The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development announces it is making preparations to close Interstate 10 at the Sabine River, near the Texas State Line, due to flooding. The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning, effective through the early morning hours.
The St. Landry Parish Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday, first at a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. and at 6 p.m. for the regular meeting, both at the Old City Market, 131 W. Bellevue St., Opelousas.
PDFs are attached with the agendas.
The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff.
March 14
The following are arrests by Eunice police.
The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio logs.
U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lafayette man pleaded guilty Feb. 9 to buying drugs overseas and shipping them to himself.
Bulb & Blossom Club meeting Monday
The Eunice Bulb and Blossom Garden Club will meet at 5 p.m. Monday at at the residence of Melba Stelly.
This is the club’s annual plant exchange. All members are asked to attend and membership is welcomed to anyone interested.
From the March 1996 files of The Eunice News.
A group of youth volunteers from Student Life at The Vineyard Church of New Orleans take a break after cleaning a yard on Grand Isle. More than 100 youth volunteers from the group will be in Eunice this summer to assist senior citizens with odd jobs around their homes. (Submitted Photo)
Hurricane Katrina may be one of the first memories of some residents of New Orleans, and those children, now teenagers, are paying forward the love and care their city received following the devastating storm.
Maj. Eddie Thibodeaux, of Eunice, has been named the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office public information officer and Crime Stoppers spokesman.
Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz has named Maj. Eddie Thibodeaux as public information officer and Crime Stoppers spokesman for the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Dwight Jodon, left, explains Eunice’s engagement with cultural issues to a group from Quebec at the at the Prairie Acadian Cultural Center on Thursday. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
Interns from Quebec may be dispatched to Eunice and St. Landry Parish this fall, if plans fall in place that were first discussed at the Prairie Acadian Cultural Center.
Eunice sales tax collections rebounded in January and receded in February compared to the same months in 2015, but notched a 3.4 percent increase, according to a report by the St. Landry Parish School Board Sales Tax Division.
MAMOU – In an impressive showing, Mamou earned a sweep over Eunice Monday in the season opener for both teams.
Dash cam footage of the shooting of the 6-year-old in Marksville.
Karla Bellon, left, and Michelle Brown shop Saturday at Gossip Boutique during the annual Noel on The Prairie.
The 17th annual Noel on the Prairie held Saturday and Sunday in Eunice drew many pre-holiday shoppers with 32 Eunice merchants offering customers discounts and sales. Above are shoppers at Holly’s Hobbies. (Photos by Myra Miller)
Irice Ann Darbonne Lavergne passed away on Thursday November 17, 2016 at the age of 73.
Burial will be held at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Eunice.
