of cabinets in rich wood. The island holds a gas cooktop with a stainless hood, plus plenty of storage. The dark appliances dovetail well with the rich cabinets, all set off in bright natural light from the pair of French doors with glass transoms over the back just beyond the breakfast area. The doors lead to an intimate deck just beyond, perfect for morning coffee or a pre-dinner cocktail.

a grand space for al fresco entertaining.

The garage easily holds two vehicles and plenty of storage as well. And the home has a generator.

The residence is listed by

A den on the third floor gets plenty of light from a skylight and interesting windows, with a bedroom behind double French doors for a private haven.

able landing pad for entree into the home and to take advantage of the majestic landscaping that frames the edifice.

The double wooden front doors with glass transom open onto a generous foyer with rich wood floors and a rising staircase that leads to the upper floors A power room with a stunning oval stained glass window, is tucked conveniently under the stairs.

To the right through pocket doors, the formal living room boasts a bayed wall of windows that looks out over the front, with a marble-surrounded fireplace and additional windows on

the side.

Through more pocket doors, the space expands into the dining room which also features a bayed wall of windows to the side. The combination of the two rooms is a bright and elegant space for receiving guests and entertaining.

Across the hall from the dining room is a stately study with refined cabinetry and shelves for intimate conversations or casual gatherings. It also has a bayed wall of windows, with one side opening onto the side porch.

An island sits prominently

From the kitchen, a back staircase leads up but a side landing leads to a mudroom off of the rear entrance at the garage. The landing also holds the ground floor entrance to the home’s elevator.

The bedrooms occupy the second and third floors, with the primary bedroom having a front-of-house view and matching bayed wall to the living room. A spacious sleeping chamber connects to the primary bath through a closet with an impressive array of built-in shelving and vanity space.

The primary bath gets bathed in natural light form a floorlength window with shutters for privacy, with a large tub and shower for refreshing and relaxation.

Pocket doors from the bedroom also lead into a flexible space that can serve as a sitting room or additional bedroom or nursery, with an en suite that blends vintage style with contemporary elements like a standing shower with marble seat.

Two additional bedrooms share a hall bath, with the back bedroom also housing the elevator

The third for space is a haven unto itself, taking full advantage of the intricacies of the roofline and the unique window shapes for interest and light. A roomy den has a skylight keeping the space bright.

Through a double set of French doors is the sleeping chamber and the en suite with a standing shower.

Outside, the cloistered backyard features a large brick patio plus the deck off of the kitchen,

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TRANSFERS ISSUED SEPT. 5-9

DISTRICT 1

ANNUNCIATION ST. 1238 A-B:

$355,000, Abdel Rahman Hamideh to Jensen Leflore.

POEYFARRE ST. 920, UNIT 405: $264,500, Patrick Brian Bell Joseph to Jennifer Munns and Justin Munns.

S. TELEMACHUS ST. 304: $410,000, Lisa A. Schneider to Elizabeth Gosciniak.

TULANE AVE. 1111: $100, CBT Investors LLC to Bryan Seidensticker and Elaina Duvall.

DISTRICT 2

ALLEN TOUSSAINT BLVD. 961:

$370,000, Dziem T. Nguyen, Dziep

Nezarati, Dzung N. Adams, Khiet Do Nguyen, Quan D. Nguyen, Quang D. Nguyen, Quoc D.

S. WREN ST. 73: $193,000, Joan Williams Pearson to Gnann Williams Cather.

WREN ST. 14: $390,000, Charles Noel Jonau Jr. and Laura Murphy Jonau to Mark Landry and Tara Theriot Landry.

DISTRICT 3

BARTHOLOMEW ST. 927: $549,000, Brian Michael Jarreau and Magdalena Budziakowska Jarreau to Chad K. Harper Mencer and Mitchel A. Mencer Harper.

BREVARD AVE. 8007: $232,000, LVS Title Trust VI to Danyell Spencer.

BURGUNDY ST. 2508: $265,000, Scott Martin to Jeffrey Steven Supak.

Nguyen and Quynh D. Nguyen to Justin Clifford Toepfer and Scarlett Zelaya Toepfer.

CRANE ST. 42-44: $375,000, Donna Cusimano Marino to Elizabeth Evans Klein.

EGRET ST. 41: $650,000, Adrienne Woods Pounds and Kirt M Pounds to Randall B. Currie and Rebecca Johnson Currie.

GEN. HAIG ST. 5878: $960,000, Frederick E. Yorsch and Jami Lavicka Yorsch to Corey S. LeBlanc and Jessica Hunt LeBlanc.

GOV. NICHOLLS ST. 1501-1503: $700,000, Joseph P. MacAluso to Gerald C. Morris and Suzanne Kelly Morris.

HAWTHORNE PLACE 5472:

$347,000, Dolores M. Oustalet and John T. Oustalet Jr. to Laura Eve Welch.

N. TONTI ST. 1301: $800,000, Alton L. Cook and Carey C. Beckham to David E. Villarrubia.

RAIL ST. 19: $585,000, Monique A. House to Jeffrey F. Anderson.

CHEF MENTEUR HIGHWAY 13044: no value stated, Dale Martin Smith to Bret A. Baltz.

CHEF MENTEUR HIGHWAY 13100:

$175,000, Charitable Adult Rides & Services Inc. to ER Catering LLC.

CHEF MENTEUR HIGHWAY 26300:

$291,000, Willis irrevocable trust to Cindy Graves Creel and James Randolph Creel.

CHEF MENTEUR HIGHWAY 25920: donation, no value stated, Geraldine Diane Reed to Faith Holifield.

CURRAN BLVD. 6730: $168,500, Gail Johnson Joseph to Valerie West.

CURRAN ROAD 12710: donation, no value stated, Helen Corley to Stephanie Corley.

DAUPHINE ST. 2710: $681,000, Aira Vehaskari Seiro and Klaus Seiro to David Bracken Fenwick Schuler and Elissa B. Schuler and Adair Schuler.

DAUPHINE ST. 5428-5430: $185,000, Stephanie Butler Self to Anton Louis Cambre Jr.

