Black ribbons were on the doors of the Eunice Municipal Complex Wednesday morning following the death of former mayor Claud “Rusty” Moody Jr. on Tuesday. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
Former educator and mayor Claud “Rusty” Moody Jr. died Tuesday morning — a little more than a month after his Oct. 7 resignation as mayor of Eunice.
Eunice Mayor Scott Fontenot speaks to the Eunice Kiwanis Club. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
Scott Fontenot, named interim Eunice mayor, said it has been a smooth transition switching from his council seat to the top job at City Hall.
“I’m not going to do anything major,” he said Thursday at a Eunice Kiwanis Club meeting. “I am going to run for mayor in March.”
Evacuees filled the First Baptist Church of Eunice on Park Avenue following Hurricane Katrina’s landfall on Aug. 29, 2005. Former Eunice Mayor Lynn LeJeune said 3,864 evacuees arrived in Eunice. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
Ten years ago today Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas a matter of days strengthened to a Category 5 storm in the Gulf of Mexico.
The huge storm made landfall on Aug. 29 as Category 3.
Jack Burson, Eunice alderman at-large, listens to Don Reber, chairman of the Eunice Economic Development Committee, urge aldermen to act on a master plan for the city during Tuesday’s meeting. At left is Mayor Rusty Moody. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
Talk of a master plan for Eunice elicited a sharp response from Jack Burson, alderman at-large, even as the council approved naming steering committee members by Aug. 18.
The Eunice Board of Aldermen are to meet Tuesday beginning with a public hearing at 6:15 p.m.
