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Etouffee Cook-off greeted with sunshine, cool breeze

Wed, 03/23/2016 - 7:08pm

The St. Landry Homestead tent comes down on a windy Sunday for the 31st Annual World Championship Crawfish Etouffee Cook-off. Winners are pictured on Pages 2 and 7. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan)

If the crawfish etouffee was a little too spicy for you Sunday, there was instant relief in the form of 60-degree temperatures and a cool wind. 
Mayor Scott Fontenot was stirring etouffee as he remarked, “It is  great turnout. It ended up a beautiful day.”

Vipers lose status as snakes with the fastest strike

Tue, 03/22/2016 - 11:37am

David Penning, a doctoral student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is leading a research project that challenges some popular notions about venomous snake strikes. Photo by Doug Dugas/University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Vipers—venomous snakes such as rattlesnakes and cottonmouths—are commonly thought to possess the quickest strikes.
Not so fast, according to three researchers at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

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