DESLONDE ST. 2034: $140,000, Claudine Forsythe to Robert H.

Armstrong.

DORCHESTER ST. 6911: $100,000, Ishesa C. McDougle King to Ishesa Mcdougle LLC.

DREUX AVE. 4823: $325,000, Lance Theard to Shamichael Charles.

DREUX ST. 7109: $172,000, Channel Reni Clivens Smith to Donnell Terell Russell.

EMORY ROAD 14812: $150,000, Venice Scott Wallace to Daneetra Alerielle Bailey Kelly.

FRANCE ST. 1837-39: $351,000, CJG Property Management Group LLC to Cedric Jerome Dark Jr.

KINGSPORT BLVD. 7692: $87,250, Cedric Kyle Wilson to M&S General Contracting LLC.

LAFON DRIVE 4949: donation, no value stated, Alton M. Lombard Jr., Danielle Lombard Sims, Rachelle Lombard Davis and Tanya Lombard to Geraldine Richard Lombard.

LIZARDI ST. 2319: $175,000, St. Bernard Project Inc. to Jamecia Fall Encalade.

MARQUIS ST. 7533: $225,000, Floria Washington and James Washington to Corrinthia Bee.

N. MIRO ST. 1624-26: $105,000, Seth M. Paddock to Prime Housing LLC.

N. RAMPART ST. 5428: $270,000, Brendan T. Turrill to Christopher James Wesseln and Yolanda Esteban Galan Wesseln.

PAINTERS ST. 4601: donation, no value stated, Brenda M. Barre Robertson to Akili Franklin.

PAUL MORPHY ST. 1622-24: $125,000, Byron E. Brown and Cynthia N. Brown to 1622 Paul Morphy LLC.

PORTAGE PLACE 120: $145,000, Augustine Chapman, Corey Chapman and Melissa Chapman Causey to Giancarlo D’Agostaro.

PRIMROSE DRIVE 7733: $160,000, Vaughn R. Lazarus to Jacque M. Lazarus.

ROYAL ST. 2315: $250,000, Gary G. Deleaumont and Robert Thomas Legg to Frederick R. Sykes and Lindy A. Picou Sykes.

SERE ST. 2285: $275,000, AC Properties & Holdings Enterprise LLC to Leonard Lee Breaux Jr.

SOLDIERS ST. 1348: $100, Jay Michael Dittmar and Paul E. Dittmar Jr. to Nola Buys Houses LLC.

SOLDIERS ST. 1366: $100, Jay Michael Dittmar, Paul E. Dittmar Jr. and Verna Kathleen Miles to Nola Buys Houses LLC.

SPAIN ST. 4616: donation, no value stated, Brenda Burke McGrew to Sylvester Lee McGrew Jr.

TIMOLEON ST. 2137-39: $225,000, Elbert R. Thomas Jr. and Monita A. Lamb Thomas to Tim Lee LLC. TOURO ST. 1618-20: $92,500, RMAC

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Trust Series 2016-HC-CTT to Shantrel Ward Shawand WillieShaw.

TOURO ST.1809-11: $190,000, Rene Yost to Chloe Washington.

WARRINGTONDRIVE 5740: $308,000, Arleen Amadeo Antoine to Jenelle D. Ferrouillet and Joshua J. Ferrouillet.

WERNER DRIVE 4440: $55,000, PCOF Properties LLCtoDenk Properties LLC.

WILSON AVE. 4127: $15,000, Jose Juarez LLCtoDeybir E. Maldonado Solorzano.

DISTRICT 4

EIGHTH ST.820: no valuestated, Howard Benjamin Hackerand Suzanne ReimanHacker to Eighth Street InvestorsLLC

FOURTH ST.1128: $100, TheodoreThomas Reese to Charlotte Simpson Menardand Toby Thomas Menard.

JACKSON AVE. 3226-3228: $10,000, BKDJInvestmentLLC to Michael Crane.

NINTH ST.1027-1029: $700,000, Sundmaker Investment Properties LLCtoAmi ArdWilliams and Louis Williams Jr.

PHILIP ST.447: $270,000,Jeremy W. Grannan to Adam Gilbert Whitlock.

ST.CHARLES AVE. 2100: $390,000, Denise FaillLhoste and Freddie Boudreaux Benjamin to Aaron Joseph Johnson.

WASHINGTONAVE. 1629: $198,000, 1629 Washington LLCto

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n TRANSFERS FORSEPT.6-11 JEFFERSON

AUDUBON TRACE 502: Mary Constransitch to Lynn A. Tassin, $300,000.

KENNER

ANJOU DRIVE 15: Michelle D. Collins to Dgh Realty LLC, $231,000.

COGNACDRIVE 4152: John A. Lacombe to Guisselle Zeledon, $293,000.

FAIRWAY ST.1608: Victoria Manschot to Patricia A.J. Moses, $230,000.

Gina Casamassima and Valerie Elizabeth Williams.

DISTRICT 5

CARLISLE COURT5761: $165,000, Thu My Nguyen and Viet T. Tran Nguyen to Twana Dondell Breland.

DIANA ST.423: $389,000, Empower Investments of LA LLCtoAntoinette Hartford.

ERIE ST.1730: $90,000, Versa Mae Rounds to Felicia Bloodsaw.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER ROAD 9660: $195,000, TaylorM.Grimm to Patricia Grace.

PATTERSON ST.7219: $60,000, SalvadoreMurphyCalcagno to AmyNicoleRobertand Lawrence Christopher Robert.

PEONY ST.6426: $180,000, Helen Jones Milligan and TheodoreMilligan to Miala ColombMederic.

SEGUIN ST.505-507: $299,000, Hugh C. Miles andJessica L. Inkley Miles to Christopher Gerencser.

SOMERSET DRIVE 2611: $180,000, EdwardSpencer Jr.toPauline Barker Fountain.

DISTRICT 6

ANTONINE ST.715-17: $435,000, Elizabeth L. Hall to Lane Blessey Watkins.

