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During a recent Evangeline Parish Police Jury meeting City of Ville Platte officials addressed the jury requesting assistance in cleaning city canals.
The popular Celeste fig resists splitting and souring. (LSU AgCenter file photo)
Figs are one of the most widely planted fruit trees in home landscapes in Louisiana. With little care, they will produce crops of juicy, sweet figs every July.
Student volunteers plant buttonbush shrubs, pickerelweed and rose mallows for a bioswale on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus. Doug Dugas / University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Sustainability efforts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette are being noticed from a distance of more than 10,000 miles.
Almost any tree in the landscape, like these southern sugar maples at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station, can benefit from proper fertilizer application. February is a good time to fertilize trees. (LSU AgCenter file photo by Allen Owings)
February is an excellent time to fertilize trees. Most trees are just beginning to enter a growth phase or will within a few weeks.
A fisherman runs crawfish traps off La. 35 on a recent day. According to the LSU AgCenter’s 2017 Louisiana Summary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, there were 245 crawfish producers in Acadia Parish and 42,000 acres of land in crawfish production that year. (Photo by Claudette Olivier/Church Point News)
A fisherman runs crawfish traps off La. 35 on a recent day.
Sports
WESTLAKE – The Lady Bobcats’ basketball season ended Thursday as Westlake grabbed a 67-52 win over Eunice High.
It was a feisty finish as St. Edmund battled to a 45-32 win over rival Sacred Heart of Ville Platte Thursday in the opening round of the LHSAA Division IV girls basketball playoffs.
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Tom Dodge
The annual Perry Pitre Ford baseball jamboree will be held this weekend at both Bobcat and Blue Jay fields.
The girls basketball playoffs begin today with several local teams fighting to advance to the LHSAA state championships to be held Feb.25 to March 2 at Rapides Coliseum in Alexandria.
It was battle between rivals as the Bobcats faced the Raiders with 10 Eunice High seniors playing in front of the home crowd for the final time this season.
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Tom Dodge
Lifestyle
Eunice Junior High School’s History Club is sponsored by Kathy Bollich and Brittany Ardoin.
Eunice Junior High School sent two math competition teams to the Opelousas Junior High School’s competition on Saturday, Feb. 9. The seventh-grade team led by.
East Elementary’s Trail Blazers Club had special guests during their January meeting.
Public Safety
The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Feb. 16 - 18
The following are excepts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs.
Feb. 18
08:02 Road rage heading south from U.S. 190.
Obits
A funeral service for Joyce Lavergne, 83, will be held on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, at the First United Pentecostal Church at 1:00 PM.
Funeral services for Eva Mae Denton, age 73, were held on Saturday, February 9, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. at Owens-Thomas Funeral Home in Ville Platte, and burial was in the St.
A Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be held Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 11 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Iota for Burney James Bobbett, 61, who was born Feb.
Agnes Marie Reiners, fondly known to many as “Aunt Agnes,” passed away Feb. 7, 2019, in Homer.
Funeral services will be held Monday, Feb. 11, at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of Geesey-Ferguson Funeral Home for Linda LeBlanc Meche, 75, who died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, at 9:48 p.m.
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