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Mr. Bingle is a fictional character marketed and sold by department store Dillard's during the holiday season. Originating as a mascot of the Maison Blanche department store in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mr. Bingle has become an important part of the popular culture of the Greater New Orleans area, and across the United States.
The Mobile Market is a food truck that will visit neighborhoods in north Baton Rouge that have been declared "food deserts" by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These neighborhoods are in the 70802, 70805, and 70807 ZIP codes.
Maison Blanche was acquired in 1923 by City Stores Company, which merged Maison Blanche with Loveman's in 1950. City Stores Co. filed for bankruptcy in July 1979. While in bankruptcy, they initially intended to consolidate the seven Maison Blanche stores with four B. Lowenstein's stores in Memphis, Tennessee, to form the Maison Blanche Department Stores group, but in early 1982 the Memphis ...
In 2010, Baton Rouge started a market push to become a test city for Google's new super high speed fiber optic line known as GeauxFiBR. [32] In July 2016, the Greater Baton Rouge metropolitan area was heavily affected by the shooting of Alton Sterling. [33] His death led to multiple protests and the shooting of police officers.
Shoe boxes are filled with toys, hygiene items and school supplies may be dropped off during National Collection Week, Nov. 14-21.
Logo as "The Spot" prior to Baton Rouge relocation, 2017-2024. On August 22, 2017, at 5 p.m., KVDU flipped to a rock-leaning adult hits format, branded as 104.1 The Spot. [9] The station would switch to Christmas music for much of November and December, returning to its regular format after the holidays.
Then known as the Baton Rouge standard metropolitan area (or Baton Rouge SMA), it consisted of a single parish–East Baton Rouge–and had a population of 158,236. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Following a term change by the Bureau of the Budget (present-day U.S. Office of Management and Budget ) in 1959, the Baton Rouge SMA became the Baton Rouge standard ...
Among the 14 people killed in the New Orleans attack: a warehouse manager, an account executive, an aspiring nurse and two loving parents.