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A community that built its own fire protection now faces questions about its volunteer future When fire consumed Port Allen's business district in 1918, no one came to help. Seventeen years later, on March 11, 1935, 21 neighbors said "never again." They founded the Port Allen
August 04, 2025
WBR Parish Council threatened to cut the Council on Aging's millage unless it spends down its $5.4 million fund balance — while budget documents show the parish itself sits on over $54 million in reserves across all departments, including a Criminal Court with 11.3 years of operating reserves.
July 07, 2025
Congressman Cleo Fields came to Port Allen to defend FEMA, Medicaid, SNAP, and the Department of Education — and to remind constituents that when they can't get through to Social Security, his office can.
June 23, 2025
An Addis resident's letter to The Advocate calling out WBR Parish for reactive governance landed in the middle of WBR Independent's own documented pattern of the same thing — from flood rescues to emergency water alerts issued only after the crisis had already started.
June 11, 2025
Port Allen's first mayor's town hall tackled a $15 million sewer plant that will take five years to build, blight ordinances residents didn't know existed, and a city that's running out of land to grow on.
June 11, 2025
Announcing the Launch of WBRIndependent.com West Baton Rouge Parish is growing. Changing. Making decisions that will shape our communities for decades. But too often, those decisions happen quietly — in meetings few attend, with language few understand, and consequences that few realize until it’s too late. That doesn’t
May 05, 2025
