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Air quality here gets a ‘B’ grade

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, April 25, 2025
The American Lung Association’s State of the Air” report gave the Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas metro area “B” grades for smog and particle pollution The Lung Association’s 26th annual “State of the Air” report grades exposure to unhealthy levels of ozone pollution, also known as “smog,” and...
Maxine West has been chosen as the 2025 Eunice Rotary Club Admininstrative Professional of the Year. West is with her two bosses, Erich Loewer, left, and Steven Moosa of Darnall, Sikes & Frederick, CPAs. (Photo by Myra Miller)

Maxine West has been chosen as the 2025 Eunice Rotary Club Admininstrative Professional of the Year. West is with her two bosses, Erich Loewer, left, and Steven Moosa of Darnall, Sikes & Frederick, CPAs. (Photo by Myra Miller)

West honored with Rotary award

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, April 25, 2025
Maxine West is the winner of the Eunice Rotary Club’s Administrative Professional of the Year Award for 2025. West was presented the award at a luncheon Wednesday at the LSU Eunice Mumphrey Center. It was the club’s 35th annual Administrative Professionals’ Day.
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Myra Miller
Thursday, April 24, 2025
St. Francis School crawfish boil set St. Francis School will have a crawfish boil from 5 to 7 p.m. May 9 at the school grounds, 490 St. Joseph Ave, Iota. For a donation of $16 you will have 4 pounds of boiled crawfish with a potato. Deadline for advanced orders is May 7.

Regional juvenile detention center proposed

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
The creation of a nine-parish Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District is now before the legislature. St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard, chairman of the proposed district’s board of directors, said, “Everybody in here knows that we have issues across all nine parishes.

St. Landry Parish awarded $500k grant for blight removal

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
St. Landry Parish Government has been awarded $500,000 to remove about 90 blighted structures throughout the parish. The money is from a Louisiana Community Development Block Grant and was announced Tuesday in a news release from Parish President Jessie Bellard.
The Welcome to Eunice entrance sign on U.S. 190 east received a refresh by members of the Bulb & Blossom Garden Club. Volunteers re-worked the flowering bed and planted Petite Knock out roses as their project for Arbor Day. Other flowering plants, trees and greenery include two Magnolia trees, ligustrums, and Indian Hawthorns. From left are Lynn Pavich, Sarah Bollich, Fran Guillory, Martha Guempel, Christie Spekschate, Mayor Scott Fontenot, Donna Baltakis, David Ingram and Randy Miller. Participants not pic

The Welcome to Eunice entrance sign on U.S. 190 east received a refresh by members of the Bulb & Blossom Garden Club. Volunteers re-worked the flowering bed and planted Petite Knock out roses as their project for Arbor Day. Other flowering plants, trees and greenery include two Magnolia trees, ligustrums, and Indian Hawthorns. From left are Lynn Pavich, Sarah Bollich, Fran Guillory, Martha Guempel, Christie Spekschate, Mayor Scott Fontenot, Donna Baltakis, David Ingram and Randy Miller. Participants not pic

Bulb & Blossom Garden Club renews welcome sign flower bed

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
The Bulb & Blossom Garden Club and Keep Eunice Beautiful have collaborated on many projects over the years. Keep Eunice Beautiful received a grant from Keep Louisiana Beautiful a few years back to replace the damaged welcome sign on La. 13 north and to replant the landscaping.
The plan to close Eunice Elementary remained unchanged at a St. Landry Parish School Board Committee of the Whole meeting on April 15, but an option was added for Washington Elementary. Both elementary schools are to be closed for the next school year and their use changed. Both elementary schools are to be used to enlarge the parish’s vocational technical education. In Eunice, a portion of the elementary school is to be used for alternative classes. A second plan arose at the committee meeting to reassi

The plan to close Eunice Elementary remained unchanged at a St. Landry Parish School Board Committee of the Whole meeting on April 15, but an option was added for Washington Elementary. Both elementary schools are to be closed for the next school year and their use changed. Both elementary schools are to be used to enlarge the parish’s vocational technical education. In Eunice, a portion of the elementary school is to be used for alternative classes. A second plan arose at the committee meeting to reassi

Eunice school plan unchanged, option added for Washington Elementary

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
The plan to close Eunice Elementary remained unchanged at a St. Landry Parish School Board Committee of the Whole meeting on April 15, but an option was added for Washington Elementary. Both elementary schools are to be closed for the next school year and their use changed.
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Myra Miller
Monday, April 21, 2025
St. Francis School Crawfish Boil set St. Francis School will have a Crawfish Boil from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 9 at the school grounds, 490 St. Joseph Ave, Iota. For a donation of $16 you will have 4 pounds of boiled crawfish with a potato. Deadline for advanced orders is Wednesday, May 17.
St. Edmund High Senior Class of 2025 presented the Way of the Cross Wednesday at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. Mary, betrayed by Emma Clause, holds her son, Jesus, Koy Trahan, after he was taken down from the cross. (Photos by Amy Myers)

St. Edmund High Senior Class of 2025 presented the Way of the Cross Wednesday at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. Mary, betrayed by Emma Clause, holds her son, Jesus, Koy Trahan, after he was taken down from the cross. (Photos by Amy Myers)

Easter observance at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church

Harlan Kirgan
Thursday, April 17, 2025
St. Edmund High Senior Class of 2025 presented the Way of the Cross Wednesday at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. Mary, betrayed by Emma Clause, holds her son, Jesus, Koy Trahan, after he was taken down from the cross. (Photos by Amy Myers)

Schools facing grade shock

Harlan Kirgan
Thursday, April 17, 2025
The scoring system for Louisiana’s public schools is about to get tougher and a glimpse of that challenged was presented to the St. Landry Parish School Board on Tuesday at a Committee of the Whole meeting in Opelousas.