ARABELLA ST.1035: $1,115,000, John R.Mansfield toNicole Lindsey King Cavallari and Robert Carey King Sr

CAMP ST.4122: $585,000, Laura Cecilia Ladrillono Holland and Martin H. Holland to KoiFish LLC.

DELACHAISE ST.1722-24: $760,000, Christopher Owen Edwards, Mae Fern Schroeder Edwards and Steven Ralph Schroeder to Bran-

don Higgins and Susan Hargrave Higgins.

FOUCHER ST.1623-25: $615,000, Cloyd Investments LLCtoJulie Michelle Gibbs Whittle andMark Forrest Whittle.

GEN. TAYLOR ST.3901-03: $360,000, Brenda McGowanand Christian Fellowship Tabernacle of Praise to Catherine Quynh Anh Nguyen and Victoria Ngoc Hoan Vu Nguyen.

JOSEPH ST.1208: $590,000, Joshua S. Forceand Mara Baumgarten ForcetoSandraParker.

JOSEPH ST.2437: $266,750, Lisa DawesReynolds and Sandra SchwebkeDawes to Bradley Craig Latham.

LAUREL ST.4011: $300,000, Gretchen M. BohlkeStroud and Morgan A. StroudtoBlaine R. Simon

LEONTINE ST.1421: $620,000, Lauren E. Glaser Lamberty to Lorraine Anne Gardella Cahill and William P. Cahill Jr

NAPOLEONAVE.1928-32:

$1,500,000, QuiwaReal Estate LLC to Ashley Staton

ROBERTST. 2521: $260,000, Kemechia M. Jones Sears andRyan Sears to Nashama3LLC.

ST.CHARLES AVE. 4007: donation, no value stated, Raquel Schwankhart Margulis to DavidJ. Margulis.

S. GALVEZST. 3413-131/2: $106,000, AAIARML LLCtoRobert LeeRogers II.

TOLEDANO ST.638: $165,000, AnthonyJulien Jr.and GloriaHill ClantontoPicus Renovations LLC.

TOLEDANO ST.3002: $25,700, City of New Orleans to Upper Hand Investments LLC.

TOLEDANO ST.3030: $315,000,

Huong Thi Thanh Dang Le and My KimLetoBelinda Greene and Shane Jonathan Greene.

VALMONT ST.1027-1029: $385,000, Aimee MarieCoiron Farnet Siegel and Michael Johnson Siegel to Bonilla Brothers LLC.

WEBSTER ST.700: $355,000, Home Bank NA to 700 Webster Street LLC.

WILLOW ST.3420-22: $120,000, Donald Sauer to Alexandra Jacqueline SabhaYoung and Mitchell Ryan Young.

DISTRICT 7

BURDETTE ST.2121: $607,500, KirbyA.Green to Christopher Vacca and Hana ChoyVacca.

DANTE ST.1119: $640,000, Christopher J. Fettweis and Jennifer Celeste LayFettweistoChristopher MichaelCapitelli and Jerilynn Gray Capitelli.

HAYPLACE 230: $480,000, Cynthia Lecler Olivier and Errol J. Olivier to Brett Aiken and Kylie Aiken

LAKE MARINAAVE.300, UNIT 5-D: $483,000, Merrick Turpin Valentino and Vernon AndreValentino to RobertCyBeckerman.

OAKST. 8735-37-39: $815,000, Cecilia Jung Holzenthal and Henry W. Holzenthal to Oak &Eagle Holdings LLC.

S. CLAIBORNE AVE. 8316-18: $125,000, Succession of Benita Williams Maker and Vera Morris Randall to KarenMcComiskey Kea.

W. KENILWORTHST. 228: $304,000, PrestonAndrewDeterman and SierraKaitlin Determan to Jodi Louviere,Kevin Louviere and MadisonClaireLouviere

WILLOW ST.8316: $410,000, Katherine HallBurlison and Stephen Nicholas Burlison to David Harris Heller.

IRISH BEND ROAD 3345: Sharon G. Brach to Gary P. Grashoff, donation, no valuestated.

731SAINT CHARLES

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in theLafayette Square Historic District.Available Unitsrange from 765sfto1583sf w/privatebalconies,garageparking,24hr. lobbyattendant, pool,fitness, courtyards,steel andconcreteconstruction, bldg generator, androofterrace.www.731stcharles.com

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KANSAS AVE. 3013: Michael G. Ibos to Katherine I Grant, donation, no value stated.

LISA AVE. 66: Charles R. Wagner to GI Invest LLC, $167,000.

MARYLAND AVE. 1108: Eric P. Alphonso to One Thousand One Hundred Eight Maryland Ave LLC, $80,000.

SPARTAN LANE 669: George E Gilkers to J&M Real Estate Investors LLC, $156,333.

VILLAGE ROAD 736, UNIT A: Stephen A. Celino to Carolyn

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AVONDALE

CAPITOL DRIVE 345: WAJ Design & Build LLC to Andria T Carter, $179,500.

CHERRYGROVE DRIVE 3620: DSLD LLC to Brenda Ferguson, $275,995.

W. TISH DRIVE 245: Carrington Mortgage Services LLC to Nadine Landry, $149,900.

BRIDGE CITY

EIGHTH ST. 229: Randal L. Landry to Salvador J.H. Sifuentes, $210,000.

S. CHANTE COURT 9012: Angel D.B. Velasquez to Celso I H. Casco, $30,000.

Cassreino, $119,000.

WILLIAMS BLVD. UK 4232, UNIT K: Keith J. Schilleci to Childrens Hair Palace LLC, $100,000.

METAIRIE

ACADEMY DRIVE 4844: Donna Kraus to Desiree Pettus, $200,000. ALTA ST. 1028: Marilyn D. Tortorich to Marilyn M. Wylie, $145,000.

ANDREWS AVE. 613: Timothy S. Mcdonald to Hovsep Dakessian, $479,000.

ARGONNE ST. 4608: Quinlivan Homes LLC to Nicole M. Poissenot, $348,000.

CARNATION AVE. 1617: Quinlivan Homes LLC to Jennifier Guidry,

GRETNA

BEHRMAN HIGHWAY 732, UNIT

C: Lori L. P. Konovodof to Leo J. Palazzo, $34,511.

