Choose your detour: Staring Lane will be closed for three weeks between Highland Road and Kingcrest Parkway for three weeks beginning at midnight on Saturday, March 24. This closure is necessary to install and test new sewer pipeline along Staring Lane. Improvements in the area fall under both the Green Light Plan targeting roadwork and the parish-wide Sanitary Sewer Overflow program. The roadway is to reopen on or before Sunday, April 15, at midnight, weather permitting. Motorists are advised to use Highland Road, Bluebonnet Boulevard, Kenilworth Parkway and Perkins Road as primary detours during the three-week closure. Access to the closed segment of Staring Lane will be limited to local traffic and residential service providers.
Top honors: Woman’s Hospital has been named the 2012 Hospital of the Year by the Louisiana Nurses Foundation and Louisiana State Nurses Association. The hospital was given the Nightingale Award at the annual Louisiana Awards Gala for Nursing and Healthcare held in late February in Baton Rouge. The annual Nightingale awards recognize quality service in the nursing profession and healthcare industry. Woman’s President and CEO Teri Fontenot says the award is “a reflection of Woman’s vision to provide exceptional care by extraordinary people. It recognizes the unwavering dedication of our nursing staff and the entire team who supports them to deliver the best care experience to women and infants in our community.”
Oops! An independent group backing Mitt Romney for the GOP presidential nomination has started sending out mailers to Louisiana voters in advance of the state’s March 24 primary—but didn’t quite get the details right for advising voters. Restore Our Future, a super PAC helping to finance television ads, automated phone calls and direct mail to support Romney, told voters in the Louisiana mailer they should vote for Romney on Tuesday, March 24. But the primary actually falls on a Saturday, not Tuesday. The mailer went out around north Louisiana, criticizing Rick Santorum as a big-spending Washington insider and calling Romney, the front-runner, a strong conservative leader. No word yet on whether a new mail piece will go out to the same homes to tell people the correct voting day.
