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Experts: Slow storm season shouldn’t deter preparations

 BY ZACHARY FITZGERALD [email protected] U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany, R-Lafayette, helped host a 2015 Hurricane Preparedness Public Meeting Tuesday at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium. Though meteorologists are forecasting a below average year for hurricane activity in the Atlantic, one big storm can make a season. Forecasters expect sevennamed storms, three hurricanes and one major hurricane of Category 3 or greater, said Andy Patrick, meteorologist in charge of the National…

Rice bound for Haiti moves through Morgan City

Shipments will help port expand import-export reach BY ZACHARY [email protected] Above, Planters Rice Mill employees work Thursday morning to load rice from a truck onto a barge at the Port of Morgan City’s dock.  They used an electricallypowered conveyer belt to transfer the rice. About 3,500 tons will be loadedinto two barges at the port, where it will stay until a ship arrives…

Port stays active, officials say

BY ZACHARY FITZGERALD [email protected] The Port of Morgan City’s Government $11 million Emergency and Operations Center is shown April 15. It is located on La. 182 adjacent to the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium.   The center is scheduled to be finished by September. Throughout the past year, lots of activity has been going on at and…