Community can register for East Baton Rouge mayoral candidate forum: What to know [Video]
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Community can register for East Baton Rouge mayoral candidate forum: What to know [Video]

Mayoral candidates, including current mayor Sharon Weston-Broome, along with Ted James, Sid Edwards, Ryan Carter, William Roundtree and Steve Myers, will present their platforms. Topics will include infrastructure improvements, business growth and economic resilience.

St. Tammany Parish Animal Shelter calls off mayday status [Video]
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St. Tammany Parish Animal Shelter calls off mayday status [Video]

SHELTER IS TAKING A DEEP SIGH OF RELIEF AFTER THIS WEEKS MAY DAY SCARE. WELL, THE SHELTER WAS SET TO START EUTHANIZING ANIMALS TODAY. IF THOSE ANIMALS WERE NOT REHOMED IN JUST A MATTER OF DAYS. OUR NORTH SHORE BUREAU REPORTER TAWANDA JONES HAS BEEN UPDATING US ALL WEEK ON THE SHELTERS PROGRESS. SHAWANDA. YEAH, GINA, THE SAINT TAMMANY PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER SAYS THE NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY PULLED OFF A MIRACLE AND PULLED THEM OUT OF MAY DAY MODE AND HAD THEM ABOVE WATER. THE WHOLE COMMUNITY, THE PUBLIC, THE NEWS MEDIA, ALL OF OUR PARTNER ANIMAL ORGANIZATIONS, ALL RALLIED BEHIND US. WE SAVED SOME LIVES. THAT WAS ROB BREMER, THE DIRECTOR OF THE SAINT TAMMANY PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER. REACTING TO THE SUCCESS THE SHELTER SAW OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS. OVER 150 DOGS AND CATS FOUND NEW HOMES, AVOIDING THE DREADED EUTHANIZATION THAT WAS SET TO OCCUR TODAY STEMMING FROM OVERCROWDING. TIFFANY OWNS ALL KINDS OF ANIMALS FROM HORSES AND LIZARD DRAGONS TO DOGS AND CATS. SHE SAYS HER LOVE FOR WILDLIFE BEGAN AT. PLACES LIKE SAINT TAMMANY PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER. IT ACTUALLY STARTED IN PLACES LIKE HERE, WHERE I GOT TO VOLUNTEER AND GET TO MAKE THOSE INTERACTIONS WITH PEOPLE WHO LOVED ANIMALS. JUST THE SAME, AND THEY TAUGHT ME A LOT. AND, YOU KNOW, HAVING PLACES LIKE THIS OPEN AND HAVING A BUDGET TO BE ABLE TO DO THINGS AND OUTREACH WITH THE PUBLIC, ITS VERY IMPORTANT. SUSAN MCGEE HAS RESCUED FOUR DOGS AND TWO CATS. SHE SAYS PLACES LIKE THE ANIMAL SHELTER SERVES THE COMMUNITY IN A SPECIAL WAY. THEY TAKE GOOD CARE OF THE ANIMALS WHEN THEYRE BROUGHT IN, AND THEY DO THEIR BEST TO GET THEM ADOPTED. THEY PROVIDE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER KIND OF CARE THAT THEY NEED WHEN THEY BRING THEM IN. AS AN OPEN ADMISSION SHELTER. WERE NEVER QUITE OUT OF THE WOODS, BUT ALL OF MY STAFF AND ALL THE VOLUNTEERS HERE WERE DEFINITELY ABLE TO BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF. THE SAINT TAMMANY PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER STILL NEEDS MORE HELP. THEY STILL NEED MORE FUNDING TO AVOID SITUATIONS LIKE THE MAY DAY SCARE. THEY HAD EARLIER THIS WEEK. SEE OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE WAYS YOU CAN DONATE. REPORT

Why Fort Smith city director candidates say they should get your vote [Video]
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Why Fort Smith city director candidates say they should get your vote [Video]

Three candidates are running to be the next member of the Fort Smith Board of Directors.Carl Nevin, Russ Bragg and Lee Kemp are seeking the city director Ward 3 position, which represents residents who live in south Fort Smith, in the Fianna Hills and Riley Farm neighborhoods.The current city director, Lavon Morton, is not seeking reelection.”I want some transparency. I want the citizens to know what’s happening in Fort Smith,” said Nevin, who is a retired factory worker and small business owner. “I know what it’s like to work on a budget. I know what it’s like to hire people and have to let them go when they don’t do their job. That’s part of running a business. And part of running the business is at the end of the month, you’ve got to balance those books.”Bragg is a retired executive from OK Foods.”My job was to manage problems. My job was to manage opportunities, to figure out solutions,” Bragg said. “One of the things I bring to the table in this race is 35 years of management, senior level management, decision-making processes, huge budgets, $250 to $350 million a year in budgets. All those working with legislators and experience has really gone to help me going forward.”Kemp is the pastor of Forefront Church in Fort Smith.”I’m going to listen to them (voters) and give them a fair chance. That’s what I can promise,” Kemp said. “I wouldn’t be running if I didn’t think my gifts would be good for this. I believe I am good with conflict resolution. I’ve been known to help many people in this community get through difficult situations in their lives, and I believe I can translate that right into our local government.”Forefront Church has been a local polling center for more than 20 years.Kemp told 40/29 News that he had asked Sebastian County Election Commissioners to choose another voting center location on election day in order to avoid any perceived conflicts of interest.”This is the best way to be above board in light of a lot of current events,” Kemp said.

Site of historic former Sears store an illegal dumping ground [Video]
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Site of historic former Sears store an illegal dumping ground [Video]

The site of a historic former Sears store in Milwaukee has become a massive site for illegal dumping. The once bustling retail area anchored by a Sears at Fond du Lac and North Avenue is now two large vacant buildings and an approximately 6-acre parking lot, littered with dump truck loads of construction waste and other garbage. Who allows this to happen or anything? This is just terrible over here, said Lawrence Harris on Friday as he looked across the piles in the parking lot, which included shingles, toilets, furniture, and discarded mail.Pre-pandemic plans for redevelopment of the site have seemingly fallen through. Harris, who frequents a clubhouse nearby, says a fence that surrounded the site was removed by the owner a few years ago.Thats when people started dumping, Harris said. Inspectors with the Milwaukee Department of Neighborhood Services this week issued several violations to the property owner. They focus on the illegal dumping, and the condition of a building that was once used for auto repairs. Terrible. It looks really bad, Harris said. The owner, HG Sears LLC, is ordered to remove the waste, including “multiple piles of dirt, concrete and furniture,” and secure the auto care building, which is under consideration for a condemnation order. Harris says the people dump there under the cover of darkness.I’ve never seen anyone dumping. I would say something to them if I did. This is not a dumping ground. You’re making it look bad around here, he said.According to DNS, the owners have ten days to clean it up, or the city will do it and send them the bill. WISN 12 News reached out to HG Sears LLC in person, by phone, and via email, but received no response. As for the status of the renovation of the site, the Milwaukee Department of City Development told 12 News they continue to have productive meetings with the development team while they pursue financing for the project.