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From The Eunice News files

From the August 2007 files of The Eunice News. Bottom Line: Nothing too high, or too low. Freshman homeroom teacher Rebecca Berzas, left, and English teacher Alicia Guillory await students during special orientation Wednesday for ninth-grade students at Eunice High. School starts Aug. 10.

News by the numbers

“90% of media coverage of my Administration is negative, despite the tremendously positive results we are achieving.” No need to check the math in President Trump’s recent tweet. For argument’s sake let’s say he’s correct.

Will you survive National Garage Sale Day?

I have browsed umpteen garage and yard sales over the years and used to help my mother display her collectibles in her neighborhood’s miles-long event. But I did not realize that Saturday, Aug. 11, is this year’s National Garage Sale Day until I read it via “U.S. News & World Report.

Did you know? Online payment scams

Continuing our series on online payment scams the Making Payments to Strangers and Tax Refunds and Penalty Scams are wide spread.

Higgins: Tariffs aimed at improving trade

Border security, immigration and the effects of tariffs have been hot-button topics throughout the nation. As far as U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins is concerned, important details of those subjects are missed by merely looking at national headlines.

Tenant left with more than eggs

This is the way the story about disappearing tenant farmers on a south Louisiana plantation has been handed down in the Mouton and Martin families.

St. Landry Parish School Board to operate Head Start in parish

The Head Start center in Eunice is located next to the Southeast Community Center. The St. Landry Parish School Board is to become the governing authority over Head Start on Sept. 1. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan) St. Landry Parish School Board to operate Head Start in parish The St.

Speed bump removal questioned

St. Landry Parish Councilman Ken Marks said when Midway Lane was resurfaced the speed bumps were removed. Now, he says residents are calling him asking what happened to the speed bumps.

Council hacked over IT situation

The fax machine and printer aren’t working in the St. Landry Parish Council office and that was on the agenda of the Council’s Administrative-Finance Committee on Wednesday. Also on the agenda was an item for an update on the IT (information technology) person.

Ville Platte man cited for shooting whooping crane

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents cited a Ville Platte man on July 26 for ashooting an endangered whooping crane in Evangeline Parish. Agents cited Gilvin P.