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John Pucheu, right, chairman of the Eunice Rotary Citizen of the Year committee, presents Alicia Mire with the Citizen of the Year award at Wednesday’s Eunice Rotary Club meeting, (Photo by Myra Miller)

John Pucheu, right, chairman of the Eunice Rotary Citizen of the Year committee, presents Alicia Mire with the Citizen of the Year award at Wednesday’s Eunice Rotary Club meeting, (Photo by Myra Miller)

Mire is Rotary Club’s Citizen of the Year

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, January 14, 2022
The Eunice Rotary Club’s 2021 Citizen of the Year is Alicia Smith Mire. The nomination letter written by Pam Quirk requested the club consider Mire to be honored as Citizen of the Year. Mire is employed by the city of Eunice as director of tourism and Main Street and event coordinator for St.
St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard, right, and Karia Rami, executive assistant and permit officer, open bids at the Jan. 5 Parish Council meeting in Opelousas. Also present at the bid opening was Richard Lewis, code enforcement director. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard, right, and Karia Rami, executive assistant and permit officer, open bids at the Jan. 5 Parish Council meeting in Opelousas. Also present at the bid opening was Richard Lewis, code enforcement director. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Parish Council accepts bids on adjudicated properties

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, January 14, 2022
The St. Landry Parish Council accepted bids on 29 adjudicated properties in the parish at a special meeting on Jan. 5. “This is the first time the parish has done this to this magnitude,” Parish President Jessie Bellard said in telephone interview.
Keynote speaker Domoine Rutledge at Saturday’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 35th annual Citywide Celebration. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan)

Keynote speaker Domoine Rutledge at Saturday’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 35th annual Citywide Celebration. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebrated

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
The city’s 35th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day was celebrated Saturday earlier than the official day of Jan. 17 this year. But Eunice celebration at New Zion Baptist Church came a day after a teen was gunned down.
Eunice Police Chief Randy Fontenot, let, visited with people after Tuesday’s city meeting. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Eunice Police Chief Randy Fontenot, let, visited with people after Tuesday’s city meeting. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Killing, gun violence dominates city meeting

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
A street murder and a Sunday shooting said by Police Chief Randy Fontenot as retaliation dominated Tuesday’s city council meeting. Newly named mayor pro-tem Ernest Blanchard asked Fontenot to speak about the gun violence.

Tri-Parish jobless rates down in Nov.

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Tri-Parish unemployment rates were down in November, but the workforce also declined 1% from 68,178 a year ago to 67,451, according to statistics released by the Louisiana Workforce Commission. The Tri-Parish unemployment rates by parish in November were: St. Landry, 4.8%, down from 7.

Parish sales tax revenue up 10%

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
St. Landry Parish sales tax collections in 2021 totaled $85,658,162, up 10.2% or $7,949,163 over collections in 2020, according to the monthly report released by St. Landry Parish School Board sales tax division.

Central Middle School pivots to remote learning Thursday

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Students at Central Middle School will pivot to remote learning Thursday. A number of students and staff members are quarantined or isolating due to COVID-19. In-person learning will resume Tuesday. The School Board staff is working to issue hotspots to students in need of them today.
News notes items

News notes items

News notes

Myra Miller
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Eunice Area Men’s Retreat set Feb. 3 The Eunice Area Men’s Retreat will be held at Our Lady of Oaks Retreat House in Grand Coteau from Thursday evening, Feb. 3 until noon, Feb. 6. For room reservations, call Don Mayeux at 457-9610 or 457-7624 as soon as possible.
Lindsay Smythe, École Saint-Landry school leader.

Lindsay Smythe, École Saint-Landry school leader.

Registration opens for École Saint-Landry, French-immersion in Sunset

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, January 7, 2022
SUNSET — Registration for École Saint-Landry’s second year is open. “We are so honored to work to provide St. Landry Parish parents this amazing educational option for their children,” said Lindsay Smythe, École Saint-Landry school leader. “Our first year as a school has exceeded all expectations.
The audience at Wednesday’s St. Landry Parish Council meeting Opelousas was mostly filled with people interested in a barricade in a subdivision south of Opelousas. Speak, in blue, is Alexis Thomas of the subdivision. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

The audience at Wednesday’s St. Landry Parish Council meeting Opelousas was mostly filled with people interested in a barricade in a subdivision south of Opelousas. Speak, in blue, is Alexis Thomas of the subdivision. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Parish Council can’t find a way around barricaded road

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, January 7, 2022
The St. Landry Parish Council once again ran up against a barricaded road in a subdivision south of Opelousas. The barricade on Lamar Lane blocks the way to Seminole Lane and separates the Shawnee and Ranch subdivisions.