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Barricades are ready on Park Avenue for the Mardi Gras crowds. Mardi Gras events in Eunice begin Friday with live music on 2nd Street. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Barricades are ready on Park Avenue for the Mardi Gras crowds. Mardi Gras events in Eunice begin Friday with live music on 2nd Street. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

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5-day Cajun Mardi Gras Festival opens Friday

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
From demonstrations on cooking gumbo, live entertainment for five days to a final frenzy of bead-catching, the Eunice Cajun Mardi Festival opens on Friday on South 2nd Street. The schedule includes the following. — On Friday, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Four Horses will entertain, and from 9 to 11 p.
Chief Warrant Officer 5 Bryant Fontenot, a Eunice native, has retired after more than 40 years of federal service. ((Submitted photo)

Chief Warrant Officer 5 Bryant Fontenot, a Eunice native, has retired after more than 40 years of federal service. ((Submitted photo)

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Eunice native Army pilot, Bryant Fontenot, earns honors

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Note: Chief Warrant Officer 5 Bryant Fontenot is a Eunice native and son of Virgil and Eve Fontenot. He graduated from St. Edmund High School in 1980.) By Janeczka Rodriguez After more than four decades of dedicated service, U.S. Army veteran pilot Bryant Fontenot is finally hanging up his wings.

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Presidential primary election scheduled March 23

Harlan Kirgan
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
The Presidential Preference Primary is scheduled on March 23 and it will be closed primary meaning only Democrats and Republicans can vote in their respective party’s primary, according to St. Landry Parish Registrar of Voters Byron Stelly.
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Myra Miller
Monday, February 5, 2024
Etouffee Cook-off sponsors sought The Eunice Chamber of Commerce is seeking sponsors for the 37th Annual World Championship Crawfish Etouffee Cook-off, scheduled to take place on March 23 at the Northwest Pavilion.

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Sheriff’s detective found container leading to manslaughter conviction

Harlan Kirgan
Saturday, February 3, 2024
A St. Landry Parish jury found an Opelousas man, Dewayne F. Poullard, Jr., 28, guilty of manslaughter on Friday for the shooting death of Chance Greene, also from Opelousas.  Evidence at trial revealed that in December of 2019, Poullard shot the victim twice in the torso with a .

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DOTD to hold ‘Road Show’ in Lafayette

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, February 2, 2024
LAFAYETTE – The Joint Transportation, Highways, & Public Works Committee will conduct a legislative public hearing at 1:30 p.m. Thursday for the Acadiana Region (District 3) at the Lafayette Consolidated Government, City Hall Council Chambers 705 W. University Ave., Lafayette.
Registration open until Wednesday for Lil’ Mardi Gras

Registration open until Wednesday for Lil’ Mardi Gras

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Registration open until Wednesday for Lil’ Mardi Gras

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, February 2, 2024
The Eunice Lil’ Mardi Gras run take place Feb. 11 at the Eunice Recreational Complex, at 461 Sittig Road, in Eunice. Line-up begins at 7 a.m. and only registered vehicles will be admitted at this time. Participants can check in at 7:30 a.m.

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Basile Mardi Gras festivities continue

Darrel Lejeune / The Basile Weekly
Friday, February 2, 2024
Members of the Basile Mardi Gras Association have already begun their escapades for the 2024 carnival season, having performed at the Welsh Mardi Gras parade and at a private birthday party in Estherwood on Jan. 27. More pre-Mardi Gras Day events planned are as follows: On Friday, Feb.