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Pastor added to library board Six applied to fill Judge’s seat
BY CLAIRE TAYLOR Staff writer
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Students walk through the newly painted hallways on Thursday on their first day back at Paul Breaux Middle School in Lafayette. Students in Lafayette Parish headed back to school on Thursday. The 2025-26 school year for the parish school system begins with a staggered start. Half of the roughly 30,000 students started Thursday, with the other half starting Friday. At Lafayette High School, students returned to a brand-new facility. Other changes include the former Lafayette Middle opening as an elementary school for the first time in its history. It will house students from S.J. Montgomery Elementary, which was closed.
Students pass through a weapons detector as they arrive Thursday for their first day back to school at Lafayette High School in Lafayette.
Six people applied to fill the soon-to-be vacated Lafayette Public Library Board seat, including a librarian at a Lafayette Catholic high school who has attended and spoken at board meetings Instead, the Parish Council on Tuesday voted to appoint a Broussard media consultant, a graduate in Christian ministry from a Baptist theological seminary who listed first among his various roles in the past 30 years as that of pastor. Also on Tuesday, the council reappointed Rena Bradley to the board. She replaced James Thomas, the lone left-leaning library trustee who resigned because of work conflicts. Bradley addressed the council Tuesday, lobbying in favor of appointing former librarian Carrieanne Ledet to the board. The seat in question is being vacated by controversial former board President Robert Judge, whose term expires in September. While eligible for reappointment, Judge declined to seek another term on the board. The five-person Lafayette Parish Council, since 2020, has appointed predominantly right-leaning Christian conservatives, often passing over seemingly more qualified applicants for the nonpaying seven-member board. Three men on the Parish Council — John Guilbeau, Bryan Tabor and Kenneth Stansbury — voted Tuesday to appoint Christopher Holmes, CEO and founder of Bayou Creative of Broussard, to replace Judge. Holmes’ resume says he earned an associate degree in 2017 and a bachelor’s degree in 2023 in Christian ministry from New Orleans
ä See LIBRARY, page 5A
Under new La. SNAP rules, soda and candy bars banned Goal is to improve health outcomes, reduce Medicaid costs
cific definitions of what that means for shoppers. Candy bars are off-limits, but families can still buy chocolate chips. Energy drinks are not allowed, but Gatorade is, as long as it’s full sugar and not the artificially sweetened version. The rules apply to all of the roughly 850,000 BY EMILY WOODRUFF SNAP recipients in the state. Staff writer The goal, according to Gov. Jeff Louisiana’s new SNAP rules will Landry’s administration, is to ban soda, candy and energy drinks improve health outcomes and restarting in 2026, and there are spe- duce the state’s Medicaid costs by
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limiting access to foods linked to chronic diseases like diabetes and obesity. “This is about getting Louisiana healthy again, which is in coordination with the president’s effort to make America healthy again,” Landry Landry said on a recent podcast recorded at Prejean’s Restaurant in Brous-
sard. “Snickers is not for lunch.” According to the federal waiver, Louisiana will prohibit SNAP purchases of soft drinks, which is defined as “any carbonated nonalcoholic beverage containing high fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners.” Excluded are “flavored carbonated water,” drinks, those “that contain milk or milk products, soy, rice, or similar milk substitutes,” and beverages with “equal to or greater than 50% of vegetable or
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fruit juice by volume.” That means a drink like a smoothie containing sweeteners could be exempt if it also contains milk. Energy drinks — or beverages “containing a stimulant such as fortified caffeine, guarana, glucuronolactone, or taurine” — are also off-limits. The definition includes both carbonated and noncarbonated products formulated to “enhance energy, alertness, or
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