The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio logs.
Aug. 12
04:21 Disturbance in the 200 block of North St. Joseph.
08:51 Wreck on West Laurel in front of Whitney Bank.
12:55 Brakes locked up on vehicle on CC Duson and vehicle stalled.
LSUE Early Start Academy sessions
The following is from the August 1997 files of The Eunice News.
The Eunice News reported that a Burger King restaurant would be locating in Eunice. The company had not made an announcement, but Mayor Ken Peart said a grand opening was scheduled Nov. 11.
On Sunday, the St. Landry-Evangeline United Way has listed needs for the Opelousas Civic Center shelter.
Needs are:
Cots or air mattresses (with pump)
Bedding
Pillows
Towels/wash cloths
Toiletries (soap, toothbrushes, deodorant, etc)
Mitch Conover, who has been studying the histories of many south Louisiana families for a long time, tells me that aside from the “straight genealogy” establishing who begat whom, as the Bible would put it, he’s had fun following the lines of folk who weren’t major branches on the family tree — s
