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Veterans should consider politics to serve country

Rebecca Chaisson

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Military veterans of the United States it is time to seriously consider returning to serve your country (Just for a few years). This time not in uniform, but in the political sector.

And they came for the leprechaun, too

Rebecca Chaisson

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

I’m right infrequently enough that I like to point it out when it happens. This time, I wasn’t only right. I was downright prophetic. A few weeks ago, in a column about “cancel culture,” I touched on the elimination of certain team mascots as a capitulation to toxic wokeism.

The troubles with Biden’s brain

Rebecca Chaisson

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York got a special Emmy last year for his nauseating daily pandemic press conferences. So why shouldn’t President Biden win something this year from his Hollywood supporters for his series of wildly untrue Afghanistan speeches about the evacuation of Kabul?

Lafayette man dead after boating incident

Rebecca Chaisson

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents are investigating a fatal boating incident that occurred in Catahoula Parish on Sunday. The body of Kevin E. Evans, 50, of Lafayette, was turned over to the Catahoula Parish Coroner’s Office to determine an official cause of death.

Brock Jorden Comeaux

Foul play suspected in man’s disappearance

Rebecca Chaisson

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives are seeking information in the disappearance of Brock Jorden Comeaux. Comeaux was last seen on Jan. 2 in the neighborhood of Bird Village, south of Rayne. Comeaux is described as a white male, 29 years of age, 5’6” in height and weighing 180 pounds.

Photos of missing teen Thomas Pousson. (Photo from the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s website)

Boy, 15, missing since Saturday

Rebecca Chaisson

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

A 15-year-old boy from the Eunice and Basile area has been reported missing since Saturday, according to a news release from Evangeline Parish Sheriff Charles Guillory. The sheriff’s office as notified at 7:45 a.m.

Participants in the Cajun Prairie Habitat Preservation Society’s May meeting are shown at the Eunice site. The society plans its fall meeting this Saturday beginning at its Duralde site at 8 a.m. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Cajun Prairie fall meeting is Saturday

Rebecca Chaisson

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

The Cajun Prairie Habitat Preservation Society will hold its fall meeting Saturday. The public is invited to attend. The meeting starts at 8 a.m. at the Duralde Restoration Site. The meeting continues at 10:30 a.m. at the Eunice Restoration Site.

Friends of the Depot Museum have organized a Le Table de Francais “French Table."

French Table at Eunice Depot

Rebecca Chaisson

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Friends of the Depot Museum have organized a Le Table de Francais “French Table” at 9:30 a.m. every Wednesday at the Eunice Depot Museum on 220 South CC Duson in Eunice.The public is invited.

Insurers ordered to pay evacuation costs for Hurricane Ida

Rebecca Chaisson

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon directed insurers Tuesday to pay policyholders’ expenses for evacuating from Hurricane Ida as damaged infrastructure and dangerous living conditions in Southeast Louisiana continue to keep people from returning home.

Parish sales tax revenue growth slows

Rebecca Chaisson

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Total sales tax collections in St. Landry Parish through August were up 1.3% over the same period in 2020, according to the monthly report released by St. Landry Parish School Board sales tax division.