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NEW LEADERSHIP TEAM for the Sisters of Mount Carmel include, from left, Sisters Paula Derise, Kathy Farrelly, Lawrence Habetz (President), Mary Ellen Wheelahan, and Sheila Undang (Assistant to the President).
Sister Lawrence Habetz, O.Carm. heads order’s new leadership team
The Sisters of Mount Carmel celebrated the installation of their new leadership at a Eucharistic Liturgy April 27 at Mount Carmel Academy’s Assembly Center.  Sister Lawrence Habetz, O. Carm. was in...
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From left, Andrew Granger and Alexandra Guidry, were recognized for their participation in the state Science Fair.
Business as usual for APSB
As the school year draws to a close, the Acadia Parish School Board’s May regular session provided the board the chance to recognize student achievement and focus on a new principal for Iota High...
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Joan Theriot-Benoit
Writer, Grief Counselor Theriot-Benoit to visit Crowley May 15
When Joan Theriot-Broussard lost her husband, Bradley Broussard, she was 48-years-old. She soon realized that her entire way of living, aside from the obvious grief she was suffering, was about to ...
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National Day of Prayer this Thursday
Thursday will provide the city of Crowley its annual chance to come together for a night of reflection and the promotion of peace and unity. The National Day of Prayer event, set for 6:30 p.m., Thu...
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With only a few days remaining, DWTS entering final stretch
CROWLEY – In six days, the lights of the Grand Opera House of the South will fall upon 22 dancers, three judges, two masters of ceremonies and a slew of people who are finalizing plans for “Dancing...
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'Dancing' announces pre-show
The Rotary Club of Crowley, Community Outreach Corporation and Crowley Christian Care Center are joining forces to put on an incredible night of entertainment – to improve the community, one donati...
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May 22 proclaimed ACS Day in state
For 100 years, the American Cancer Society has led the fight against cancer. And while cancer is not something to celebrate, the good that ACS has done and continues to do for cancer patients and s...
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One killed in Sunday shooting; worker describes scene
BRANCH - A Eunice man died and two others were injured from gunshot wounds following a disturbance at a Chevron Station in Branch Sunday night. The store is located on the 7000 block of the Churc...
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UPDATE: One in critical condition following Branch shooting
BRANCH - After 8 p.m. Sunday, May 19, the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office responded to a shooting at the Chevron Station (AJ's Mini Mart) off of Church Point Highway (Highway 35). Three were injured...
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New Iberia woman gets 26 months in $12 million IRS scam
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
LAFAYETTE – A New Iberia woman was sentenced Monday to 26 months in federal prison and for filing false claims of more than $12 million with the IRS and receiving tax refunds she was not owed. She...
Martin will put $20 million into Chopin plan upgrade, expansion
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CHOPIN – Gov. Bobby Jindal and President and Chief Financial Officer Roy O. Martin, III of RoyOMartin-Martco Ltd. Partnership announced Monday that the company will invest $20 million to modernize...
Trio of personal care attendants face Medicaid fraud charges
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
ZACHARY – Three Zachary women are charged with Medicaid fraud, each accused of filing false claims. All three were arrested May 15 by the State Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit with a...
Louisiana quartet pays heavy price for outlawing deer in Iowa
May 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
RED OAK, Iowa --Four Louisiana men from Kentwood, Roseland and Ponchatoula were found guilty of poaching Iowa deer from a case that started when someone made a call to the Turn in Poachers hotline....
Gator complaints keep Morgan City offiicals busy
May 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
MORGAN CITY — Alligators continue to be spotted in people’s yards and neighborhoods in Morgan City, a problem police have been dealing with for about a month, which could be due to several differen...
Agents looking for whooping crane's slayer
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are looking for leads regarding a whooping crane that was found...
Sandra Ruth Morgan
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Funeral services for Sandra Ruth Morgan, 71, were held on Monday, May 20, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in Duhon Funeral Home Chapel, Rayne. Father Kendal Faulk officiated. Interment followed in Ebeneze...
Deaths Elsewhere
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Long-time vet METAIRIE – Services for long-time vet Dr. Thomas Melius, Jr. will be Thursday. He died May 19 at age 90. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was former veterinarian for Aud...
Deaths Elsewhere
May 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Nursing homes owner ALEXANDRIA – Services for former Louisiana Nursing Home Association president Finley C. Matthews, Jr. are Monday. He died May 15 at age 78. He was owner/operator of Naomi Height...
Deaths Elsewhere
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Hospital executive LAKE CHARLES – Services were Saturday for hospital executive Dave Usher. He died May 15 at age 62. He was senior vice president of business development at Lake Charles Memorial ...
Don Louis Leblanc
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
  Rayne, LA - Funeral services will be held at Gossen Funeral Home Chapel, , May 17, 2013 at 10:00 am for Don Louis Leblanc, 92 who died Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at Lafayette General Medical Center...
Julia Ann Dupuis
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Rayne--Funeral Services will be held at 12:00 pm on Monday, May 13, 2013 at Duhon Funeral Home in Rayne for Julia Ann Dupuis, 63, who passed away on Saturday, May 11, 2013 at her residence in Churc...
Gary Berry Arrest
May 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
RAYNE - Officers with the City of Rayne Police Department arrested Gary Berry of Biloxi, MS for Possession of Stolen Things valued over $500 and an outstanding warrant from Biloxi Police Department...
Nathaniel Laughlin arrested
May 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The City of Rayne Police Department executed a search warrant at the residence of Nathaniel Laughlin, who is 27 years old, located at 702 Chappuis Street, Rayne LA on May 4, 2013. Officers located ...
Nicolas Barron Arrested for Burglary
May 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
RAYNE - Officers with the City of Rayne Police Department arrested Nicolas Barron of Rayne for Simple Burglary and Possession of Stolen Goods. Chief Carroll Stelly advised that on the night of May...
Donovan Phillips arrested in Rayne
May 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
The City of Rayne Police Department arrested Donovan Phillips, 19, for Resisting and Officer and Illegal Possession of a Stolen Firearm. Chief Carroll Stelly advised that on April 29, 2013, Rayne ...
CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER SENTENCED IN FEDERAL COURT FOR CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES
Aug 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 62 62 recommendations | email to a friend
Defendant receives 40 years in prison and lifetime supervised release Alexandria, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Oscar Stamper, age 61, of Natchitoches, La., ...
State Police Detectives Investigate Officer Involved Shooting
Aug 08, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
LAFAYETTE- Today, detectives with Louisiana State Police were requested by the Lafayette City Marshal to investigate a shooting involving one of their agencies deputy marshals. The initial invest...
Fire was big threat to towns
by Jim Bradshaw
May 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Fire was a huge hazard to south Louisiana communities in the days before modern firefighting equipment and good water supplies, when wooden homes and buildings were illuminated by oil lamps and can...
Remembering Mary Alice
by Jim Bradshaw
May 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
It's hard to believe that today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Mary Alice Fontenot, the newspaperwoman, teacher, and storyteller who knew and was known by practically everyone in Acad...
Cinqo de Mayo and Louisiana
by Jim Bradshaw
May 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Cinqo de Mayo, the fifth of May, commemorates the Mexican army's defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, It was a huge victory for the Mexicans who were outnumbered two to ...
Smokestack marks old plantation
by Jim Bradshaw
Apr 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
Midway between Jeanerette and Baldwin on Hwy. 182, part of an old smokestack rises forlornly above the cane fields. It once stood above what some historians say was the finest sugar factory in Lou...
The death of Guillaume Barjeau
by Jim Bradshaw
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
In October 1788, César Archinard, Edward Murphy, and François Brunet were sent to the Bayou Chicot community by Nicolas Forstall, commandant of the Poste des Opelousas, to investigate the sudden de...
Adventure of a pioneering priest
by Jim Bradshaw
Apr 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Father William Teurlngs labored for 62 years in southwest Louisiana and was a giant in the early history of the Lafayette diocese. A Dutchman, he came to Louisiana in 1895 to become assistant pasto...
On amendments, we recommend ...
Oct 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 6 and a very busy ballot awaits taxpayers. With early voting underway, we remind everyone that there are nine state constitutional amendments on the ballot and one loc...
Mitt for President
Oct 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
You have seen and heard the candidates running for president. After a year or more of listening to all the rhetoric it is time to make a decision. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, you shou...
Editorial - Boustany for Congress
Oct 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
These are excerpts from the editorial in which we recommended Rep. Boustany in the 2008 election. Little has changed other than that his dedication to all the people in the Seventh District has rei...
Editorial - We recommend
Oct 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 6 and a very busy ballot awaits taxpayers. With early voting underway, we remind everyone that there are nine state constitutional amendments on the ballot and one loc...

