Desiree Stennett
Culture and Communities Reporter at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
Reporter @nolanews covering culture and communities statewide with a focus on race, identity and LGBTQ issues. Miami girl. FAMU grad. She/Her. 🇯🇲
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1 month ago |
nola.com | Desiree Stennett
The first vessel carrying about 30,000 metric tons of imported organic soybeans, wheat and other grain is expected to arrive at the Alabo Street Wharf in Holy Cross this summer. It will take a full-time crew of 17 — six facility workers, seven dock workers and four security officers — to run the operation for Canada-based Sunrise Foods International.
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2 months ago |
nola.com | Desiree Stennett
Port of New Orleans board members unanimously voted on Thursday to approve $100 million in bonds that will, in part, fund infrastructure work to support a controversial grain terminal planned for the Holy Cross neighborhood. The approval followed an hour-long public comment session in which nearly two dozen people spoke in opposition of the terminal itself and the bond funding.
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2 months ago |
nola.com | Desiree Stennett
In many ways, the Viet My Supermarket in New Orleans East is the same as it has always been. The shelves are stocked. The handwritten signs identifying products and prices are still there, some in English and some in Vietnamese. Customers still cycle through to buy fresh produce, meat, dry goods and other household staples, just like they have for decades.
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2 months ago |
nola.com | Desiree Stennett
A New Orleans judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that the Port of New Orleans ran afoul of state laws last year when it planned a hearing to gather input about funding for a grain terminal in Holy Cross.
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2 months ago |
nola.com | Desiree Stennett
Lawyers for the Port of New Orleans will be in court again on Feb. 27 to argue that a judge should dismiss a public records lawsuit filed by residents in Holy Cross, where a controversial grain terminal is expected to open by the summer on land owned by the Port. The lawsuit, filed late last year, focuses on a Dec. 30 informational hearing held to collect public input on whether the Port's Board of Commissioners should issue $100 million in bonds.
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Tomorrow officially makes one year at @NOLAnews. Time flies. I may need to do one of those obligatory threads with my favorite stories of the past year tomorrow.
This is a bad idea for everybody except Door Dash and Klarna: https://t.co/HJfN5e7mlH
Just signed up for a 4-week glass blowing class. For some reason, now feels like the appropriate time for something like that. I'm also going to learn to build a table in an 8-week woodworking class starting in May.
