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Many of the artists that participated in the show were on hand Saturday night to enjoy all of the artworks on display. The over 60 works of art will be on display for the remainder of February and will also head to Iota for its 25th Folklife Festival Mardi Gras day.
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CROWLEY – A room filled with art and Cajun music signified one thing Saturday night, it is Mardi Gras time at The Gallery and the Crowley Art Association began the month long celebration Saturday n...
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OPELOUSAS – Investigation continues into a single-vehicle accident that killed an unrestrained elderly man Saturday afternoon. State Police said Paul Johnson, 74, of Opelousas was driving a pickup...
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BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) adopted notices of intent for the 2013-14 hunting season and the 2012-13 Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) General Rules and Regul...
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ABBEVILLE – Applications will be accepted Feb. 12-March 5 for superintendent of the Vermilion Parish School Board. Supt. Randy Schexnayder has announced he will retired in August of next year. The...
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MONROE – A landmark Monroe restaurant - The Chateau - will close in March. The eatery has operated on Louisville Avenue for more than 45 years. Victor Cascio sold the restaurant to Monroe develo...
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As of this writing, no one within the judicial bureaucracy has responded to last week’s column noting that persons accused of sex crimes get special treatment in St. Landry Parish. Minutiae about ...
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PINEVILLE - Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein and Pineville Mayor Clarence Fields announced Wednesday a two-phased plan to vacate the current Central State Hospital ...
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Realty owner LAFAYETTE – Services for real estate company owner Julius Stagg, III will be Tuesday. He died Feb. 4 at age 69. He was owner of Stagg Real Estate and past president of the Southwes...
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RAYNE - Funeral services will be held at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Monday, February 6, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. for Cecile Louise Leonards, 63, who died Friday, February 3, 2012 in Lafayette General Me...
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CHURCH POINT – Eurdley J. Olivier, 76, died Friday, Feb. 3 at 1:07 p.m. Funeral services will be Tuesday, Feb. 7 at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic in Church Point at 2:30 p.m.
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Rayne - Funeral services will be held at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Monday, February 6, 2012 at 10:30 A.M. for Cecile Louise Leonards, 63, who died Friday, February 3, 2012 in Lafayette General Me...
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Funeral services will be held at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. for Carson Ronald Brignac, Sr., 81, who died Friday, February 3, 2012, at his residence in Rayn...
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Funeral services for Edna Arceneaux Stelly, 64, of Lafayette were held on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. in Duhon Funeral Home Chapel, Rayne, Lance Bennett officiated. Visitation was...
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Acadia Parish Sheriff Wayne Melancon stated that the suspect in the surveillance video is being identied as 57 year old Dennis Kurt Hanks of Rue Villian Tray, Baton Rouge. Hanks was arrested this ...
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CROWLEY - The Crowley Police Department is looking to keep the public informed and they plan on using technology to help. After setting up a website with many informative features earlier this yea...
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Crime Stoppers of Acadia Parish needs your help to solve two burglaries at City Bar at 123 East 1st Street. Liquor and money was stolen during the burglaries which happened Nov. 21 and Nov. 24. "Th...
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A Rayne man is charged with aggravated rape. Christopher Paul Bellard, 29, is accused of raping a four year old. Bellard was arrested on an Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office warrant.
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The Crowley Police Department has been hard at work removing various narcotics from the city’s streets. According to Crowley Chief of Police K.P. Gibson the number of narcotics related arrests has ...
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RAYNE - On Sunday morning, October 30, the Rayne Police Department was involved in a pursuit that resulted in the arrest of Joshua Marshall , 32, 200 block of Vatican Road, Carencro for attempted f...
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Louisiana French music began to get a wide national audience in the 1970s after masters of the craft like Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, the Balfa Brothers, Nathan Abshire, and others were in...
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Revisionist historians have been telling us since the Revolution that American history began in the 13 "original" Atlantic colonies and that hardy, English-speaking pioneers pushing across the moun...
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Jean Lafitte was probably the most famous French speaker at the Battle of New Orleans, fought 197 years ago today. But there were some others — mostly former Napoleonic soldiers — who fought well a...
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A boy would likely be laughed out of the first grade today -- or certainly need a nickname -- if he was named the same as his great-grandpa, but it was once the fashion for Acadian families to give...
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The "little red church," on Hwy. 182 between Opelousas and Sunset has no pastor and no Sunday services but still has a large congregation that meets once each year. It's history dates to the year...
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War leaves lasting legacies, sometimes in places and ways that we least expect. That was the story behind the headline in October 1951 about a wedding in Vermilion Parish involving a World War II v...
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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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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...
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Rural Broadband (Good for whole state of Louisiana) We strongly support the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile because it will bring mobile broadband technology to the areas of our state that...
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When push comes to shove, most politicians can’t help themselves -- they value their positions more than the citizenry’s general well being. Such is the unfolding story of congressional reappo...
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Gov. Bobby Jindal has invited the state’s seven congressman to devise a plan eliminating one of their seats. That’s like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. Census figures released before C...
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The election for Lt. Governor did not create much excitement when announced, and was not expected to generate very much interest to the electorate. This was before voters realized that t...
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I remember taking a picture of Chyna Young at Crowley High School back when I was doing the Teen Scene periodical we put out about three years ago. To begin with I recalled (and not in a bad way –...
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From the Internet, “Pigford vs. Glickman” “In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to ra...
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They say you can't judge a book by it's cover. I learned a little something about that this week when I was asked to write a story about Tracy Gray, a man with a medical condition (I think it was...
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Alexandre Mouton, grandson of the governor and nephew of the general, made the best cane syrup in the world. At least that's what the judges at the St. Louis World's Fair said in 1903. They gave it...
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Even though Spanish adventurers sailed through the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Mexico beginning in the 1500s, the coastline of Louisiana was mostly uncharted until more than two centuries later,...
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By Mike Reitz President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana This year’s mid-term elections produced a new set of winners and losers, and with the dramatic shift in power that occurr...
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