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Myra Miller

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Soccer registration is now open The Eunice Rec Soccer Program is a Co-Ed program, open to youth 4-14 years of age. Participant registration is $45. Registration opened July 22 and will continue through Aug. 22. Season dates are from Sept. 15 through Oct.

How PBS and NPR can go commercial

Harlan Kirgan

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

“The public broadcasting people are too snooty to run traditional advertisements,” I said to a giddy media consultant. “The Trump-backed bill rescinded more than $1 billion in public broadcasting funds,” said the consultant.

The DOE gets Fs in education

Harlan Kirgan

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

It’s only taken 45 years for my father’s dream to come true — at least in part. But thanks to Donald Trump, a Republican Congress and a conservative Supreme Court, the Department of Education is finally being dismantled. My father called for the DOE to be abolished when he ran for president in 1980.

Six ‘Woman With Heart’ nominees for 2025 announced

Harlan Kirgan

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

OPELOUSAS — The Women United of St. Landry-Evangeline United Way will host the 13th Annual Women With Heart Luncheon and Awards event on July 28 at the Opelousas Civic Center. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased online at www.uwsle.

Eunice City Lake stocked with Florida Bass fingerlings

Harlan Kirgan

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

From the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries The Eunice City Lake was stocked with 1,200 Florida Bass fingerlings by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Inland Fisheries Section.

Braylon Dewight Rubin

Opelousas man charged with carnal knowledge of a juvenile

Harlan Kirgan

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

A 21-year-old Opelousas man, Braylon Dewight Rubin, of the 200 block of Percy Drive, is charged was charged Monday with felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile and pornography involving juveniles, according to a news release from St. Landry Parish Sherif Bobby Guidroz.

ICE agents reportedly detain 6 undocumented individuals

Harlan Kirgan

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

St Landry Parish Sheriff’s narcotics agents investigating a report of human smuggling and narcotics trafficking in the 200 block, of Raiders Road, near the Evangeline Parish line found seven Hispanic males at the residence. According to Maj. Mark LeBlanc, public information officer for the St.

The Acadia Parish School Board has adopted a new logo

Acadia Parish School Board adopts new logo

Harlan Kirgan

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

The Acadia Parish School Board has adopted a new logo Designed by Leigha Briolo of Midland High School, the artwork included a fleur-de-lis, a significant symbol in Louisiana, deeply rooted in the state’s French heritage; and an open book, symbolizing knowledge, education, enlightenment and the...

Preston Castille, left, president and CEO at Helix Community Schools, speaks at the St. Landry Parish School Board Committee of the Whole meeting on Tuesday about the opening of new school in Opelousas. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Parish’s new school points to the future

Harlan Kirgan

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

St. Landry Parish’s new public school, Helix A.I. And Medical Academy in Opelousas, will open with at least 400 students in August, according to Preston Castille, president and CEO at Helix Community Schools.

SLEMCO lineman Matt Reed used a hose to douse a house fire near Church Point on July 17. (Submitted photos)

SLEMCO lineman, neighbors save house from lightning fire

Harlan Kirgan

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

From SLEMCO Matt Reed, a SLEMCO lineman from Church Point, and Stephanie Stevens of Bristol were both heading home on Higginbotham Highway last Thursday afternoon when flames shooting from the chimney of a home they had both long admired, made them hit the brakes and step-up to save both the house...