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Judy Young's student counseling career a challenge from Day One
By Myra Miller myra.miller@eunicetoday.com After putting in 30 years of educational service Judy Young, counselor at Eunice Junior High School, has retired. Young says working as a school counselo...
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Firefighers providing, installing free smoke alarms
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com It’s a good cause for free alarms. One Eunice Fire Department official believes that where there’s smoke, there should be a working smoke alarm. Mak...
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Charge of stalking alleged earlier rape victim dismissed
A charge against a Eunice man of stalking a woman he allegedly had previously raped has been dismissed. Meanwhile, status of the rape charges against him is shrouded in the secrecy imposed by globa...
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'Cop watcher' pleads not guilty
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Proceedings continue in the case of the LSU Eunice student known as the “cop watcher”. Court records indicate that the Monday night arraignment of A...
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From the Files ... June 1938
From files of The Eunice News June 1938 Fourteen St. Edmund graduates received diplomas. The American Legion medals went to James Bollich and Mary Ticac. Valdictorian at Eunice High is Herbert Ba...
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Three women recovering recovering from accident
Three women from Eunice involved in an accident in Lafayette Wednesday were reported on Friday morning to be in stable condition. According to Rev. Tim Moffett, pastor at First Baptist Church in Eu...
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Dist. 6 Fire Chief Jeff Fruge cuts ribbon on new station.
New Dist. 6 fire station solves rail track quandary
A new Fire District No. 6 sub station on the north side of La. 13 eliminates a worrisome potential gap in city-parish fire protection. For years, public officials and first responders have fretted ...
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Jindal expected to sign revised sentence bill for under-18 killers
Gov. Bobby Jindal is expected to sign a bill that provides the possibility of parole for juveniles convicted of first- or second-degree murder, including Chad L. Young and Andrew J. Hundley, senten...
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Reg's best shot was on Utah Beach
Uncle Reg, like many boys of his generation, supplemented the family’s meager groceries during the 1930’s with squirrels and rabbits taken with his open-sight, single-shot .22 rifle. When he was 7...
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Field still open for Eunice High Golf Classic
The annual Eunice High School Golf Classic will be Sunday, June 9 at Koasati Pines in Kinder. It's a 3-man scramble and a shotgun start at 8:30 am. The cost is $270 per team and food will be provi...
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UPDATE: Mayor getting well soon
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Eunice Mayor Claud “Rusty” Moody– who was hospitalized on Sunday following a call from his home to Acadia Parish 911– said that dehydration from not...
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Darnell Fontenot, Eunice High Math teacher, has retired after nearly 25 years in the education profession. Fontenot is pictured with some of her Sophomore Honors Geometry students. From left are Victoria Vasseur, Laken Grouvillia, Celeste Cormier, A.P. Sonnier, Kathryn Arnaud and William Oglesby.
Ex-teacher of the year not closing her books
Darnell Fontenot has officially retired from Eunice High School, however, as she says she will never leave Eunice High completely, “After retirement, I plan to continue teaching online through LVS...
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Sides agree on upgrade of teacher 'sexting' charge, move from city to state court
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com By mutual agreement, the “sexting” case for a former Eunice High teacher is moving from misdemeanor charges in City Court to a felony charge in 27th...
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TRAVEL ALERT, DETOUR AHEAD: East-bound Interstate 10 closed at Whiskey Bay
Louisiana State Police Troop I is reporting that multiple crashes near Milepost 126 (Whiskey Bay) on Interstate 10, eastbound, have forced authorities to close the area of the interstate. Motorist...
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Pickup hits ATV in middle of night, 15-year-old Basile four-wheel driver killed
Investigation continues into why a 15-year-old Basile boy was driving a four-wheeler on La. 757 about 3:45 a.m. Sunday when it was struck by a pickup truck. The boy died later in the day. State Pol...
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City budget squeeze tightens
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com The Eunice CityCouncil narrowly passed absent Mayor Claud “Rusty” Moody’s 2013-1014 proposed budget last week as Mayor Pro-Tem James “Junior” Berger...
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College Road remains closed where a culvert was removed and hasn't yet been replaced.
City doesn't seem interest in state offer of College Road
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Some Louisiana roads are so bad, the state can’t give them away. Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development officials and Eunice city offi...
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50 years between first, last father-son fishing trips
By Jim Butler Fifty years separated the first time my late father and I fished together and the last. The first time, I thought he saved my life. The last time I realized a lifetime had passed. I ...
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Vail after 2013 arrest.
Judge rules Mary Horton Vail murder case can continue
LAKE CHARLES – District Judge Robert Wyatt ruled last week that the state can proceed with its murder case against Felix Vail. He is accused of killing his wife, Eunice native Mary Horton Vail in ...
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Sgt Ryan Fenton, Officer Richard Abadie, Jailer Jessica Sonnier and Officer Dina Fontenot of the Eunice Police Department, look on as they attend the Tuesday night city council meeting.
Council gets community feedback on police
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Emotions ran high as citizens decried alleged harassment by a “few bad apples” within the Eunice Police Department while a couple of citizens spoke ...
Jun 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 99 99 recommendations | email to a friend
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Judge says Richard ineligible to sit on St. Landry School Board
Judge James Doherty, Jr. ruled Tuesday that St. Landry School Board member Quincy Richard, Sr. should be removed immediately. The District Attorney’s Office, responding to a complaint from a a citi...
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Ward 2 Representative Germaine Simpson.
Tuesday council meeting agenda set for police scrutiny
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Eunice city council members gave a preview of what’s in store for Tuesday night’s regular meeting at Thursday’s agenda meeting. Germaine Simpson, Wa...
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City Lake: a winning design for Eunice
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Completion of park-area construction at City Lake marks a new beginning and a happy ending for Eunice. More than 13 years later, the Eunice City La...
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Proposed city budget projects operating shortfall, no revised police pay plan
The Eunice City Council will hold public hearings Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. on its amended budget for this fiscal year, which projects a General Fund operating surplus of $215,000, and the proposed budg...
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