More cutters coming: Lockport-based Bollinger Shipyards has won a $179.7 million contract option from the Coast Guard to build four more fast-response cutters. Bollinger now has 12 cutters under the contract, with a value of $597 million. The current contract contains options for up to 34 cutters that could be worth $1.5 billion. The latest cutters are scheduled to be delivered to the Coast Guard in 2014 and ported in Key West, Fla.
Decorated:Jeanette Turk has been awarded House & Home magazine’s 2011 Design Award for two living room categories. She also won Decorating Den Interiors’ Regional Director of the Year Award and Eagle Award for outstanding sales. Originally from London, Turk has lived in Baton Rouge since 2002. Learn more about her at her website here.
Ready for their close-up: West Virginia University students who have built a tent city on the Mountainlair Plaza say they are determined to be close to the action when ESPN airs its College GameDay broadcast from Morgantown on Saturday—and to make sure the state is presented in a positive light. No. 16 West Virginia hosts No. 2 LSU in a prime-time game airing on ABC. ESPN’s daylong coverage of the nation’s college football games begins at 9 a.m CT. Mountaineer fans were camped out in dozens of tents more than a day before ESPN is set to arrive, some since early Thursday evening, just a few hundred yards from the stage. Read a story about Morgantown’s preparation for its first GameDay experience in the Charleston Daily Mail here.
