Sales tax collections dropped about 2 percent in Eunice and St. Landry Parish through March compared to same period a year, according to a report by the St. Landry Parish School Board Sales Tax Division.
St. Landry Parish Council members Jimmie Edwards, left, and Coby Clavier talks before Wednesday's Public Works Committee meeting. Clavier is the chairman of the committee. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
St. Landry Parish Government is on its way to paving about 300 miles of roads in the Smooth Ride Home Program, which leaves out about 400 miles of roads in the parish.
St. Landry Parish School Board President Raymond Cassimere, left, and Eunice area School Board member Albert Hayes Jr. hold a plaque recognizing Eunice Junior High School as a Top Gain school in the state’s accountability program. Other Top Gain schools in the parish were Grand Coteau Elementary, Lawtell Elementary, Leonville Elementary, Magnet Academy for Cultural Arts and Port Barre High School. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
Adding “music” to a coordinator of instruction’s job description prompted some School Board members to question whether the position is needed.
The personnel committee recommended “music” be added to the job description, which might have seemed like a fairly easy thing to do.
An agreement between Louisiana Community Bancorp and Tri-Parish Bancshares will form a five-bank holding company, and one of the 10 largest banking institutions based in Louisiana, a news release announced Thursday.
Rice seeds spread onto a field by airplane have sprouted a few days after planting. (Photo by Bruce Schultz)
Good weather set the stage for good planting conditions for the 2016 rice crop in Louisiana.
