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re: 1 dead and another injured at Bogalusa High School Basketball game

Posted on 1/13/24 at 10:12 am to
Posted by Haydo
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Posted on 1/13/24 at 10:12 am to
Would someone with too much time on their hands give me the cliff notes version of the history of this town? Why was it once a nice suburban type town? What happened?
Posted by BobABooey
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Posted on 1/13/24 at 10:34 am to
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What happened?

Even back to the 1960’s, Bogalusa was the butt if jokes because of the smell from the paper mill. There wasn’t a reason anyone from the northshore would want or need to go to Bogalusa. I heard that some powerful locals would find out where a business like McDonald’s was interested in opening, buy the land, and then ask an outrageous price for the property so development was stagnant. One time in the 1990’s (I think) they put Bogalusa’s name on the I-12 exit sign but folks in Mandeville and Covington had the sign replaced. I also have heard some of the Mississippi Burning types of problems were perpetrated by Bogalusa residents.

It just seems like a nice little town that stagnated and anyone who had the resources to move, did.
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