Jimmie Edwards Sr.
Jimmie Edwards Sr. is announcing his candidacy for re-election to the St. Landry Parish Council District 12 seat.
Edwards said he has been a resident of Eunice and District 12 for over 50 years.
Qualifying for the upcoming elections will be Tuesday through Thursday in both St. Landry and Acadia parishes.
Karlos Knott at Bayou Teche Brewing in Arnaudville. (Photo by Raymond Partsch III)
Karlos Knott and his brothers took a family tradition and transformed into a business.
I’ve always been told that the Acadians were a largely unlettered people, and that’s certainly true. So how did they come to give their children the names of Greek deities?
From September 1945 files of The Eunice News
The Pearl Harbor assassins signed — on the dotted line — in Tokyo Bay on the battleship Missouri’s deck a formal and unconditional surrender to the United States, Great Britain, China and Russia.
The Live Oak Medical Park and Hebert Medical Group off U.S. 190 in Eunice is shown during construction. The facility opened Aug. 31. The 10,000-square-foot medical facility preserved live oak trees. (Photos by Myra Miller)
What you see resting upon two acres, graced with large oak trees, located between the Purple Peacock and Ardoin’s Marble Works on East Laurel Avenue, is opened to the public.
Jack Burson, alderman at-large
The city’s path to a master plan took some new turns Thursday with discussion by the Eunice Economic Development Committee and an announcement by Jackon Burson, alderman at-large.
Don Reber, chairman of the development committee, announced his resignation as chairman on Aug. 20.
William Wimberly, seated, at right, in white coveralls, helped to recover bodies in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Wimberly is now a general manger, funeral director and embalmer at Ardoin’s Funeral home in Eunice. (Submitted Photo)
The images were awful — people stranded on rooftops painted with the words ‘Help,’ dead in lawn chairs in front of the other Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and others floating in the floodwaters.
Improvements to the Eunice airport are on the city council’s agenda for its meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Eunice Municipal Complex.
Four resolutions pertaining the airport are among the agenda items approved during an agenda-setting meeting Thursday.
Making accordions and knowing how to play an accordion should go hand in hand, according to accordion-maker Larry Miller.
The St. Landry Parish School Board approved a $144 million budget with a lone dissenting vote from Eunice area board member Albert Hayes.
Hayes objected to school activities, which he said costs families up to $400 and force them to take out high interest loans.
Bill Fontenot
The St. Landry Parish Government’s president should be paid $140,000 a year and current president Bill Fontenot is placing that change for a vote on the council’s October agenda.
The president’s salary of $65,000 established when the parish home rule charter was adopted in 2003.
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.