BELLE MEADE BLVD. 872: Mark Mancuso to William S. Lincoln, $245,000.

HERO DRIVE 3024: Quy Pham to Jacob T. Parker, $255,000.

LAWRENCE DRIVE 809: Mashariki S. Moses to Woodly Alphonse, $161,750.

HARVEY

1545 ABBEY ROAD 1541: Francisco Padias to Rimawi Group LLC, $60,000.

ASTERBROOK COURT 5: Sangeeta H. Juneja to Shirley Fikes-funches, $640,000.

BRECKENRIDGE DRIVE 2205: Leonard T. Albarado Sr. to Restoration Nola LLC, $78,100.

DOLEAC ST. 2113: Jordan Masson

1773-75 N. DORGENOIS STREET

JAZZ FEST- CITYPARK-BAYOU ST.JOHN

$259,000.

CHEROKEE AVE. 1421: Roland A. Raedisch to Kenneth J. Laborde Sr., $320,000.

CLIFFORD DRIVE 3416: Hm Invest LLC to Carolyn Treuting, $382,500.

COLONY PLACE 815: Cag National Fund III LLC to Yoselie A. Castaneda, $195,500.

COLONY PLACE 1404: Tina M. Killian to Bryant M. Riles, $265,000.

GREEN ACRES ROAD 2400: Jodi M. Salsbury to Two Thousand Four Hundred Green Acres LLC, $232,500.

HESSMER AVE. U217 4218: Joseph F. Torres Jr. to Wang Worldwide Rentals LLC, $68,000.

ITHACA ST. 7013: New Orleans

Property Ventures Inc. to Bailey J. Jordan, $300,000.

JASPER ST. 4536: Tracy Bordelon to Susana E. Hernandez, $235,305.

LAKE AVE. 1110: Pamela Oconner to Jorge A. Castillo, $105,000.

LUCILLE AVE. 1208: Leiriane Gripp to Hai V N. Tran, $470,000.

NORTH STARRETT ROAD 1217: KH Flip LLC to Alyson Giesemann, $335,000.

PASADENA AVE. U303 2513: Marsha L. Smith to Wang Worldwide Rentals LLC, $75,000.

PHOSPHOR AVE. 1024: Bonnabel Properties Inc. to Wayne J. Hawkins, $2,858.

PHOSPHOR AVE. 1028: Bonnabel Properties Inc. to Hawkins Rental LLC, $2,141.

POPLAR ST. 1913: Alan C. Roberts to KB4 Investments LLC, $350,000.

PURDUE DRIVE 4517: Troy C. Croal to Emily B. Levy, $298,000.

ROMAN ST. 3009: Jonathan Mathes to Georgia Roseberry, $430,000.

TAFT PARK 2008: Bertucci Investment Group LLC to Antonio Derosa, $312,500.

VELMA ST. 1400: Joan M. Kastner to Frank Venegas Jr., $287,500.

WHITNEY PLACE U715 2704: Audrey Gonzales to Albert Katz, $187,000.

WILSON DRIVE 5220: Marilyn F. Rogers to G. Indiana Brenes, $250,000.

WideCraftsman double in fun area. Liveon one side-collect $1500+rentorall rental units.

SS appls. 2bds-2 bathsperside 60 X109 lotw/2 drvwys. Wood floors, Chef’sKitchen & CentralA&H.

Babineaux &Babineaux Partners Linda Babineaux 504-957-8014 (c) J. Babineaux 504-813-8460 (c) At Latter &Blum-Compass Uptown-MapleOfc,7934Maple St N.O.,LA70118|504-861-7575 (O)

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to New Orleans Property Ventures Inc., $78,500.

GREFER AVE. 479: James C. Richard Jr. to Naf Cash LLC, $147,200.

N. HARPER DRIVE 2232: Next Step Rental 1. LLC to Mohammad F. Mohammad, $71,000.

PAIGE JANETTE DRIVE 2405: Demond Johnson to Noreen W. Johnson, donation, no value stated.

LAFITTE

COUEVAS ST. 5112: Edward J. III Terrel to Edward J. III Terrel, $18,650.

MARRERO

15TH ST. 4512: Keith J. Lefevre to Jared K. Lefevre, donation, no value stated.

BARATARIA BLVD. 741: Fred T. Tuhro to Miquel Q. Infante, $260,000.

BAYOU BLEU DRIVE 2712: Dorian

C. Jones to Deatrice B. Givens, $236,000.

GRILLETTA COURT 3944: Keith J. Lefevre to Diane L. Aliff, donation, no value stated.

HARDWOOD DRIVE 2713: Shannon B. Bernard to Lelia G. Robichaux, donation, no value stated.

NOTTINGHAM DRIVE 1677: Laquerita L. Richard to Vanessa Pierre, $293,000.

NOTTINGHAM DRIVE 1692: Tara Thibodeaux to Viola Abraham, $320,000.

TERRYTOWN

FARMINGTON PLACE 1937: Kenneth N. George to Brerin Investments LLC, $70,000.

WAGGAMAN

AZALEA DRIVE 358: Sun West Mortgage Co. Inc. to Shenard L. Clerk, $110,000.

ELIZABETH (LIBBIE) REISS,REALTOR

CELL:504-813-1102

OFFICE:504-895-4663 elizabeth.reiss@compass.com•www.compass.com 2734 Prytania St NewOrleans,LA70130

Historic,totally renovated 3-story home with balconiesoverlooking Royaland Esplanade. Gated 2-car driveway.5 bed/3.5 bath

Largeoffice/warehousebetween JeffersonHwy andRiver Road (7500 sq ft). First floora/c warehouse and furnishedoffices. Freightelevator, M-1, excellentcond.

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ABITA SPRINGS

BURVANT ST. 23284: John C. Burdine to Gregory W. Harmeyer and Carolyn O’Donnell Harmeyer, $230,000.

