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In New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, grocery store owner keeps doors open
Burnell Cotlon spent his life's savings to open the only grocery store in the Lower 9th Ward a decade after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans. In a 2015 interview, Cotlon told ...
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New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward is still reeling from Hurricane Katrina's damage 15 years later
Kent Montgomery at an abandoned apartment complex in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans on Friday ... In 2007, she and her next-door neighbor, Josephine Butler, became the first Lower 9th Ward ...
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New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum Preserves a Culture Washed Away
And it’s what motivated me and three fellow volunteers to try to preserve the history of one neighborhood – New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward – before ... on neighbors’ doors in the ...
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King: Lower Ninth Ward trails in New Orleans 'new normal'
This week, King traveled to New Orleans ... And within a few steps of the door is a reminder that 43 months after Katrina changed everything, the Lower Ninth Ward is still a mess.
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Ghosts Of Katrina Still Haunt New Orleans' Shattered Lower Ninth Ward
The flooded streets and destroyed homes of the New Orleans neighborhood known as the Lower Ninth Ward were among the most ... was really pulled to the front of my yard," she says, describing ...
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Fate Uncertain for New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward
As plans to rebuild New Orleans move ahead, one neighborhood that may not be revived is the Lower ... the 9th Ward and drive by their house. It wasn't good news. Ms. G. FULTON: The front porch ...
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New Orleans firefighters respond to fire in the Lower Ninth Ward
WE’RE TOLD THE FIRE BEGAN TO SPREAD TO AN OCCUPIED HOME NEXT DOOR ... NO INJURIES WE New Orleans firefighters were called out to a fire Monday night in the Lower Ninth Ward.The fire broke ...
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Lower Ninth Ward opens in New Orleans
New Orleans – The last neighborhood in New Orleans that had remained closed after Hurricane Katrina reopened Thursday, with some residents of the Lower Ninth Ward ... in his front yard with ...
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Two killed, another wounded in Lower 9th Ward shootings, New Orleans police say
Two men were killed and a third wounded Thursday afternoon in a pair of Lower 9th Ward shootings separated by six blocks and 70 minutes, the New Orleans ... the sidewalk in front of a house ...
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Tiny Home Project Launches in Lower 9th Ward
On May 16 a powerful example of community collaboration came to life with the unveiling of a new tiny home duplex in the ...
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Seven Shot, Two Fatally, in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward
NEW ORLEANS — Police said a drive-by shooting killed a man and an 18-year-old woman and wounded five other people, three of them children, in the Lower 9th Ward ... all were in front of a ...