A Senate committee will take up a bill Tuesday that would allow industrial companies to nominate their employees to the Capital Area Groundwater Conservation Commission, an 18-member volunteer panel that regulates the Southern Hills Aquifer. The aquifer supplies Baton Rouge's fresh drinking water and provides area industrial plants with water for their operations.
Work is under way on the former White Star Market space in the Square 46 development on Government Street that will house the new location of Bistro Byronz. But an opening date is still several months away.