Mary Staes
Mary Staes is Digital Content Lead for Very Local. She works with our freelancers and crafts content for our social media platforms and website. Before Very Local, she worked with CBS affiliate WWL-TV as a web producer and weekend assignment editor for about 4 years. She has also handled broadcast coverage for 160 Marine Reserve training facilities while she served as an active duty Marine. As a native New Orleanian, she takes being "very local" to heart. She loves being intertwined with the culture and figuring out how there are less than two degrees of separation between us all, whether we're natives or not.
Weekend Picks: From boudin to po-boys, there’s no shortage of good eats
Whatever diet you thought you were going on, this probably isn’t the week to start it.
Po-boy heaven: Your guide to Oak Street Po-Boy Fest
There’s a lobster po-boy, Godfather po-boy, creole hot sausage po-boy, bbq oyster po-boy, we could go on and on.
No ‘I Voted’ sticker? State blames budget problems
Not long after the polls opened, many residents posted on social media that they didn’t get the usual ‘I voted’ sticker at their local polling place. The reason, state officials say, is “budgetary constraints.”
The Thanksgiving turkey Parkway Poor Boy is back
This time, “dressed” means cranberry sauce, cornbread dressing and gravy.
Here’s who’s going to be in the New Orleans East holiday parade
We think yule love it! (*ahem*)
Election Day: Where you need to go, what you need to bring
If you’re not sure where to go vote, we’ve got info on how to find out and what you need to bring.
Q&A: Brandan ‘B-Mike’ Odums and how the “Lemme Find Out” voting remix came about
“I feel like it’s time for us to acknowledge and realize that what happens in politics, it definitely affects what happens in the hood.”
Crescent City Farmers Market: Making Groceries Easier For Locals With An App
A new app is aiming to take the guesswork out of shopping at the local Farmer’s Market.
‘Lemme find out you ain’t registered to vote’: 5th Ward Weebie drops that b.e.a.t. for the polls
5th Ward Weebie took his hit “Lemme FInd Out” to another level Thursday, dropping a remix with the message of getting to the polls behind it.
Between the Highrise and the Twinspan; a day in New Orleans East
New Orleans East gets a bad rap. But between the Highrise and the Twinspan, there’s a lot of hidden gems.