Some of the highlights — and lowlights — of the past year include the construction of a guardrail along Airline Highway, the fight over health care reform, which brought members of President Barack Obama’s cabinet to Reserve, the flooding that plagued the region in December, the opening of Emily C. Watkins Elementary School in St. John Parish, the end to legal wrangling over the future of the Reserve-Edgard Ferry and the bribery scandal and subsequent resignation of St. John Parish President Bill Hubbard.