CLIPPER PLACE 71164: Derek S. Granger to Camron A. Sanchez and Rylee J. Richard, $233,000. HILLCREST COUNTRY CLUB SUBDIVISION, LOTS 2, 19, 20, SQUARE 18: Succession of Patricia Armand to Dane C. Humphries and Charity A. Cooper, $15,000.

HILLCREST COUNTRY CLUB SUBDIVISION, LOTS 61, 62, SQUARE 5: Trio Ventures LLC to Dupont Quality Homes LLC, $20,000.

HILLCREST COUNTRY CLUB SUBDIVISION, LOTS 64-74, SQUARE 5: Trio Ventures LLC to Dupont Quality Homes LLC, $110,000.

MONEY HILL PARKWAY 79376: Richard E. Rhodes and Mandy N. Rhodes to Alan E. Knight and Regina L. Knight, $1,375,000.

NEAR ABITA SPRINGS, PORTION OF GROUND: Dianna L. Taylor to Desmond G. LaBostrie and Serena N. Moore, donation, no value stated.

NEAR ABITA SPRINGS, PORTION OF GROUND: Don A. McMath and Deborah M. McMath to Robert E. Smith and Emily J. Smith, $495,000.

SOUTHEAST DIVISION OF ABITA SPRINGS, LOT 10A, SQUARE 20: Mark & Kasey LLC to Michael S. Clark and Lonica Huff Clark, $128,000.

COVINGTON

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Cash LLC, $540,000.

AVE. ST. GERMAIN 1128: John P

Jude Catalanatto and Meghan S. Catalanatto to Mark B. Jacobs and Janet L. Jacobs, $575,000.

B ST. 70400: Hannah P. Levendowski to Cameron Meeks and Katherine Meeks, $230,000.

BOMOKA ROAD 17125: Elaine E. Beyer to Roland Leavell III and Mary E. Leavell, $750,000.

BRADBURY PLACE 2337: Ronald W. Hisel and Stacy L. Hisel to Evan M. Knight, $445,000.

BUCKTHORNE PLACE 500: Nicholas A. Orozco and Mallory M. Orozco to Hannah E. Loupe, $260,000.

CAMPUS LANE 84650: Marlon G. Hunt to John-Paul Jude Catalanatto, $345,000.

COLONIAL PINNACLE NORD DU LAC SUBDIVISION, PORTION OF GROUND: Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc. to Costco Wholesale Corp., $850,000.

COTTONWOOD CREEK LANE 412: Brian K. Adams and Anne M. Adams to Brad Girard and Annabel Girard, $565,000.

COUNTRYSIDE SUBDIVISION, LOT 29: Arthur T. Igleharte to Greg A. Igleharte and Susan L. Igleharte, $44,900.

E. FIFTH AVE. 205: Albert Aparicio Jr. to Peggy Diana Anderson and Roy Gilbert, $351,785.

HYACINTH DRIVE 57: Margaret A. Haas to Ryan G. Juneau and Jacquelyn R. Juneau, $290,000.

JENKINS ROAD 69325: Dennis J. Farve Jr. and Theresa M. Farve to Callie M. Farve, $38,700

JESSIE HYATT ROAD 79100: Black & Gold Properties LLC to Victoriann E. Cotton, $275,000.

KANAWHA COURT 132: Jerilynne B. Theriot to Ricky D. Miller and Beth Miller, $455,000.

LONGLEAF DRIVE 22476: Succession of Francis Antonio A. Menendez and Emogene May P. Mendendez to Brian J. Zawodniak and Brenda D. Zawodniak, $410,000.

MAISON DRIVE 5: Thomas A. Talbott to Craig J. Watler Jr., $239,000.

MAISON DU LAC SUBDIVISION, LOT 64: John E. Snell and Doris A. Rainey Snell to Daniel A. Talbot II and Colette D. Talbot, $644,500.

NATCHEZ LOOP 1530: Susan M. Shaw to Marion D. Oubre and Stephen G. Oubre, $475,000.

NORTHPARK BLVD. 202: Ryan J. Schuler and Kristina Schuler

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to Darren P. Davis and Tara A. Williams-Davis, $560,000.

RIVER ROAD 74724: James A. Prather and Michelle F. Prather to Arthur P. Newell and Paula J. Newell, $755,325.

ROSALIE COURT 1829: DSLD Homes LLC to Samuel Mansfield and Brooke Mansfield, $357,210.

ROSALIE COURT 1832: DSLD Homes LLC to Earl J. Shackelford Jr. and Dani I. Shackelford, $365,980.

RUE DE FONTAINE 1529: Robert J. Amato and Lindsay Amato to Dominick Drago and Isabella R. Dunbar, $550,000.

RUE PETITE 320: Paulette Cali to Errol J. Olivier and Cynthia L. Olivier, $429,900.

S. FITZMORRIS ROAD 19532: Tonia E. Nolan Swint to Christopher Guillot, $260,000.

S. HARRISON ST. 609: Nine Thirteen LLC to 609 S. Harrison LLC, $290,000

S. LAKESHORE DRIVE 14131: Scott D. Brownell and Stacie F Brownell to Paul B. Bellard and Kathleen T. Bellard, $529,990.

S. MADISON ST. 904: Warren J. Salles Jr. Family Trust to Osman Rodas and Penelope Rodas, $654,069

TAMMANY HILLS SUBDIVSION, LOTS 32, 34, SQUARE 56: Timothy Joubert to Jonah R. Wood and Jillian J. Wood, $210,000.

TERRA BELLA SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1A12, LOT 63: Terra Bella Group LLC to Hagan & Banks Development LLC, $107,500.

THREE RIVERS ROAD 18143: Joshua C. Hastings and Christina L. Hastings to Gregory A. Scarpelli and Noelle P. Scarpelli, $100 and other good and valuable consideration.

VERSAILLES SUBDIVISION, PHASE 5C, LOT 211: Succession of Deanna S. Laurent, Wendell J. Laurent and Merrill J. Laurent to William R. Burrall and Carol K. Burrall, $435,000.

