The latest Acadiana business news
| Monday, January 31st, 2022 |
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by Adam Daigle | Acadiana business editor Good Monday, Acadiana, and thanks for reading us this morning. We've got the business news to start off the week on the right foot and keep up with what's happening. Let's lead off with an outlook on the 2022 crawfish season. Restaurants are starting to offer boiled crawfish already, but lots of people will be excited to get back to Hawk's Crawfish Restaurants, that popular seasonal place in the woods of northern Acadia Parish that will reopen for the first time since early in the pandemic in 2020. It's been a long time. If you scroll down you'll want to check out a story out of Opelousas High School where an effort to start a T-shirt printing business last school year has grown into a deal in which students could not print shirts fast enough to meet the demand. A nonprofit group bought a second machine that will basically double their production rate. Check out those stories and more below. |
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It’s tucked away in a room down the hall from the main office at Opelousas High School. That's where you’ll find the small heat press and other equipment that students use in a new T-shirt printing business that was born late last school year. Read more |
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Leigh Rachal, who is leaving her job at the helm of the Acadiana Regional Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Lafayette in February after five years, never saw trouble like COVID-19. Read more |
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Dirk Guidry, a Lafayette-based artist who will be the official visual artist of the 2022 Festival International, spoke with Jan Swift of the Discover Lafayette podcast to discuss his journey in becoming an artist who has evolved into a business entrepreneur. Read more |
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