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09/05/2026

Employee Appreciation Post 🤍

I don’t even know if I can call Michelle our “salesperson” anymore. Assistant doesn’t fit either. Coworker definitely doesn’t cover it.

At this point, I think her official title at Living In Parish Magazine is friend, second mom, professional Lizzie wrangler, and wherever-I-can’t-be-she-is.

When I hired Michelle to help with sales, the weirdest part was the fact that I was hiring someone at all. I’m 22 years old. What am I doing hiring people?! 😂 But then came Michelle.

By trade, she’s a bail bondsman and owns Mike’s and Michelle’s Bail Bonding, which made it incredibly easy for me to say, “Hey, come with me to Rotary. You need to be in it anyway.” And somehow that turned into her coming with me just about everywhere, to every meeting, ever.

And thank God she does.

Michelle walks into a room and handles her own. She makes connections, builds relationships, keeps me on my toes and somehow keeps up with the approximately 900 things I decide we need to do in any given week. 😂 Where I can’t be, she is. When I need an extra set of hands, she has them. When one of us meets somebody the other needs to know, we make the introduction. We’ve built this little partnership where I help her make connections, she helps me make connections, and somewhere along the way she became one of my best friends in business and in life.

I certainly never expected one of my best friends to be my mom’s age.

She’s like 35, though.

(She’s not. She is definitely approaching 55. Please keep her in your thoughts during this difficult time.)

But somehow she keeps up with 22-year-old me without a problem. Honestly, half the time I’m the one trying to keep up with her.

There are a lot of people who see the magazine when it comes out, but they don’t always see the people behind it. Michelle is one of those people who helps make Living In Parish what it is. She shows up. She believes in what we’re building. She works her butt off. And most importantly, she has become someone I genuinely don’t know what I would do without.

I’m so lucky to have a Michelle in my life, and I truly don’t think I’d be where I am right now without her.

So, on Employee Appreciation Day, thank you, Michelle. For the sales, the connections, the running around, the packed schedules, the Rotary meetings, the events, the laughs, the advice, and for being there wherever I can’t be.

Living In Parish Magazine loves you, but I love you more. 🤍

Michelle Launey Hutson

09/05/2026

Denham Springs High School officially cut the ribbon on its beautiful new field house, with Principal Wes Howard doing the honors before a packed Yellow Jacket Stadium. And for a school that now holds the title of the largest high school in the state of Louisiana, it feels pretty fitting to see facilities growing right alongside it.

But this one was a little personal for me.

I’ve covered plenty of ribbon cuttings since starting Living in Parish Magazine, but standing on that field tonight felt different. I graduated from Denham Springs High School. I wore the purple and gold. I spent plenty of Friday nights under those stadium lights. And now, years later, I got to stand on the same field with a camera in my hand and document another chapter in the story of the school that helped shape me.

Looking around at the students packed into the stands, the band, cheerleaders, football players, faculty, alumni and community members, it was hard not to feel proud. The new field house is beautiful, but what it represents is even bigger: investment in our students, our school and the future of Denham Springs.

There are some places you graduate from and leave behind. Denham Springs High School has never really felt like one of them.

Congratulations to Principal Wes Howard, DSHS and everyone who helped make this project a reality. I’m incredibly grateful Living in Parish Magazine got to be there for this moment, and even more grateful that this time, I got to come back as an alumna.

Once a Yellow Jacket, always a Yellow Jacket. 💜💛

09/04/2026

We had a great time celebrating the official ribbon cutting and grand opening of Sunny Time Chevron this morning in Denham Springs, hosted by the Livingston Parish Chamber of Commerce!

They certainly know how to make an opening a party, complete with a petting zoo, bounce house, food, drinks and plenty of smiling faces from around the community.

Inside, Sunny Time has gotten quite the makeover too, with a huge selection, hot food, a Beer Cave and plenty of grab-and-go favorites.

