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Currents Q2 2021

Editor’s note: This story was written when restoration began in February 2021. The monument will be fully restored in March 2021. We thank donors to this project: Entergy, Irene W. […]

By Maggie Heyn Richardson Imagine it: a new park replacing an empty lot—broken concrete and poison ivy exchanged for native shade trees, picnic tables and flower-filled raised beds. A vibrant […]

Dr. Philip R. Schauer is kind of a big deal. It says exactly that on a nameplate behind his desk at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, which recruited Schauer from the […]

By Sara Bongiorni Strangers began calling Charlotte Claiborne in the weeks before the opening of the Bridge Center for Hope, sometimes late at night, always frantic with worry. Each caller […]

By Maggie Heyn Richardson In 2017, Dustin LaFont stood in front of the former Sarkis Oriental Rugs building at Government and Wiltz streets and dreamed. The stately, red-brick former church […]

Currents Q1 2021

2022 Annual Report

By Sara Bongiorni Marcus Turner has big plans, even heroic ones. The Broadmoor High School freshman hopes to study technology in college to prepare for a career as a cybersecurity […]

By Jeff Roedel With every step clacking across the cool concrete quicker than the last, it is easy to see Renee Chatelain is elated. She should be. She’s walking through […]