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An amendment to the 2022 – 2023 city budget will give all elected officials in Rayne a pay boost.

Four condemnations were approved by the Eunice Board of Aldermen at their Tuesday meeting.
Three other properties are on their way for Show Cause hearings next month. The Show Cause is to decide on condemnation.

After a series of bomb threats at parish high schools, a St. Landry Parish School Board committee voted to forward the issue to its Executive Committee meeting.

Mitch Fontenot, principal at Eunice High School, is named the 2022-2023 District High School Principal of the Year.

City holiday hours announced
Mayor Scott Fontenot has granted full-time, non-civil servant employees of the City of Eunice, Dec. 23 off for the Christmas holiday.

The St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office held its annual Triad Christmas party for senior citizens at the Yambilee in Opelousas on Dec. 7.

The Eunice Chamber of Commerce will present its annual Christmas Parade of Lights beginning at 6 p.m. today.
The parade will begin on North 2nd Street, will continue on 2nd, and Park Avenue, and will end near S. 9th Street.

By Harlan Kirgan
Editor
Outgoing Police Chief Randy Fontenot stressed police officers need better pay in his final session at a regular Board of Aldermen meeting.

By Harlan Kirgan
Editor
Despite the St. Landry Parish Council voting 9-3 in April to move a monument to Confederate soldiers off the Courthouse grounds, the 102-year-old structure remains in place.

The St Landry Parish public schools will close Wednesday due to anticipated severe weather.
Also closing is the LSUE campus.
LSUE and the parish campuses are to reopen on Thursday.