W. 10TH AVE. 325: Blakley Kymen to Michael A. Granville Burton and Danna Lea Palmisano Burton, $100,000.

W. 25TH AVE. 710: Matthew Morvant to Christian T. Boutwell and Callie Boutwell, $385,000.

W. NINTH AVE. 906: Roland Q. Leavell III and Mary M. Leavell to Jacob Phillips and Lindsay E. Cooper Phillips, $419,000.

WATERCROSS ESTATES, PHASE 2, LOT 9: Haaswood Development LLC to Edward P. Schauder, $598,000.

WAX MYRTLE LANE 28: Calvin A. Klein II and Nicholle R. Klein to Shane J. Guidry, $1,000,000.

WESTON GLEN SUBDIVISION, PHASE 2A, LOT 32: Darren M. Scales to Brian P. Adams, $520,000.

WOODBLUFF DRIVE 11557: Brennan M. Tuminaro and Meaghan L LaFerrara Tuminaro to Steven J. Palmisano, $282,000.

FOLSOM

BLEU LAKE HILLS ESTATES, PHASE 2, LOT 57: Wesley R. Little and Rita T. Little to American International Relocation Solutions LLC, $560,000.

BLEU LAKE HILLS ESTATES, PHASE 2, LOT 57: American International Relocation Solutions LLC to Jon DiMiceli and Connie S. Rick DiMiceli, $560,000.

BLEU LAKE HILLS ESTATES, PHASE 3, LOT 86: Candace C. Foster to Norris J. Bethancourt and Peggy Oalmann Bethancourt,

$24,000.

NEAR FOLSOM, PORTION OF GROUND: 4 C’S Land Management LLC to Michael V. Audibert, $190,000.

NEAR FOLSOM, PORTION OF GROUND: Robin F. Jarrell to Darrell C. Fauntleroy, $166,770.

NEAR FOLSOM, PORTION OF GROUND: Daton Contracting LLC to Seth G. Fauntleroy, $10,000.

NEAR FOLSOM, PORTION OF GROUND: Todd L. Spell to John Snell and Doris A. Snell, $580,000.

LACOMBE

EQUITANA LANE 62898: AHAV Ranch LLC to Ryan Hanson, $625,000.

KRENTEL ROAD 28661: Koinos Properties LLC to Southern Bayou Real Estate LLC, $281,000.

MILDRED DRIVE 26321: Randall L. Foto and Monique S. Foto to Glenn I. Pearson and Sara M. Laborde Pearson, $315,000.

NEAR LACOMBE, PORTION OF GROUND: Lauren K. Sanders to Hernandez R. Smith, donation, no value stated.

SUNSET OAK BLVD. 60397: DSLD Homes LLC to Nina Ray Leoja and Sharmaine E. Herradura, $265,355.

TRIBUTE DRIVE 65369: Taylor 3R LLC to John S. Juul and Jorgette L. Martinez Juul, $244,000.

MADISONVILLE

CALUMET DRIVE 219: Melissa A. Gilbert to Albert O’Connell and Helen M. Fulgezi, $315,000.

FOX SPARROW LOOP 1085: Damien C. White to Miracle Interior Design LLC, $396,000.

JACKSON COURT 777: Ashley

Dutel to James Querner and Christine Querner, $335,000.

MICAH LANE 225: Byron A. Diaz and Nacole N. Nurdin Diaz to Calvin A. Klein II and Nicholle Klein, $998,000.

PENCARROW CIRCLE 441: Joseph W. Steffen and Danielle T. Steffen to Robin Graham Inman and Ann’Lee E. Inman, $815,000.

PINE GROVE LOOP 661: Jonathan R. Walker and Eda A. Walker to Keith Vicknair and Kristie Vicknair, $545,000.

RAIFORD OAKS SUBDIVISION, PHASE 2A, LOT 51: Nestwell Properties LLC to Brennan M. Tuminaro and Meagahn L. Tuminaro, $329,900.

SPIKE DRIVE 71777: DSLD Homes LLC to Ashley Theriot, $209,790.

SPIKE DRIVE 71607: DSLD Homes LLC to Daniela M. Reyes Nolasco, $235,495.

SPIKE DRIVE 71664: DSLD Homes LLC to Rashard L. Smith, $211,020. SPIKE DRIVE 71688: DSLD Homes LLC to Tyler J. Baumy, $215,165. WHITE HERON DRIVE 101: Kirk J. Meyer and Lori B. Meyer to Ellis Taylor, $258,500.

MANDEVILLE

ACADIAN LANE 104: Roy C. Cheatwood and Cynthia M. Cheatwood to Richard Looper III and Danielle Ditoro Looper, $642,500.

ADAIR ST. 728: Conbeth Development LLC to Charles R. Garrison Jr., $750,000.

ARIES DRIVE 500, UNIT 2-C: Allyson K. Howie to Erin R. Schaumburg, $155,000.

BROOKSIDE DRIVE 171: Sherman D. Levey and Carol W. Levey

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to William Goodwin andMary Adams Goodwin,$658,000.

CEDARWOOD DRIVE 508: Renee M. Ancelet to Tina CorreroMusacchia, $160,000.

CHEVREUIL ST.739: Kyle S. Smith and Misti M. Smith to Nicole A. Gallaty,$232,500.

COURS CARSON ST.2436: Troy J. Roddy and Erin E. Voisin Roddy to AndriiKekin and Oksana Kekin, $310,000.

FAIRFIELD DRIVE 1231: KeithJ Vicknair and Kristie M. Vicknair to Collin J. Jilbert, $409,900.

FOUNTAINS PARK BLVD.256: BarbaraR.HeberttoSandra K. Morgan Jones, $245,000.

GRANDE MAISON BLVD.240: Deborah M. Wilder to Charles E. Wilder, donation, no value stated.

GRANDE MAISON SUBDIVISION, PHASE 3C, LOT167: MJB Construction LLCtoChristian P. Spansel and SamanthaM. Spansel, $727,200.

GRANDE MAISON SUBDIVISION, PHASE 3C, LOT168: Grande Maison Development LLCtoMJB Construction LLC, $79,000.

GRANDE MAISON SUBDIVISION, PHASE 3C, LOT220: Grande Maison Development LLCtoSean Bennett Custom Homes LLC, $80,000.

