CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Whoa

    Ball mayor, police chief, town clerk, police officer, and police department employee indicted. Quoting from the AP story: All five were charged in a three-count indictment with disaster fraud and conspiracy to commit disaster fraud for falsifying employee timesheets linked to the town’s request for payroll reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after 2008’s Hurricane Gustav. Washington said Hebron and Kimball also face a count of theft of government money for similar actions after Hurricane Rita. The indictment alleges that the defendants defrauded the government by overstating both the hours worked and the mileage on town vehicles and equipment…

  • Craigslist Opens in CenLa: It Only Took Them Three Years…

    So I’ve just noticed that 3 years after they added most other Louisiana communities — including smaller ones than Central Louisiana, Craigslist has finally answered the 500+ requests per week they likely have constantly received and added: http://cenla.craigslist.org/ Looks like the Town Talk will likely lose even more of their payments to Gannett each month when their classifieds business crashes.

  • Dear Gannett

    How much for The Town Talk? Selling points: It’s been an institution in our community since 1883. When you bought The Town Talk (and Central Newspapers) nine years ago, after it had been purchased by Central Newspapers in 1996 for $62 million in cash, you also bought a printing division known as McCormick Graphics, another institution in our community, named after the founder of The Town Talk, Edgar McCormick. Great brands with great name recognition and a relatively stable region of consumers. A regional newspaper monopoly, which is what, at the time, made your decision so obvious. After all, you…