Darrell Bourque, former poet laureate of Louisiana, and Goldman Thibodeaux shared a conversation during the the Experience Louisiana Festival on Oct.
Mike LeBlanc of Lafayette prepares for a game of Pétanque during the Experience Louisiana Festival. Leblanc has played Pétanque for eight years and has even met four-time Pétanque world champion Bernard Champey of Ardeche, France. (Photo by Claudette Olivier)
Learning a new language is no easy feat, but grasping a new dialect while also discovering a new pastime can make the transition a bit easier.
St. Landry Parish eighth-grade students scored below the overall state scores in nearly every test area of the Common Core test given in Spring 2015.
From June 1 to Thursday, Oct. 22, the Eunice Fire Department responded to four times the number of grass fires it did during the same time period last year.
Lance Pitre
St. Landry Parish Government is leasing a 21-acre plot northeast of Eunice, but has not used the property since a lease was executed in August 2014.
Phillip DeVillier
Phillip DeVillier won the election for the District 41 state representative seat with 6,308 votes — 56 percent.
A significant heavy rain/flash flood and high tide/coastal flooding event is expected on Sunday.
The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff.
Oct. 23
The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio logs.
Oct. 22
05:57 Fire at 140 Jelks St. Log was on fire in property.
08:29 Attempted break-in at St. Luke’s on Mathilda Street.
The following are arrests by Eunice police.
Oct. 22
Jody Tovarras Thomas, 36, 190 block of Devillier Road, Eunice. Disturbing the peace by public intoxication.
This is the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office arrest report for October 22, 2015.
Tina Soileau and her daughter, Katelynn Soileau, center, watch as Coushatta Casino Resort executive chef James Hamilton and Rodrick James, executive sous chef at the resort, prepare sweet potato chowder at the Experience Louisiana Festival. The Soileaus are from Eunice. (Photo by Claudette Olivier)
By Claudette Olivier
Staff Reporter
When you help cook for more than a dozen different restaurants, it’s nice to slow down for a day and just cook one dish.
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.
