Jan 30, 2019
BY CHAD CALDER, The Advocate, Jan. 30, 2019 Coastal restoration funds announced recently by Gov. John Bel Edwards include about $23 million for the Lafitte area, which is making headway on the jigsaw puzzle of ring levees designed to keep floodwaters at bay in a...
Jul 22, 2018
July 22, 2018, nola.com After nearly 20 years, pirogue racing returned to the Town of Jean Lafitte Saturday (July 21) at the town’s newly opened Jules Nunez Seafood Pavilion and AJ & Sheron Fabre Market on Bayou Barataria. The 2018 Jean Lafitte Pirogue Races...
Jul 1, 2018
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...
Sep 16, 2017
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...
Jul 12, 2017
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...
Jan 28, 2017
At one time, Lafitte had its own auditorium. A place for the community to come together for celebratory events, where many happy occurrences took place and memories were made. However, after being flooded by numerous hurricanes and storms, the toll had been taken on...
