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More meth See updated arrests by local vaccine local agencies site list Page 5 StMaryNow.com The Daily Review Morgan City, La. 50 Cents Home of the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival Monday, February 8, 2021 Volume 59, No. 26 Serving St. Mary Parish Since 1872 6 Pages www.stmarynow.com New claims Firefighters: Cooperation will go on for jobless Morgan City mayor has talked pay down about leaving parish compact, in Louisiana negotiating separate deals By DAVID JACOBS The Center Square By GEOFF STOUTE Despite the differences The number of people re- gstoute in opinion, Dragna said questing state unemploy- @daily-review.com at the council meeting ment benefits rose slightly Amelia and Berwick that once the mutual aid last week, although the residents will have fire agreement expired, the number of new claims fell, protection from outside city’s fire department the Louisiana Workforce agencies, regardless of still would help its neigh- Commission said Friday. the outcome of their mu- bors. Continued claims for un- tual aid agreement with While Berwick and employment benefits for the Morgan City Fire Amelia responded to the week ending Jan. 30 in- Department, officials Dragna’s comments, the creased to 65,649, com- said. St. Mary Parish Fire pared with the prior week’s Both cited mutual aid Association did not have total of 64,916. For a agreements with the nine any comments as of pre-pandemic comparison, other departments who Friday, Brown said. 16,189 continued claims signed the St. Mary However, he said the as- were filed for the week end- Parish Fire Association’s sociation has scheduled a ing Feb. 1, 2020. mutual aid agreement. Feb. 17 meeting at the New unemployment in- The Amelia Volunteer Bayou Vista Volunteer surance claims for the week Fire Department also has Fire Department to dis- ending Jan. 30 dropped to agreements with cuss the matter. Dragna 10,376 from the previous Stephensville and Bayou said at the council meet- week’s total of 12,004. L’Ourse Volunteer Fire ing that he would attend During the week ending departments, Amelia that meeting to explain Feb. 1, 2020, 2,058 initial Volunteer Fire Chief the city’s move. claims were filed, the LWC Jason Brown said. Brown In his remarks at the said. The Daily Review/Geoff Stoute is also serves as the asso- council meeting, Dragna The number of new Amelia Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jason Brown on Friday assembles a ciation president. cited Berwick and Amelia claims for Pandemic Unem- “We absolutely have in particular, saying that tripod winch at the station that recently returned from inspection. ployment Assistance, a fed- mutual aid agreements the reworking of the mu- does not have to increase ship, but that’s not our Fire Department has re- eral program for workers with every other fire de- tual aid agreements who don’t normally qualify partment in the parish,” boiled down to finances. taxes to pay for fire pro- responsibility to pay for quested assistance five tection that Morgan City the fire department. times from Morgan City for state benefits, such as Berwick Mayor Duval The Morgan City Fire independent contractors, Arthur said. “Morgan Department, he said, is provides them, but they That’s the city of Morgan Fire Department,” the get help with their fire City’s problem.” statement said. also fell last week, accord- City is right now the only doing more work in other ing to the U.S. Department one that came up with municipalities than it is rating with Morgan City In the last two years, In his remarks about being nearby. Arthur said the Berwick Amelia at the council of Labor. Residents made this idiotic idea.” receiving. Therefore, 4,050 new claims last week “So why would the citi- Volunteer Fire meeting, Dragna said The responses, which Morgan City should be compared with 5,142 the zens of Morgan City want Department requested there is likely a 20% Arthur addressed in an compensated for its ef- week before. to foot the bill, so Berwick mutual aid from Morgan chance that when interview and the Amelia forts. For the week that ended and other entities can City once, in 2019. He Morgan City responds to Volunteer Fire Dragna said it costs the Jan. 16, Louisiana workers profit and hurt the said that call was can- a fire in Amelia that it is Department issued in a city $2.1 million a year to made 121,768 continued growth of Morgan City?” celed before Morgan City in an industrial area. He statement signed by help other agencies, but claims for PUA, an increase Dragna asked last week. arrived. said Morgan City often President Joseph Foret, the city seldom has re- of 2,880 