Congratulations to the entire Sunny Time team on officially opening your doors and investing right here in Livingston Parish. We love getting to welcome new businesses to our community and wish you many years of success! 💙

📍 23610 LA-16, Denham Springs

09/02/2026

🚨 LAST CALL FOR ADVERTISING! 🚨

Today is the LAST DAY to purchase advertising in our BEST OF LIVINGSTON edition, hitting stands September 18! 🏆

We’re offering special pricing for this issue:
⭐ Quarter Page — $360
⭐ Half Page — $600
⭐ Full Page — $1,000

This is one of our biggest editions of the year, celebrating the businesses, people and places our community voted the Best of Livingston Parish!

If you’ve been thinking about getting your business in Living In Parish Magazine, today’s the day. Message us to claim your space before we close out the issue!

08/31/2026

Some photographs deserve a second look. 💚

When we began putting together our 10-Year Flood Edition, we received thousands of photographs. Some documented the destruction. Some captured the strange things left behind. And some managed to show something beautiful in the middle of one of the hardest chapters our parish has ever lived through.

We really wanted to take a moment to highlight these photographs by Madison of Perrywinkle Tree Photography, because each one carries a story of its own.

There’s a houseboat nearly swallowed by the water. A snake clinging to a passing tree limb. The remains of a home that eventually had to be demolished. And Madison’s own mother’s home on Callahan Drive, where eight feet of water left behind pieces of other people’s lives, including a wedding album and a photograph of a little girl whose owners were never known.

Then there are her grandparents.

In the middle of helping clean her mother’s home and helping anyone else they could, Madison caught them during a brief break outside. They had removed their N95 masks for a moment, looked at one another, and smiled. After everything surrounding them, they were simply grateful to see each other’s faces.

That photograph, in particular, feels like so much of what we remember about August 2016. Exhaustion, devastation, dirty gloves and long days, but somehow, people still found reasons to smile.

Madison also photographed fallen timber in the aftermath, with a tree still standing tall behind it. To her, it became a quiet reminder that despite everything that had fallen, things were going to be okay.

Ten years later, these photographs are more than documentation. They are pieces of Livingston Parish history, captured by someone who was living it right alongside everyone else.

Thank you, Madison and Perrywinkle Tree Photography, for sharing your memories through your lens. 💚

You can find these photographs on Page 44 of our 2016 Flood 10-Year Special Edition

08/30/2026

From a Pop-Up Tent to Nine Locations: Welcome to Denham Springs, Empire Wingz!

What started with a pop-up tent serving wings outside of a nightclub has officially grown into a nine-location business, with the newest Empire Wingz now open right here in Denham Springs!

Owner Vic Smith shared that in the early days, people began showing up not just for the nightclub, but specifically for the wings. That demand helped turn a simple pop-up operation into what has now become the Empire Wingz brand, with Denham Springs marking location number nine.

The Livingston Parish Chamber of Commerce, along with its Ambassadors and members of the local business community, helped officially welcome Empire Wingz to the parish with a ribbon cutting Friday.

Congratulations to Vic Smith and the entire Empire Wingz team on their continued growth and newest location. We’re excited to have you in Livingston Parish!

📍 120 Bass Pro Blvd., Suite E, Denham Springs

08/29/2026

GOOD MORNING, LIVINGSTON PARISH! 🤍

First, I just want to say THANK YOU. The response to this edition has been incredible. My phone has been blowing up, our messages have been full, and the number one question we keep getting is: “Where can I find a copy?”

Our distribution locations are always available on our website, and I’m also attaching a graphic to this post with our current pickup locations. We will be making our rounds today and hope to have copies at most, if not all, of these locations by the end of the day.

With that being said, I do want to address something quickly. I absolutely understand that everyone is excited to get their hands on a copy, and I LOVE that there is this much demand for something we worked so hard on. But I am also only one person. Between delivering thousands of magazines, answering calls and messages, keeping up with comments, and everything else that goes into producing a publication like this, it can be difficult to personally respond to every single comment asking for a location.