HERMITAGEONTHE LAKE SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1, LOT11: Seymour B. Joseph IV and Kristin F. Joseph to TCTK Properties LLC, $155,000.

HERMITAGEONTHE LAKE SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1, LOT11:

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Seymour B. Joseph IV and Kristin F. Joseph to TCTK Properties LLC, $155,000.

JUNIPER COURT136: Lakeshore HomesLLC to David Helm Franks and Claudia L. Franks, $325,000.

PINTAIL TRACE 10: Stephen F. Stumpf Jr. to Paul E. Morain Jr. and Angela T. Battaglia Morain, $442,000

SANDRA DEL MAR DRIVE 170: EVETS LLCtoCody A. Baas, $110,000.

TREADAWAY ST.22465: Treadaway Properties LLCtoEmma L. Hubert, $377,400.

WINONA DRIVE 917: Louis A. Cannizzaroand Keriann P. Cannizzaro to Brett Bachemin and Casey Sanchez Bachemin,$580,000.

PEARLRIVER

FIELDERLANE64332: Carol A. McMillen to Robert C. Schneida, donation, no valuestated.

FIELDERLANE64332: Robert C. Schneida and Deborah Schneida to BNDVenturesLLC,donation, no value stated.

HAYESST. 65041: Thomas M. Baker to Keaton J. Lytle, $189,000.

HUDSON ST.38464: Catherine W. EslerEstate, Robert S. Esler,John M. Esler and Joseph K. Esler Jr.to C&CFactory LLC, $220,000.

NEAR PEARL RIVER, PORTION OF GROUND: Kyle R. Singletaryand Dan R. Singletary to Zachary J. Maes and Madeline Palliser, $135,000.

TAYLOR FARMS ROAD 64293: DSLD HomesLLC to Randolph Fenbyand MariaFenby,$327,095.

VIRGINIA DRIVE 64224: Chad Dean Heinz toJohnP.Rushe and Glenda H. Rushe, $415,000. YEARLING LOOP 330: KimberlyM.

Avery to Jason Cobb and Penny Cobb, $165,000.

SLIDELL

AZORES DRIVE 231: Caesar C. Ross III to MarkPatrzalek and Carol Patrzalek, $689,500.

BIRDIE DRIVE 46, UNIT8-B: Lindsey K. NorristoPhillip J. Pier and DovieL.Pier,donation, no value stated.

BLACKFINCOVE215: Robert B. Eastmanand JeriL.Kirkwood EastmantoJeffrey Truong and Samantha C. Donoso,$289,000.

BLUE RIDGE DRIVE 56116: DavidJ Delahoussaye and Susan O. Delahoussaye to Bradley O. Moore, $138,000.

BRYANDRIVE 106: Succession of Audrey L. Bunch and George H. Bunch III to George H. Bunch IV and Frances R. Bunch, $145,000.

BYPASS BREEZE DRIVE 5365: D.R. Horton Inc.-Gulf CoasttoElydia P. Ketchens, $304,900.

BYPASS BREEZE DRIVE 5369: D.R. Horton Inc.-Gulf CoasttoVicente A. Rosa and Livia Da SilvaMattos, $294,870.

CAMPANA LANE 34312: DSLD Homes LLCtoRyanS.Smith, $252,750.

CARDINAL DRIVE 321: DavidC. Fernandez, Maria A. Fernandez Knight, succession of Julie Neal Lewis and others to BNJS Real EstateLLC,$166,000.

CASTINE COVE 107: Lana M. Ford to Stephen N. Ardoin and Jequil S. Louis, $285,000.

CLEARWOOD ESTATES,LOT 4: Dalton E. Williams andSandra A. Williams to Melissa Key, $195,000.

DALE DRIVE 611: Rene O. Livas Jr. to Henry Kruse, $170,000.

DEVEREAUX DRIVE 119: Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmenttoQuin E. Barbay and Justice G. Renard, $230,000 and other good and valuable consideration

DUNCAN ST.3233: Stephanie B. Plescia to Jacqueline Root and Rachel Root, $130,950.

FORESTWOOD DRIVE 1316: Ryan C. Gravolet to Jerry O. Thompson III, $10,000.

GOLDEN PHEASANT DRIVE 118: Harold R. Bencaz andCarlyn H. Bencaz to Ryan J. Bonnetand Kathryn S. Bonnet, $320,000.

GOLDENWOOD DRIVE 206: Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing to Secretary of Veterans Affairs, $10 and other good and valuable consideration.

INDEPENDENCE DRIVE 1318: TiffanySantangelo-Cook, John E. Guidryand Barbara W. Guidry to XacharyW.Militello, $295,000.

INDEPENDENCE DRIVE 1418: Lecade Investment Properties Management LLCtoWayne Danna and KimDanna, $320,000.

MAGNOLIAST. 1260: Evangeline B. Pitts to Yodi E. Cabrera, $40,000.

MAPLE AVE. 57404: FFF LLCto Travis White, $58,000.

MARAIS RIVER DRIVE 4698: D.R. Horton Inc.-Gulf CoasttoMiguel Toledano,$231,900.

NICKEL LOOP 119: Steven F. Griggs to Stephanie M. Daniels, $225,000.

NINTH ST.1073: Jeremy F. Pagoada and Colleen R. Montgomery Pagoada to La &LeProperties LLC, $168,000.

NINTH ST.636: Lakeview Loan Servicing LLCtoJ Neto’s Construction LLC, $168,156.

PARK DRIVE 2154: Michael H.

Calamari and Dana D. Calamari to PHL Properties LLC, $115,000. PIN OAKDRIVE 101: Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Jeffrey Lorenz, $171,000.

RICHMOND DRIVE 1524-1530: Gary L. Garrigan to Real Estate Realness LLC, $430,000.

RIVER GARDENS SUBDIVISION, LOTS 19, 20, SQUARE 19: John H. Alsobrooks to Sylvia Davis, $2,000.

ROGER DRIVE 204, BRYANDRIVE 205: TanyaM.Allenand AnthonyW.AllenIItoThomas R. GowanJr. and BarbaraQ.Gowan, $40,000.

