Spooky times at the courthouse

April Fool’s joke or mischievous spirits to blame for flood?

St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard, right, shows where smelly water flooded Room 206 in the St. Landry Parish Courthouse on Monday. With Bellard is Van Reed, director of emergency preparedness and a parish administrator.

There are some strange happenings at the St .Landry Parish Courthouse. “It is unbelievable,” said Parish President Jessie Bellard of what’s been going on there. “So, Monday whenever they came here and told me about the water leak, I thought it was an April Fool’s joke” he said Thursday in his new basement office. “I went upstairs and it was pouring from one end all the way to the other ... it was…

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