Most people have been incredibly kind and patient, and I appreciate that more than you know. Unfortunately, there have also been a few comments and phone calls that have been less than kind. Please remember that Living in Parish Magazine is provided FREE to the public, and I want very much to keep it that way. We are working as quickly as we can to get copies throughout the parish.

And that actually brings me to something we need YOUR help with!

We are looking for MORE distribution locations throughout Livingston Parish.

If you own or manage a business, restaurant, office, boutique, waiting room, coffee shop, salon, community space, or another high-traffic location and would be willing to serve as a FREE pickup location for Living in Parish Magazine, please comment below or message us!

The more businesses willing to carry copies, the easier it becomes for readers to find the magazine close to home, and the farther we can spread each edition throughout our community.

So check the graphic below for your nearest location, give us a little time today to make our rounds, and if you know somewhere that needs to be added to our distribution list, TAG THEM BELOW!

Thank you for wanting this magazine enough to hunt it down. That is a pretty incredible problem for a little local publication to have. 🤍

-Lizzie Baudoin
Editor/Co-Owner

08/28/2026

There’s a new place to shop in the Denham Springs Antique Village, and this morning, Birdie Bleu LLC officially celebrated its arrival with a ribbon cutting surrounded by family, friends and members of the Livingston Parish Chamber of Commerce.

For owner Nikki, Birdie Bleu started simply enough. Even the name came from sitting around the table with her family and tossing around ideas.

“It’s catchy, it’s cute. Let’s go with it,” she laughed.

But as she stood in front of the boutique this morning, Nikki shared that somewhere between opening a business, getting the shop ready and all of the work that comes with it, Birdie Bleu became about much more than clothes and shopping.

“This boutique is actually a blessing for us,” Nikki said. “It’s more of a blessing in disguise for me, with my family, because I’ve had an opportunity to spend time individually with each one of them. And we’ve laughed. We’ve griped. We’ve talked.”

She admitted there was no carefully prepared ribbon cutting speech. Instead, after finding herself awake at 3 a.m. thinking about what she wanted to say, she kept coming back to one thing: happiness.

“My family is what brings me joy and makes me happy,” she said.

And that feeling is exactly what she hopes people find when they walk through the doors of Birdie Bleu.

“If our joy and our happiness can bring happiness to one person that comes into this shop, it’s worth it to us,” Nikki said. “It’s a lot of work, but it’s worth it.”

We think that might be one of our favorite reasons for opening a boutique yet. 🩵

Congratulations to Nikki, her family and Birdie Bleu LLC on this morning’s ribbon cutting and on becoming the newest boutique to call the Denham Springs Antique Village home!

Next time you’re strolling through the Village, make sure to stop in, say hello and welcome another locally owned business to downtown Denham Springs.

08/25/2026

Livingston Parish has a new attraction, and this one comes with some VERY big residents. 🐴

Wilder Blue Ranch llc. recently celebrated its official ribbon cutting with the Livingston Parish Chamber of Commerce, marking an exciting milestone for Louisiana’s first registered Clydesdale breeding program.

We recently had the chance to tour the ranch ourselves for Living in Parish Magazine, and it’s one of those places you really have to experience in person. Wilder Blue offers tours where visitors can get up close with the horses, learn about the Clydesdale breed and meet the individual personalities that call the ranch home. Caroline Collins and her family are also working toward a much bigger mission: preserving a breed with only around 5,000 Clydesdales remaining worldwide.

And they’re just getting started.

Next up is Red, White & Wilder Blue on Sunday, September 6 from 2–6 p.m. 🇺🇸 The ranch will open its gates for an afternoon of live music, local vendors, food, water slides, family fun and, of course, Clydesdales. They’re also still accepting local businesses and makers interested in joining the market as vendors.

Congratulations to the Wilder Blue Ranch family on their ribbon cutting and on bringing something truly unique to Livingston Parish. We have a feeling we’ll be seeing a lot more of those big hooves around the parish. ❤️🤍💙🐴

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