Natural gas customers in New Orleans and on the North Shore will soon see bills arrive from a new company: Delta Utilities.

Why it matters: It's not spam mail.

Catch up quick: Entergy New Orleans, which for decades has been the city's sole energy provider, is in the process of selling its natural gas business to newly formed Delta Utilities.

• The City Council, which regulates Entergy New Orleans, approved the sale in December.
• Delta Utilities told City Council it won't raise rates for 15 months, Verite reports.
• Delta already completed its acquisition of Centerpoint Energy, which operates natural gas on the North Shore and elsewhere.

How it works: Delta Utilities says the accounts will transfer automatically and existing Entergy natural gas customers don't have to do anything.

• Existing billing cycles, level billing options and payment preferences will continue.
• Auto-pay users will need to re-enroll with Delta, but the system for that isn't yet available.
• In the future, households and businesses will see two bills: One from Entergy for their electric usage, and one from Delta Utilities for their natural gas, the utility told City Council this month.

What's next: The Entergy New Orleans sale is expected to finalize in the coming weeks, with an automatic transfer for customer accounts in July, a spokesperson tells us.

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Less than five years ago, Abi Caswell had never baked a cookie.

Yes, but: Today, her bakery can barely keep up with the demand for her gooey confections that are so popular, she ships them around the country.

Catch up quick: Caswell, who was known for her cakes, experimented with a chocolate chip cookie, and the results catapulted her reputation.

• She's now the founder of Batter, a Hammond-born bakery that since December includes a CBD outpost on Baronne Street.

Dig in: The secret to her constantly-popular cookie, Caswell says, is a dedication to real butter and its unique shape.

• "Our cookies are tall and mounded to give you the texture of cookie dough, which is my favorite type of cookie to eat," she laughs. "I like eating cookie dough out of the fridge."

The intrigue: Caswell has documented her bakery's growth on social media, creating day-in-the-life style content on TikTok that kept going viral.

• But ultimately, she says, "what has put us more on the map on social is I'm an honest person. I say everything: the good, the bad, the ugly. And the internet is really interested in the ugly."

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🌳 Audubon Aquarium Plaza, which is part of Woldenberg Park, reopened Thursday after $5.39 million in renovations. (Press release)

• Meanwhile, Audubon continues work on its $30 million Riverfront for All park project. (Renderings)

👀 HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be in Baton Rouge on Friday as Gov. Jeff Landry signs legislation aligned with Kennedy's "Make America Healthy Again" campaign. State lawmakers passed several bills while echoing talking points from Kennedy and his supporters. (The Times-Picayune 🔒)

👋 Hello to Spicy Mango, Larry Morrow's new Caribbean-Creole fusion restaurant now open on Frenchmen Street.

• And goodbye to Yo Nashi, which closes July 19. Check out our omakase experience there.

⚾️ LSU will celebrate its latest national championship tomorrow at Alex Box Stadium. (Sports Illustrated)

🏛️ The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a former Louisiana inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off by prison guards. He says it was a violation of his religious beliefs as a Rastafarian. (AP)

A stolen plaque commemorating New Orleans' deadliest fire has been replaced ahead of the blaze's 52nd anniversary today.

Why it matters: The intentionally set fire at the Up Stairs Lounge killed 32 people and was the deadliest attack on U.S. soil against the LGBTQ+ community until the Orlando Pulse nightclub mass shooting in 2016.

The big picture: Mourners will gather at 7pm today at the new plaque for a solemn ceremony to remember the dead, says Frank Perez, executive director of the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana.

• The new plaque replaces one the city dedicated in 2003 at 604 Iberville St. It was stolen last year.
• Perez said they raised enough to fund the new plaque, insure it and pay for maintenance and some future commemorations.
• "It's a very good feeling, let me tell you," Perez said.

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Virtually all New Orleans metro homeowners are at "major risk" from heat- and wind-related natural disasters, a Zillow analysis finds.

Why it matters: That seems ... uh, pretty bad.

Between the lines: Most homeowners are also at "major risk" for flooding-related disasters too, though that's where the findings begin to reflect a reality that minority homeowners are particularly vulnerable to climate change.

• More than 90% of Black and Asian homeowners in the New Orleans metro are at "major risk" for flooding, compared to 85.8% of Hispanic and 75.9% of white homeowners, the data shows.

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