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The Lafayette Public Library Committee met on Monday, Nov. 18 to address facility updates, financial reports and book discards.
The Lafayette Municipal Library was created by the Louisiana state government in 1942. On August 6, 1946, its doors officially opened for public use. By 1953, the parish library was expanded to have 10 branch locations, including a bookmobile program. On January 29, 1973, doors opened to the new location of the main library branch in downtown ...
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In 2010, [17] the U.S. Census Bureau reported there were 273,738 people, 89,536 households, and 61,826 families residing within metropolitan Lafayette. From 2010 to 2015, the Lafayette metropolitan area outpaced the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area in North Louisiana by population, becoming the third largest metropolitan area in the state.
The land in Bossier Parish on which the airfield was built was unincorporated land near Bossier City that was annexed by the city of Shreveport once the site had been selected among 80 candidates. The real estate was purchased from over 800 property owners via a $1,500,000 municipal bond issue approved by Shreveport voters in 1929 in ...
Lafayette's Northeast Regional Library moved a step close to fruition Wednesday as the library's steering committee voted to recommend a location.
Map of the United States with Louisiana highlighted. Louisiana is a state located in the Southern United States.According to the 2020 United States census, Louisiana is the 25th most populous state with 4,657,757 inhabitants and the 33rd largest by land area spanning 43,203.90 square miles (111,897.6 km 2) of land. [1]
Lafayette has a consolidated city–parish government, known as the Lafayette Consolidated Government; [123] parish voters agreed to consolidation of the city and parish governments in 1996. [ 38 ] [ 42 ] Lafayette's chief executive was initially called the city-parish president, but is now known as the mayor-president for the Lafayette ...