JEAN LAFITTE, La. –After nearly twenty years, pirogue racing returns to the Town of Jean Lafitte on Saturday, July, 21, 2018, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 920 Jean Lafitte Blvd., Jean Lafitte. “Everyone who has lived on Bayou Barataria remembers the summer pirogue races...
FIRST JEAN LAFITTE TOWN MARKET TAKES PLACE THIS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2017 JEAN LAFITTE, La. –The Town of Jean Lafitte hosts its first town market this Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 920 Jean Lafitte...
TOWN OF JEAN LAFITTE HOLDS RIBBON CUTTING AND DEDICATION CEREMONY FOR OPENING OF THE NUNEZ SEAFOOD PAVILION AND AJ & SHERON FABRE MARKET JEAN LAFITTE, La –The Town of Jean Lafitte will celebrate the grand opening of Lafitte’s Seafood Pavilion and Market on...
Just off urban doorsteps, Lafitte is a dive into wild Louisiana By Ian Mcnulty Imcnulty, The Advocate, Nov. 17, 2014 If it’s true that nature abhors a vacuum, then it doesn’t seem to have much use for straight lines either, at least not in the alluvial sprawl of...
BY JEFF ADELSON, The Advocate, Sept. 9, 2014 Officials kicked off the first phase of the project Friday, breaking ground on an $8.5 million tidal levee that will protect much of the town from storm surge even as plans move forward for levees that would ring the rest...