An article published May 23, 2008, in The Advocate reports that, unlike the majority of the United States, real estate prices in Louisana were on the rise for the first quarter of 2008. This is a market comparison to numbers from the first quarter of 2007, a year ago. Baton Rouge home prices rose 3.7 percent. The real estate market in Baton Rouge is bucking the trend and continues to have fantastic homes to choose from.

The fact that real estate in Louisiana is holding strong makes looking for real estate in Baton Rouge even more satisfying. Glenda Daughety of RE/MAX in Baton Rouge is a knowledgeable and experienced realtor who will make your search for the right piece of property easy and enjoyable. Call Glenda today or visit her web site for a search of all properties available for sale today in the Baton Rouge area.

Baton Rouge LA cares about it’s residents’ quality of life and is now going through all measure possible to prove it! The Baton Rouge Area Foundation is making sure certain community issues and community statistics are [now] tracked by a project named The Quality of Life Project.

According to a February press release, "The project will provide a roadmap for community improvement, telling us where we are, how far we’ve come and where we need to go."

Meetings held early spring through the middle of May gave residents a chance to participate and to choose the indicators to be tracked by the Foundation. These measures included issues such as drive-time traffic, art museum visits, dropout rates, miles of walking trails. The Foundation will then use the data to help guide millions of dollars in grants each year.

The Baton Rouge Area Foundation is a foundation created to connect philanthropists and nonprofit organizations, and manage projects that can improve the community. So far, they have been successful in acheiving their goals as they are now a community foundation with nearly $540 million in assests.

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Last November, Mayor Melvin Holden asked Baton Rouge to recycle, recycle, recycle! And the residents of Baton Rouge listened.

Mayor Holden’s efforts proved successful after a recent report showed that each Baton Rouge household recycled more than 3 ½ pounds (per household), causing a 16.4 percent increase in overall recycling collected.

Baton Rouge partnered with the Curbside Value Partnership to launch an educational campaign named “Cart IT! Create a Recycling Tradition in Baton Rouge” encouraging residents to step up their recycling and reusing. The campaign was promoted through billboards, bus shelters, library displays, a combination of paid and free PSAs in local newspaper, radio and TV media outlets. After the campaign was launched in 2006, Baton Rouge saw an overall 51 percent increase in it’s recycling and reusing.

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The Perkins Road overpass area is about see some changes- positive changes! In the next few weeks, construction will begin on Perkins Road at the Perkins Road Hardware building. The building, which caught fire in 2006 but was never revived, will be turned into a multi-use facility featuring an undisclosed New Orleans-area restaurant, a local gourmet pizzeria and four apartment units on second and third levels.

The Road is lined with a high concentration of local bars, restaurants and goods and service retailers, who will see its "namesake bridge" rehabilitated it’s “anchor” and the beginning of the redevelopment of the former Acadian Village shopping center.

A public meeting will be held May 28 to notify the community of the project, 80 percent of which will be funded by the federal government and 20 percent from the state.

Baton Rouge offers it’s first statewide veterans reunion open to the public

Roger Arnold and several other mostly Vietnam veterans are trying to make sure that veterans-those who served before and after Vietnam-will always be welcomed home with open arms by encouraging those who have served to attend the The Louisiana All Veterans Reunion.

The Reunion will be held May 15th-19th (Thursday through Sunday) at BREC’s Airline Highway Park/Fairgrounds, 17200 Airline Highway.The goal of the event is to offer thanks to veterans and give them an opportunity to reminisce and re-form friendships.

The event is open to the public and will include tributes to veterans, military equipment displays, live music, a children’s village and food. There will be no admission charge, but donations will be requested at the entrance.

This is the first statewide reunion that invites all veterans of all military conflicts. According to Marine-veteran, Bill Campbell, there are 480,000 veterans living in Louisiana who served in the Marines.

Lousiana Department of Veterans Affairs

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Baton Rouge continues to improve the housing in Old South Baton Rouge

HOPE VI, a program that upgrades public housing in Old South Baton Rouge, says construction will begin Monday, May 12, at the corner of Highland Road and Mary Street.

The project will take it’s first step by removing old gasoline storage tanks. The cleanup was granted $58,696 by the Environmental Protection Agency, who chose this location for cleanup. The location was used by a former automotive maintenance, tire, and detailing shop and is now vacant.

According to EPA: Grant funds will support quality assurance planning and cleanup planning and activities, such as the removal and disposal of concrete and soil. Funds also will be used to conduct community outreach activities. which recently recieved a grant from Environmental Protection Agency

HOPE VI will host a project meeting at the location at 9 a.m. Monday and is open to the public.

Baton Rouge offers over 40 summer camps for children of all ages

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Looking for tax rebates early in Baton Rouge

The IRS is sending out tax rebate deposits early, offering them today, ahead of schedule. Some in Baton Rouge will be receiving them. Additionally, tax rebate checks will be mailed out early as well. Depending on your last name, and when you filed your tax return, the tax rebate will be arriving between today and July.

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No decision has been made yet concerning turning the school over to a charter organization

The non-profit group Advance Baton Rouge is seeking to take over responsibility for Pointe Coupee Central High School. However, the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is still unsure as to whether this is the right course. There are concerns about Advance Baton Rouge, but also a desire to turn things around at Pointe Coupee.

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Bush spends a few hours on Baton Rouge real estate

President Bush made a stop in Baton Rouge yesterday in order to stump for John Kennedy in his campaign against Mary Landrieu for the US Senate.

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