A Cultural District may be coming to the City of Monroe; it’s the Divine Nine Cultural District. The creation of the district is being proposed by councilwoman Kema Dawson Robinson to promote the revitalization of communities and hubs…

A Cultural District may be coming to the City of Monroe; it’s the Divine Nine Cultural District. The creation of the district is being proposed by councilwoman Kema Dawson Robinson to promote the revitalization of communities and hubs…
A company owned by former Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo won’t be working for the Town of Richwood any longer. In the last meeting of the Richwood Board of Aldermen, a motion by Alderman Simeon Profit to rehire the…
Brown says Richwood will have to pay over $6,000 for failed recall election On Saturday, 254 voters in Richwood cast votes in a battle to remove Mayor Gerald Brown from office. With a 13% turnout, only 101 voters voted in…
Richwood voters will go to the polls next week to decide whether to recall Mayor Gerald Brown. Last week the board of alderman tabled budget submitted by the mayor, until its next meeting which will be after the recall election.…
Backers of a recall petition against Richwood Mayor Gerald Brown received word Wednesday that the Governor John Bel Edwards, after receiving the required signatures has set a recall election for November 13, 2021. The Ouachita Parish Registrar of Voters office…
An Analysis: Gun violence in our community is a growing problem that city leaders seem unable to address. Now three more victims of gun violence in our community have been added to the list. The city’s police chief…
Michelli Martin is the new director of communications for the City of Monroe. Martin’s appointment was announced Tuesday by Mayor Oliver Ellis. She is the first black appointment in his four-month-old administration. Martin will replace former communications director Rod Washington…