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- Make your tree even greener
ShreveCORPS, an AmeriCorps National Service program directed by Shreveport Green, is collecting Christmas trees right now at Lee Hedges Stadium parking lot.
- Game plan for 2009
How was your year? Flip the days back by 365, and we suggested then that you might enjoy a meaningful 2008 by losing a little weight, reading a book a week and turning off the tube just a little earlier.
- Pedestrian dies in Grand Isle accident
A Harvey woman was killed Tuesday morning when she was struck by a pickup truck while crossing the highway in Grand Isle.
- Harvey Woman killed crossing road near Grand Isle
A 76-year-old Harvey woman was killed after being hit by a pickup truck, according to a statement from State Police spokesman Trooper Gilbert Dardar.
- Fishing Hot Spot Reopened As Wildlife Refuge
ELMER'S ISLAND, La. -- A part of lower Jefferson Parish that was once a fishing hot spot is once again open to the public.
- Losing Louisiana
Seventy miles south of New Orleans, on the eastern end of Grand Isle, a small tide gauge records the Gulf of Mexico rising against the surrounding land.
- Unsinkable 'Gertie' weathers 2 hurricanes
While a new bookmobile was welcomed Sunday by the Warren-Newport Library, Waukegan Library officials recently fielded some good news about the bookmobile they sent down to Louisiana to replace a library ...
- Thanksgiving Eve Crash Leaves Golden Meadow Man Dead
Port Fourchon- A crash on the evening before Thanksgiving in southern Lafourche Parish left a Golden Meadow man dead.
- Coastal Erosion On Grand Isle, Louisiana, Occurring Rapidly
Dean Moosavi takes students in his physical geology course to the spit of land on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico where they are observing rapid land loss in southern Louisiana.
- Kenner improving but frugality important, Mayor says
Kenner has seen many improvements over the past year but because of the national economy, officials will be more frugal in the future, Mayor Ed Muniz said in his State of the City speech today.
- FEMA pays to clean waterways of debris from Hurricane Katrina but not Gustav
A diver with Resolve Marine holds onto a tag line as a rust and barnacle-covered boat is lowered onto a barge Friday November 14, 2008.
- Students linked to life off island
The third-graders at Grand Isle School don't just write letters to their pen pals in France _ they hold video conferences with them.
- Double storms strain debris budget
The double assault from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike is pushing Jefferson Parish to nearly triple its spending on clearing obstructions from streets and drainage ditches.
- Program favors local art, historic areas
Owners of historic buildings and operators of art galleries in 17 New Orleans neighborhoods and five sections of St.
- Students linked to life off island
The third-graders at Grand Isle School don't just write letters to their pen pals in France.
- Grand Isle gets a little help from its friends
Mounds of mud, sand and debris that were dumped on this resort island weeks ago by hurricanes Gustav and Ike are grim reminders along the highway for residents returning to Grand Isle.
- Grand Isle Mayor Said Kenner Help Shows Strength of Jeffersonians
A storm-weary Mayor David Carmardelle said he was in the attic of Grand Isle Town Hall trying to pull his Hurricane Gustav damaged town back together when a phone call came in from fellow Jefferson Mayor Ed ...
- Lafitte, Grand Isle get receptive ear to plea for flood protection
The mayors of Grand Isle and Lafitte went to Baton Rouge Tuesday to ask Governor Bobby Jindal for help with flood protection for their damaged and vulnerable cities.
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Scores of churches in southern Louisiana have been damaged as a result of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
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City DescriptionGrand Isle (French: Grande-Île) is a town in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, located on a barrier island of the same name. The island is at the mouth of Barataria Bay where it meets the Gulf of Mexico. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 1,541; during summers, the population has increased to over 20,000. Grand Isle is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Grand Isle's only land connection to the mainland is via an automobile causeway bridge, near the west end of the island, which connects it to southern Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. To reach the rest of Jefferson Parish by roadway, one has to travel through two different parishes (Lafourche and St. Charles) through a total distance of about 95 miles (153 km).
Grand Isle has been repeatedly pummelled by hurricanes through its history. On average, Grand Isle has been affected by tropical storms or hurricanes every 2.68 years since 1877, with hurricane direct hits on average every 7.88 years . Only some of the more severe are listed here.
In 1860 a 6-foot (1.8 m) storm surge and great winds resulted in the total devastation of the island.
In the 1893 Atlantic hurricane season Grand Isle was ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- United States
- Louisiana
- Jefferson Parish
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