Ken Stickney

Sep 16, 2023 | theadvocate.com | Ken Stickney

There’s some painstaking work yet to be completed before the Carencro Visitor Center is opened, perhaps in the late fall or spring. But for now at the corner of North Church Street and Veterans Drive, everything old is new again. That busy intersection near the city’s entrance off Interstate 49 is where city leaders have moved what was for many years an unused structure of some 500 square feet from near the railroad tracks on South Michaud Street to its present nearby location.

Sep 14, 2023 | theadvocate.com | Ken Stickney

The newly renovated J. Arthur Roy House, the only University of Louisiana at Lafayette structure on the National Register of Historic Places, is now open to the public. Joshua C. Caffery, director of the Center for Louisiana Studies, and staff members hosted a steady flow of visitors recently, most of whom gathered in research rooms and in the University of Louisiana Press bookstore. “It’s an iconic building for Lafayette,” Caffery said of the Roy House.

Sep 13, 2023 | theadvocate.com | Ken Stickney

Here’s how close Francis and Cathi Pavy came to not owning the Eloi Girard House, where they’ve lived for the past 24 of the 28 years they’ve been married: They had already signed an offer to buy another Lafayette home when their agent — as a by-the-way observation — mentioned that the Girard home was newly placed on the market. The Pavys were familiar with the latter house. In searching for a home in the late ‘90s, Pavy remembered stopping at a traffic light, looking at the house at 500 E.

Sep 11, 2023 | theadvocate.com | Ken Stickney

Glenn Armentor’s history with Good Hope Hall has been lifelong, initiated long before he and his now retired law partner, Gary Steckler, first purchased, refashioned and then occupied the historic Freetown building, which is on Lafayette's Historic Register, in 1981. From that start in a two-lawyer office, the Glenn Armentor Law Corp.

Sep 11, 2023 | theadvocate.com | Ken Stickney

South Louisiana Community College doled out more than diplomas this year. The two-year public college, which includes nine campuses in eight Acadiana parishes, again provided the public and the school’s stakeholders with more specific information about those who crossed the stage for their degrees and certifications.