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LSUE releases Spring 2019 Chancellor’s List

LSU at Eunice has named 282 students to the Spring Semester 2019 Chancellor’s List in recognition of their academic achievement. The list comprises full-time students who maintained at least a 3.5 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale during the semester.

Keep Eunice Beautiful urges smokers to watch their butts

Keep Louisiana Beautiful is kicking off a campaign: “Keep Your Butts In Your Pants.” Cigarette butts remain the most littered item in the country. Ninety-five percent of cigarette filters are not biodegradable. Littering cigarette butts are illegal, unsightly and harmful to waterways and wildlife.

There is something about moving day

There’s something about the sound of an empty house. You walk room to room and your footsteps seem to echo as you take inventory of each vacant space. I did it again, just last week. I counted and it was the fourteenth move of my adult life. That’s a lot.

Too much political correctness in Louisiana

I don’t know about you, but I sure am confused about all this current debate over gender equity, gay rights and transgenders. I keep reading in the newspaper about LGBT. I had to look up the lettering to even know what the abbreviation means.

Long’s mental saga held the headlines

Sixty years ago Louisiana and the nation watched with a combination of awe, incredulity, and amusement, a political episode that was bizarre even by the standards of Long-era Louisiana.

Inmate sentenced for Trump threats

U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Buddy Keith Myers, 24, originally from Simms, Texas, and an inmate at Allen Correctional Center in Kinder, Louisiana, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Robert R.

Sisters thrive on pepper jelly

When most people hear the term “pepper jelly,” they normally first think of cream cheese and crackers to be eaten during parties around Christmas.

Eunice Players’ Theatre presenting ‘Godspell’

The Eunice Players’ Theatre is pleased to announce the cast of this summer’s musical, the revised version of “Godspell,” a masterful retelling of the original sensation, injected with contemporary references and dazzling new arrangements.

Kenneth Peart, Eunice’s expert pyrotechnist (and former mayor) plans another July 4th show

The July 4th fireworks show at the Eunice Recreation Complex would cost up to $50,000 if staged anyplace else. That’s one reason to put the 9 p.m. fireworks display on your event calendar. You’ll probably be hard-pressed to find a better display in the area on the Fourth of July.

Why you should watch your bills

Counterfeit money is being discovered throughout Acadiana, with the city of Eunice seeing an influx of it.