from the prior Arthur said Dragna’s In its statement, the handles the more chal- come after new Morgan ceived mutual aid from week. move was “irrational,” Amelia Volunteer Fire lenging portions of the City Mayor Lee Dragna other agencies since the The number of state resi- and he said information Department said that be- firefight, because they sent 90-day notice in a 1994 fire that devastated dents filing for Pandemic provided by Dragna was tween Jan. 1, 2018, and have the training. Jan. 28 letter to local fire Shannon Hardware in Emergency Unemployment “definitely 100% wrong.” Dec. 31, 2020, the depart- In its response, the departments and the par- downtown Morgan City. Compensation, which is for “We’re not going to pay ment responded to 818 Amelia Volunteer Fire ish that the city would be He said it is “physically unemployed workers who Department said while opting out of its parish- hurting” Morgan City, the city of Morgan City calls. Of those, four were have exhausted their state the department has just wide mutual aid agree- with Berwick being able for their fire department,” in Morgan City and six benefits, also increased, ac- 12 active firefighters, all ments. Dragna said he to use Morgan City’s aid Arthur said. “They have a were to other depart- cording to the federal labor are certified through LSU wants to sign individual without providing any re- wonderful fire depart- ments. department. Workers filed in hazmat awareness and aid agreements with the imbursement. ment. Look, we have a “Within the same time 61,499 PEUC claims during fire departments. Dragna said Berwick good working relation- period, Amelia Volunteer (Continued on Page 6) the week that ended Jan. 16. Jobless rates for Decem- ber: COVID surge continues to slow locally —Alexandria: 5.0%, Staff Report St. Mary, St. Martin and last 10 weeks. —St. Martin has 1,642 addi- down from 6.0% in Novem- The third wave of COVID-19 Assumption since Since Thanksgiving: tional confirmed COVID cases ber and down from 5.4% in continues to show signs of wan- Thanksgiving. That’s when the —St. Mary Parish has record- for a total of 4,291. Thirty-two December 2019. ing in local parishes and across approaching holiday season ed 970 confirmed COVID-19 confirmed fatalities have been —Baton Rouge: 6.1%, down from 7.2% in Novem- the state. But the cost has been raised fears among public cases, raising the total to 3,224 reported for a total of 98 con- ber, but up from 4.5% in high. health officials that gatherings since the pandemic began. firmed with eight probable. More than 3,100 new con- would lead to an upswing in Seventeen confirmed COVID- December 2019. —Assumption has 558 addi- firmed COVID cases and 54 COVID cases. related deaths and five deaths —Hammond: 8.1%, tional confirmed cases for a to- confirmed coronavirus-related About a third of local COVID listed as probable have been re- down from 9.6% in Novem- fatalities have been recorded in cases have been reported in the ported. (Continued on Page 5) ber, but up from 5.6% in December 2019. —Houma: 5.9%, down from 6.9% in November, Teacher of but up from 4.5% in De- cember 2019. —Lafayette: 6.2%, down the Year from 7.3% in November, Submitted Photo/Hattie Watts Elementary but up from 4.9% in De- Amy Isham has been named cember 2019. the 2020-21 Teacher of the —Lake Charles: 7.7%, down from 9.7% in Novem- Year at Hattie A. Watts Ele- ber, but up from 4.5% in mentary in Patterson. She has December 2019; been an educator for 16 years —Monroe: 5.7%, down and a teacher at Hattie Watts from 6.9% in November, for the past eight years. She but up from 5.6% in De- teaches pre-kindergarten and cember 2019. serves on Hattie Watts’ Faculty —New Orleans: 8.2%, down from 10.0% in No- Lighthouse team. From left vember, but up from 4.5% are Assistant Principal Charles in December 2019. Foulcard, Isham, Principal —Shreveport: 6.6%, Sheryl Gibbons and Assistant down from 8.0% in Novem- Principal Ronica LaPoint. ber, but up from 5.2% in December 2019 AccuWeather State Lifestyles Obituaries Contact Us 68 58 (See Page 6) (See Page 5) (See Page 3) (See Page 5) News, Advertising and A chance of rain returns B&G Food Enterprises Get It Growing: Adams Circulation High Low Monday night, followed of Morgan City acquires It's time to plant Gros Call 985-384-8370 by patchy fog Tuesday potatoes. Lipari Taco Bells in north www.stmarynow.com morning. Louisiana. Verrett Villar Page 2, The Daily Review, Morgan City, La., Monday, February 8, 2021 Kathryn Jean Lopez The Daily Review Feature Page Old Views From New Administration HERMAN REALITY CHECK ASTRO-GRAPH by KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ “(W)e will never again sow division.