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How PBMs are changing pharmaceuticals
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You like going to the corner drugstore when you need to pick up a few things - aspirin, cough medicine for the kids, shampoo, household items and your prescriptions - all in one stop. You might eve...

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Amendment #1
Oct 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
Vote for Constitutional Amendment #1 . A vote for Constitutional Amendment #1 will protect TOPS funding by redirecting annual Tobacco Settlement proceeds from the Millennium Trust to its col...
A dog hating, church-goer with a cold
by Howell Dennis
Apr 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
To say this week has been one of the stranger ones I’ve experienced during my six years is....well, for lack of a lesser used word, an understatement. To begin with Easter Sunday was very nice. I k...
Who’s on first?
Oct 27, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
There are a lot of folks confused about the recent report on the unemployment rate. Some have the audacity to suggest that the numbers have been rigged by the federal government at 7.8 percent (...
Romney vs Obama
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Compare the free enterprise system with socialism. Capitalism, the free enterprise system and individual initiative made this country the greatest in the world where thousands, no millions strive t...
Professional engineer to his employees
Aug 23, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
A friend of mine sent the following letter to me from a professional engineer reportedly written to his employees. It is rather lengthy but I believe it expresses the views of every business ...
It ain't about bunnies, eggs or barbecues
by Howell Dennis - Editor
Apr 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
Happy Easter Acadia Parish! It seems I say this every year but it bears repeating that today isn’t about rabbits, eggs, candy or barbecues. Today marks the date that Christians around the world ce...
The lesson every father should teach
by Howell Dennis
Feb 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 99 99 recommendations | email to a friend
When I was around 13-years-old, the most popular video game in the history of the world at that time was called Asteroids (showing my age, right?). My parents would drop my buddies and me off at th...



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