RUBICH LANE2009: Lisa H. Nicoletti-Wack to DonaldBernardJr. and Tracey BlanchardBernard, $352,000.

SEAGULL CIRCLE 3812: D.R. HortonInc.-Gulf CoasttoWhitneyM. Allen, $195,000.

ST.PETER ST.4141: Roman G. RizantoBilly J. LaSalle III, $210,000. SUNCRESTSUBDIVISION,PHASE 2, LOT25: Jonathan A. Ezelland Brittney O’Neal EzelltoKaya Dundar and Molly G. Decker, $223,300.

TAMMY DRIVE 101: Jeffrey P. Young to Jayden Ford,$305,000. W. LAKE DRIVE 438: Andrew R. Morse andMelissa K. Guidry Morse to Derek A. Jordan and Sparcle D. Jordan,$277,500.

W. PINEWOOD DRIVE 189: Linnie M. Christy Stasney to Danielle Stasney,$225,000.

WAKE RESERVE ROAD 5413: Joseph A. Thodivil and Bindu J. Thodivil to Shalica Lyons, $385,000.

WELLINGTONLANE 2133: Isaac A. J. Williams to Barry K. Schechter II, $208,000.

WESTMINSTER DRIVE 210: Succession of Gregory Kim Anderson to DaltonLeviSmith, $155,000.

WILLIAM TELL ST.3232: Patrick L. Jedlick to DanielC.Glaser Sr.and Amie AnthonyGlaser,$175,000. YESTER OAKS SUBDIVISION,LOT 95: Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing to 1st Choice Commercial and Residential Environmental Services LLC, $111,500.

SUN/BUSH

LA. 21 77580: Tony P. Wilson and Kelly L. Wilson to Harrison Fontenov and Kathryn Fontenov, $430,000.

NEAR BUSH, PORTION OF GROUND: Kevin M. Hardy and Christopher S. Hardy to Ricky R. Ricks and Rita P. Ricks, $7,500. NEAR BUSH, PORTION OF GROUND: MarciaC.McCune to MFR Services LLC, $116,160.

Billie Jean King stretches to returna smash from tennis vertain Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes on Sept. 20, 1973, in the Houston Astrodome. King wonall three sets 6-4, 6-3,6-3.

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TODAYINHISTORY

By The Associated Press

Today is Saturday,Sept.20, the 263rd day of 2025. There are 102 days left in the year.

Todayinhistory:

On Sept. 20, 1973, in their so-called “Battle of the Sexes,” tennis star Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, in the Houston Astrodome.

Also on this date:

In 1519, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set out from Spain on five ships to find awestern passage to the Spice Islands. (Magellan was killed en route, butone of his ships completed the first circumnavigation of the globe three years later.)

In 1946, the first Cannes Film Festival, lasting 16 days, opened in France.

In 1962, James Meredith, a Black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Democratic Gov.Ross R. Barnett.

In 1964, The Beatles concluded their first full-fledged U.S. tour by performing in acharity concert at the Paramount Theater in New York.

In 1967, the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2was christened by Britain’sQueenElizabeth II in Clydebank, Scotland.

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Dear Annie: Isuffer from severe anxiety over everything. Iam andhavebeen on medication for some time andI do seea therapist, but nothing seems to help.Ihave my share of issues, but my mind alwaysjumpsto the worst possibleoutcomes.

In December, Ihad ahemorrhage. Thedoctors gave me pain medicine and told me it was colitisafter aCT scan. Sincethen, I’veconvinced myself Ihavecolon cancer

On topofthat, Iwas recently diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. Ineed to go backtothe doctor for more testing on my kidneys and colon, but I’m terrifiedand can’tbring myself to go. My mental state issofragile that Ifeel likeI’d fallapart if Iheard badnews. Thepast six years have already been very stressful andhard on me, and Idon’t know how much more I can handle.

Iknowabout“fight or flight,” but is theresuch athing as “freeze”? Because that’show Ifeel. I’m 56, andmost days I can barely getoff the couch. Ifeel sick andfatiguedall the time. When Idrive these days, Ionlygotoplaces I’m used to. I’vegonetothe hospitalseveral times with chest pain, only to be told it was apanic attack or my anxiety.WhenI sawthe doctor

for the hemorrhage last year, Iwas given several referrals, none of which I’ve been able to bring myself to followthrough on.The thought alonemakes me literally shake andget sick, andI have bowelmovements that can last all daylong. Iwasn’t like this ayear ago. Iwas atotally differentperson. Now,evenspeaking to my therapist or psychiatrist over the phone makes me nervous. Afriendofminehas told me it’sbetter to find outifIhave cancer or worse thantosit and worry,which Ibelieve is probably true, butIstill can’t make myself go get rechecked. What can Ido? Who can Italk to? Ican’t control the fear,and I’m terrified. —Paralyzed by Fear Dear Paralyzed: Yes, the “freeze” response is real, just like “fight or flight,” and fromyourletter, it’sclear you’re in the throes of it. Even thesimplest things, like getting off thecouch or making aphone call, are causing severe physical symptoms.That’sdebilitating, anditdeservesyour full attention.

Youalready have apsychiatrist and atherapist, whichis agreat start. But forthemto

truly help, youmust be fully honest with themabout how powerless youfeel.Share with themeverything youwrote in this letter. With the full context, theymay adjust your medication, schedule more frequent sessions or introducedifferent kinds of therapiestohelpyou break this cycle.

And youdon’t have to do this alone. Ask afriend or family member to sit with youwhile youcalltoschedule the followup appointments youneed,orto go with youtothose visits when the time comes.Takeitone step at atime.

At the endofthe day, your friend is absolutely right: Knowledge really is power. As scaryasthe worst-casescenariosfeel in your head,you don’t even know forcertain if there’s anything foryou to be so afraid of.Facing the truth is farbetter thancontinuing to live in limbo Anxiety lovestomakeusspiral, but don’tlet it. Youare stronger thanyouranxiety wants youto believe.Takeback your power.

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