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Angler’s passion is catch and release

Sat, 06/04/2016 - 8:00am

Bryce Fontenot reels in his line while fishing recently at Chicot Lake, which Fontenot has fished at for three decades. Fontenot has caught 10 and even 11-pound bass at the lake, but he always throws them back. (Photo by Raymond Partsch III/Ville Platte Gazette)

By Raymond Partsch III
Ville Platte Gazette
VILLE PLATTE — Bryce Fontenot doesn’t keep what he catches.

Inmates tend to the Capitol, grounds

Fri, 06/03/2016 - 1:12pm

Dixon Correctional Institute inmates cook, serve lunch and bus tables (background) to lawmakers, bureaucrats, lobbyists, reporters and tourists in the House Dining Room daily at the State Capitol. Credit: Samuel Carter Carlin.

By Tierra Smith
Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Statehouse is run by criminals – and they probably are not the folks who come to mind.

Top rice geneticist to speak at rice field day

Thu, 06/02/2016 - 3:16pm

Susan McCouch, of the Cornell University Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, will talk about the potential for advances in rice breeding at the annual field day at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station on June 29. (Photo by Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter)

One of the world’s leading rice geneticists will speak at the annual field day at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station on June 29.

4 ordained to transitional diaconate

Thu, 06/02/2016 - 2:09pm

Christopher Blake Cambre

Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel ordained four men to the transitional diaconate Saturday at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Lafayette. These men are Christopher Blake Cambre, Matthew Christopher Hebert, David Michael Rozas, and René Joseph Pellessier.

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