Long-time Eunice at-large city councilman Jack Burson won re-election in Tuesday's primary, getting 61.9 percent of the vote in his race with former Ward 3 council member Chawana Fontenot.
Terry Hoychick led absentee voting in Tuesday's primary for Eunice City Judge with 34.3 percent, followed by Paul Brown, 24.5; Josie Frank, 22.7; and Jay Caswell 18.3.
They seek to succeed the retiring Judge Lynette Feucht.
Three-term District Attorney Earl Taylor led challenger Ellis Daigle with about one-third of St. Landry Parish's vote counted Tuesday night. Taylor had 63 percent of the vote to the former district judge's 37 percent.
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A special Friday night program at Eunice’s Liberty Theater will feature a night with the life, times and music of Jimmie Davis, Louisiana’s “Singing Governor.”
From files of The Eunice News:
November 1943
The War Department’s Highway Traffic Advisory Committee has commended Eunice police for their handling of war-time traffic during the absence of Chief Allen Hundley, Jr.
