The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio logs.
June 19
05:55 Damage to property, 600 block South C.C. Duson; Damage to trailer.
12:54 Traffic wreck, Rodney and Laurel; Citation.
From June 1945 files of The Eunice News.
Sgt. Roy V. Long, husband of the former Mable Arnaud of Eunice, was killed in a bombing raid over Germany before hostilities ended. The couple was married in June 1944.
As we routinely talk to others around the world via our modern communications technology, it’s hard to imagine—even for graybeards who remember when several folks shared the same party line and calls were still made through a lady operating a big switchboard—what a wondrous thing telephone serv
Deacon David Guillory, left, with The Eunice Ministerial Alliance and Mary Anne Guillory, executive director of the Eunice Food Bank, stand in one of the store rooms at the food bank’s new location at 251 Park Avenue. The new location has twice the space as the previous location at the Northwest Community Center. (Photo by Claudette Olivier)
The Eunice Food Bank is now located at a centralized location at 251 Park Ave., and food distribution is continuing as usual.
The Rev. Billy Turner
Glen William Turner came from rough stock, from coal miners from West Virginia.
They apparently were very poor, but truthfully. I know little about his family, and I haven’t seen any of them in decades.
Pine Prairie mayor Terry Savant was stunned when he found out that the Pine Prairie Correctional Center was closing its doors.
David Scott LaFleur had fans in the stands as he earned MVP honors and LSU Eunice won its fifth NJCAA baseball national championship last month in Enid, Oklahoma.
Convicted murderer Phillip DeSelle has found new residency in Evangeline Parish.
According to the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office Offender Watch website, DeSelle’s new approved residency is 7262 Highway 167 N Ville Platte, Louisiana 70586.
Louisiana’s overall labor force and the number of people employed in the labor force set records for the third month in a row in May, according to seasonally adjusted data released today by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Kimberly Russell has been selected as chancellor of Louisiana State University Eunice.
Kimberly Russell, LSU Eunice’s first woman chancellor and the only female of the final four chancellor candidates, will take over as head of the campus on Sept. 1, and reaction to her selection as chancellor has been positive.
William Nunez is shown on the LSU Eunice campus in March. Nunez, the third chancellor of the campus, reflected on some of his tenure during an interview in March. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
In March, LSUE Chancellor William Nunez sat down for an interview in his office, but not really.
It wasn’t long before Nunez, who had announced his retirement in the fall, was up and pointing out photos on the wall to explain the physical progress on the campus.
Steve Moosa, CPA, explains the 2014 St. Landry Parish Government audit report to the Parish Council Wednesday. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
St. Landry Parish Government collected about $6.9 million from a 2 percent sales tax in 2014 that funded the Smooth Ride Home program.
The first-time sales tax collection for the road program was reported in an audit accepted Wednesday by the St. Landry Parish Government.
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.
