Jean Lafitte, Louisiana

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• Orleans and Jefferson Christmas tree recycling information
  

  Place trees curbside on regularly scheduled collection days between January 5 and 8. Residents must remove all lights, tree stands, ornaments and tinsel from live trees.

• Company says trash deal could save Jefferson Parish millions
  

  What began as a plan to keep yard clippings out of the Jefferson Parish landfill could push officials to shutter the dump for the next quarter-century. A private company, River Birch Inc., has offered to divert ...

• Exhibits
  

  Patrick Sullivan, left, Joyce Penn and Patrick Burns unpack the Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession exhibit for a 2004 showing in Lafayette.

• Environmental education: Metairie students replant wetlands
  

  Students hike into Jean Lafitte National Park's Barataria Preserve on Tuesday to plant saplings they grew at school, in hopes of saving Louisiana's wetlands.

• Jefferson Parish recycle contract gets only 2 offers
  

  Only two companies have offered to resurrect Jefferson Parish's moribund recycling program, according to proposals released Monday by parish attorneys.

• The Christmas List
  

  Take a tour of the Alexandre Mouton house, a 19th-century Lafayette home decorated exquisitely for the Christmas season.

• Governors push economic stimulus package
  

  A day ahead of a closed-door meeting in Philadelphia with President-elect Barack Obama, Louisiana Gov.

• Season of deadly Hurricanes Gustav and Ike comes to an end
  

  Another active, frightening and costly hurricane season has drawn to an end, with dozens of Louisiana coastal communities still picking up the pieces from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, and dreading what future ...

• Louisiana Scenic Drive: Creole Nature Trail
  

  "Louisiana Scenic Drive: Creole Nature Trail." 06 April 2007. HowStuffWorks.com. 20 November 2008.

• Jeff seeking recycling hauler
  

  After three years and one false start, Jefferson Parish is again moving to restore recycling service to neighborhood curbsides.

• Monthly garbage fee may go up by $4
  

  Monthly garbage fees for most Jefferson Parish homes next summer would rise more than $4 from the current price under an agreement that Parish President Aaron Broussard's administration has negotiated with a ...

• Main to Main returns Saturday in Eunice
  

  EUNICE - Several weeks of music, food and festivities will kick off at 6 p.m. Saturday in downtown Eunice for the city's Main to Main 2008 program.

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  The Barataria Baptist Church is located in the town of Jean Lafitte, named for the infamous pirate whose headquarters were hidden in those wetlands and who assisted General Andrew Jackson in defeating the ...

• Surge gate at canals nearing approval
  

  The Army Corps of Engineers is moving closer to greenlighting a $500 million project to erect a floodgate near the confluence of the Harvey and Algiers canals, a once-controversial proposal that now has wide ...

• 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.

• Sephardi Sea Hawks
  

  Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom - and Revenge By Edward Kritzler Doubleday, 336 ...

• Rapper's judge splits DA and cops
  

  Most of the time, the key players in law enforcement are on the same side. Not so when it comes to politics.

• Storm damage causes some polls to relocate
  

  Damage from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike has forced the relocation of 10 precincts for Saturday's election, including two polling sites in Orleans and Jefferson parishes: The local changes are: -- Orleans Parish, ...

• Funding sought for Lafitte levees
  

  A group of elected officials from Jefferson Parish, La., will be in Washington, D.C., today to meet with members of Congress in an effort to improve flood protection for the area of Lafitte, La.

City Description

Jean Lafitte is a town on Bayou Barataria in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is named after the privateer Jean Lafitte. The population was 2,137 at the 2000 census. It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area. Jean Lafitte is located at 29°44′10″N 90°07′36″W / 29.73611, -90.12667 (29.735587, -90.122053). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 6.3 square miles (16.2 km²), of which, 6.0 square miles (15.5 km²) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.7 km²) of it (4.47%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,137 people, 721 households, and 575 families residing in the town. The population density was 357.5 people per square mile (138.0/km²). There were 767 housing units at an average density of 128.3/sq mi (49.5/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 93.03% White, 0.61% African American, 2.76% Native American, 1.31% Asian, 0.14% Pacific Islander, 0.33% from other races, and 1.82% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.87% of the population. There were 721 households out of which 39.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.2% were married couples living

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