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The Eunice wastewater plant in 2022. (File photo)

City’s wastewater plant cost soars

Harlan Kirgan

Friday, June 20, 2025

Eunice Mayor Scott Fontenot got shocking news about its proposed wastewater treatment plant improvements. “We put it out for bid. It came back, and anticipating the project was going to be about $16.9 million. We had $17 (million). meaning funds available to start the project.

Parish Council selects Eunice News as its official journal

Harlan Kirgan

Friday, June 20, 2025

The St. Landry Parish Council selected The Eunice News as its official journal for the fiscal year starting July 1. The approval came without comment from the Council members. The Council received bids from The Eunice News and The Daily World for the official journal status.

Courthouse roofing suit settled

Harlan Kirgan

Friday, June 20, 2025

The St. Landry Parish Council approved a $150,000 settlement of the suit over a Courthouse roofing job that went bad.

Eunice Police Radio log

Myra Miller

Friday, June 20, 2025

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. The Police Department changed the format from chronological to one based on officers who responded to calls. Thursday, June 19 There were eight traffic stops from 11:28 p.m. until 1:21 a.m. June 20. Officer B.

Eunice High’s FFA Chapter racked up during the annual FFA State Convention held in Monroe. Tori Cormier, left, Kendall Fontenot, Cameron Fontenot, and Lane Thibodeaux received the Bronze Emblem and Superior Status in the National FFA Chapter Award.

From the June 2015 Eunice News files

Myra Miller

Friday, June 20, 2025

A bee collects pollen from rudbeckia flowers. (Photos by Olivia McClure/LSU AgCenter)

Exploring way to support pollinators

Myra Miller

Friday, June 20, 2025

From the LSU AgCenter If you’ve paid any attention to the news in recent years, you probably know there’s a lot of concern about the decline in pollinator populations. Loss of habitat, overuse of pesticides and other factors have all presented threats to pollinators.

George Harris Sr.

First arrest announced in parish anti-litter effort

Myra Miller

Friday, June 20, 2025

The first arrest in the “Stow It, Don’t Throw It” was made by St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz in a June 18 news release. George Harris Sr., 61, of the 1400 block of Veazie Road, Palmetto, is charged with gross littering, a misdemeanor. Guidroz stated that on May 16 the St.

The Eunice Players Theater will stage “Grease” in July at its South 2nd Street theater. Seated, from left, are Amelia Bourgeois as Marty, Leo Spell as Sonny, Josephine Ohlenforst as Frenchie, and Phillip Cormier as Doody. Standing, from left, are Rose Young as Jan, Joe Aucoin as Roger, Laylah Glland as Patty Simcox, Daxton Broussard as Danny Zuko, Gabe Ortego, Eunice Players Theater president, Liana Reed as Sandy Dombrowski, Amelie Fontenot - Ensemble, Deshae Davis as Betty Rizzo and Hewson Bourgeois as Ken

Eunice Players Theater staging ‘Grease’

Myra Miller

Friday, June 20, 2025

The Eunice Players Theater is celebrating the resurgence of one of its greatest performances by bringing back “Grease” to the theater on South 2dnd Street in Eunice.

Tom Purcell

Let’s return to comfort food

Myra Miller

Friday, June 20, 2025

My favorite summer comfort food is the fried chicken and potato salad dinner my mother made throughout my childhood — one I’ve spent three years trying to reinvent. It turns out I’m not alone.

Danny Tyree

Suffering from a kitten shortage?

Myra Miller

Friday, June 20, 2025

“Rescue me/ Ah, take me in your arms…” — as performed by Fontella Bass. As luck would have it, exactly two months after seven-year-old Moggie cat had to be euthanized (incurable tick-borne cytauxzoonosis), the Tyree family discovered three flea-ridden, emaciated kittens outside the church building.