Sylvia Weatherspoon

6 days ago | wbrz.com | Sylvia Weatherspoon

2 Make a Difference: Fathers on a Mission helps men learn stress managementIn this week's 2 Make a Difference, one father shared his experience with stress as Fathers on a Mission hosted a meeting about stress management. If you know someone who makes a difference, send their name, contact information and a brief summary of their story to [email protected].

1 week ago | wbrz.com | Sylvia Weatherspoon

2 Make a Difference: St. Amant High senior, trumpet player accepted to Manhattan School of MusicST. AMANT - In this week's 2 Make a Difference, a St. Amant High senior and trumpet player was accepted to the Manhattan School of Music. If you know someone who makes a difference, send their name, contact information and a brief summary of their story to [email protected].

2 weeks ago | wbrz.com | Sylvia Weatherspoon

BATON ROUGE — Star dancers from across the capital city’s community take center stage at LSU’s PMAC on Saturday night for the Dancing for Big Buddy Extravaganza, including 2une In's Mia Monet and Councilman Darryl Hurst. Saturday’s event is the 17th annual extravaganza, whose organizers and dancers work 2 Make a Difference in the lives of so many lovable little buddies. "For over 45 years, Big Buddy remains committed to serving young people from grade school all the way to graduation.

3 weeks ago | wbrz.com | Sylvia Weatherspoon

BATON ROUGE — Leo Honeycutt had just received a prestigious journalism award in Monroe for an interview he did with President Ronald Reagan when then-WBRZ News Director John Spain recruited him to move to Baton Rouge to cover politics. He said yes to the offer and was off to a running start. "When I first got here, I was a one-man band," Honeycutt said about coming to WBRZ.

4 weeks ago | wbrz.com | Sylvia Weatherspoon

BATON ROUGE — WBRZ is celebrating its 70th anniversary on the air with Retro Week, a look back at seven decades of covering Baton Rouge and the rest of the capital region. Andrea Clesi, who anchored at WBRZ from 1977 to 2008, has always wanted to keep her community informed. And for 31 years, she did that. She remembers covering education in the capital region very fondly. First, she covered the teacher strike of 1979 that shut schools down for two weeks. “The city just stopped,” she said.