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Williams is elected Ville Platte mayor

For the first time in 12 years, the City of Ville Platte will have a new mayor as Ryan Leday Williams was elected with 54.46 percent of the vote in the election held Tuesday.

Mamou elects new mayor, chief

Voters in the Town of Mamou have elected a new amayor and new chief of police after all the numbers were reported on Tuesday.

Solar farms coming

St. Landry Parish is known for its farms from crawfish to rice, corn to soybeans, but new farms are headed this way.
The farms will harvest energy from the sun.

Grand Coteau’s Thensted Center wins $45,000 grant

Social impact advisory firm KM Strategies Group (KMSG) announced the Thensted Center as the inaugural winner of the KMSG Social Impact Award, which includes $30,000 in unrestricted grant funding and $15,000 in pro bono consulting.

St. Landry Parish sales taxes up 5%

St. Landry Parish sales tax collections through October totaled $75,692,884 and were up 5% or $3,574,745 over the same period in 2021, according to statistics released by the St. Landry Parish School Board tax division.