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Corners good for signs, but would anyone pay attention?
By Jim Butler A candidate in the Oct. 2 city election knocked on our door last week, hoping to get permission to put a sign in the yard. Once I answered the door, the candidate realized that wasn’...
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Nathan Abshire made music legends
The inscription on Nathan Abshire’s accordion box read, “The Good Times are Killing Me.” Eventually, they did. But not before he established himself as one of the best Cajun accor...
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Some pins from Georgie Manuel’s collection. Political pins betokened a different kind of circus coming to town
Even with the oppressive heat and the locusts singing their little hearts out, it’s hard to imagine that fall may just be right around the corner. In the “olden days”, you could always tell the ti...
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School system headed toward financial nightmare
Barring wholly unexpected good news, the St. Landry Parish School Board is heading toward a debacle this time next year. First, the state anticipates a budget shortfall somewhere in the neighborho...
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Don't undervalue role of City Council members
Most of the attention to this point on the Oct. 2 primary seems to be on the mayor’s race even though it’s the City Council where decisions are ratified or rejected. The mayor is the day-to-day ex...
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Today is special to Acadians
August 15, the Feast of the Assumption, is a special day to Acadians around the world. It’s officially been National Acadian day since the first National Convention of the Acadians declared it so ...
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Chief candidate says he's victim of department problem
Randy Fontenot has fallen victim to what police chief candidates claim is a departmental problem – lack of communication. Fontenot is concerned a departmental faux pas might leave voters wit...
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1924 was a real scorcher
On August 2, 1924, during a sweltering heat wave, Father W.J. Teurlings, then the pastor of St. John’s Cathedral in Lafayette, issued this statement to the Daily Advertiser: “At the Ca...
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State must get grip on health care delivery costs
By John Kennedy The state’s health care delivery system costs taxpayers over $7 billion a year. This is expected to grow by $7.1 billion over the next 10 years because of new federal health care l...
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Oil spill by the numbers
The Deepwater Horizon spill is an economic and emotional disaster for the Louisiana Gulf Coast. It could be years before the actual cost is tabulated. That being said, here are some numbers that h...
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Above are an advertising mirror with a picture of Abraham Lincoln, a cardboard hand fan of the Dionne quintuplets dated 1936, a gumbo bowl, a pop-opener spoon and a felt beanie, all advertising Teer Furniture, an early Eunice business that was located where Bertrand’s Office Supply is today. There was a sign still visible on the back side of the building for a while, advertising the store. Small pieces of ‘junk’ can be treasures
It has often been said that one mans’ trash is another mans treasure. I can vouch for that. Over the years I have hauled home more than my share of trash. Excuse me: treasures. In the days before ...
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Above are an advertising mirror with a picture of Abraham Lincoln, a cardboard hand fan of the Dionne quintuplets dated 1936, a gumbo bowl, a pop-opener spoon and a felt beanie, all advertising Teer Furniture, an early Eunice business that was located where Bertrand’s Office Supply is today. There was a sign still visible on the back side of the building for a while, advertising the store. From the Files August 1961
From files of The Eunice News: August 1961 An effort to solve Eunice’s drainage problems is under way. Mayor J.J. Stagg said the state is considering dredging the city’s major canals into Bayou Ma...
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