Work has started on the Spring Street overpass bridge into downtown Shreveport. The contract states that the work should be completed in 70 working days, so expect the bridge to be out until at least August, barring significant weather delays.
The Caddo Parish School Board approved the closure of Jack P. Timmons Elementary, Arthur Circle Elementary and Mooretown Elementary while establishing Broadmoor STEM Academy
The Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program (EAP) has announced that it will be hosting an online contest celebrating North Louisiana’s small businesses that exemplified the most innovative practices through the COVID-19 shutdown. These businesses will be nominated and voted on by the public, and the award will be $2,500 cash and billboard advertising.
Willis-Knighton Health System’s Children’s Health Specialists is partnering with Children’s Hospital New Orleans and Tulane University School of Medicine to offer genetics clinical services in Shreveport utilizing telemedicine. The new service enables families to interact locally with a physician and genetics counselor, minimizing the need to travel long distances.
Wenwu Zhang, MD, interventional cardiologist with Willis-Knighton Cardiology, has performed Willis-Knighton Heart & Vascular Institute’s 500th transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedure (TAVR).
Bossier Parish could be on the receiving end of nearly $32 million in FEMA funds for repairs and reconstruction of paved roads in south Bossier that were heavily damaged during floods in 2016.
If you were watching local TV in the early 1990s, you knew that Schorr Furniture was the “Working Man’s Store.” The green building at 1100 Texas Ave. was one of 12 furniture stores along Texas Avenue from Crockett Street to Murphy Street that created a “furniture row.” Schorr opened in 1958 and until 2003 made its niche providing decent quality for a lower cost … their television commercials touted three full rooms of furniture plus bedding for $798.
CHRITUS Health has decided to not reopen its athletic clubs in both Shreveport and Bossier City.
What started out as an amendment to restrict sales and discharge of fireworks in Shreveport morphed into an expansion of sales at the council’s meeting on Tuesday, June 9.
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