St. Martinville Main Street Association

08/27/2026

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08/17/2026

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08/14/2026

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08/13/2026

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08/05/2026

07/21/2026

Today we celebrate an incredible leader, Danielle Fontenette, as she transitions from being our director. This marks 30 years of dedicated service as the Director of the Main Street Association.

For three decades, Danielle has worked tirelessly to strengthen our community, support local businesses, and help make Main Street Association, a successful entity representing the City of St. Martinville.
Her passion, vision, and unwavering commitment have inspired countless people and created a lasting impact that will be felt for generations.

On behalf, of both past and current Board members, we thank you, Danielle, for your years of hard work, community engagement, leadership, and faithful service. Your dedication has truly made Main Street a success, and our community is better because of you.

We sincerely thank you and appreciate all that you have done. Wishing you God's richest blessings and the very best in all your future endeavors. Thank you for an amazing 30 years of service!

07/10/2026

Today, it’s with heavy hearts that we share the passing of Robert Romero, Jr., the heart and soul of Robert’s Lounge for so many years.

The story of Robert’s Lounge began in 1947, when Robert’s father, Robert Romero, Sr., opened its doors. When his father passed in the 1980s, Robert proudly picked up the torch becoming not just the owner of a neighborhood lounge, but a fixture in the lives of everyone who walked through its doors, whether they meant to stop for one drink or ended up staying for hours and a life story. What Robert loved most about Robert’s Lounge was never the business. It was the people. His favorite seat in the house was wherever the conversation was best, visiting with customers, friends, and family, swapping stories and catching up with anyone who walked in.

Robert wore a lot of other hats in his time. He served in the Louisiana Army National Guard, including as a certified .30 caliber rifle expert, though he was far more dangerous with a fishing pole in his hand. He was a building contractor by trade and his legacy is literally woven into the St. Martinville landscape through the many homes he built. By his own account (backed up by anyone who ever fished with him), he was a world-class sac-a-lait fisherman and crawfisherman. He spent just about every day of his adult life in the basin with his dad or with Tony, who was like the son he never had.

Robert, also known as Bobby, Baby, Daddy, Pop and PopPop, was the life of the party. To know him was to know kindness, laughter, and conversation, usually all three at once, and usually louder than necessary. He never met a stranger, and on the rare occasion he did, they didn’t stay a stranger for long. He loved telling stories and jokes, and he never once let the fact that you’d heard a joke a dozen times stop him from telling it a thirteenth. More often than not, he was laughing at his own punchline before anyone else. Those conversations, those laughs, and those memories as well as his boundless kindness and humor left an indelible mark on the St. Martinville community.

Above all, he was a loving husband to his bride Shirley, father to 4 daughters - Yvette, Keely, Elaine and Leslie, grandfather to 10, great grandfather to 24, great-great grandfather to 2 and a dear friend to so many. There will never be another Robert Romero, Jr. His legacy lives on in the stories we tell, the jokes we repeat (badly, without his timing), and the memories shared by generations of people lucky enough to have known him. He will be greatly missed.

Thank you, Robert, for the laughter, the stories, the friendship, and the love you gave so freely to so many.

Rest easy, Robert. We’ll see you in the funny papers.

06/12/2026

Registration is open for Destination Downtown 2026 in Baton Rouge!

The annual Destination Downtown Conference is a dynamic regional gathering that brings together community leaders, preservationists, and economic development professionals. Hosted in partnership by Louisiana Main Street, Main Street Arkansas, Mississippi Main Street Association, and Main Street Alabama, the conference celebrates the power of historic downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts as drivers of local vitality and identity. Attendees engage in inspiring sessions focused on revitalization strategies, placemaking, small business support, and sustainable growth.

Conference Website:
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