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Advice for reducing heating bills without cutting comfort

Recent unusually cold weather across Louisiana is likely to result in higher utility bills. LSU AgCenter housing specialist Claudette Reichel said you don’t have to give up comfort to control your heating bill.

Fiscal cliff: Experiment of the 60s

EDITORS NOTE: This is the third of a series of articles on the Fiscal Cliff crisis facing Louisiana today.

Raw water: Threat or menace?

Thirty-plus years ago, aunt Addie Lee dropped in on the farmhouse that my parents used for storage and family cookouts. She quaffed a glass of sparkling tap water and waxed eloquent about how our good ol’ spring water put to shame the over-processed H2O from the municipal water works.

Tips sought in theft of 5 ATVs

Crime Stoppers of Acadia Parish is requesting the public’s help to solve a crime. On Sunday, Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives responded to a commercial burglary that occurred in the 7100 block of Church Point Highway in Branch. Forced entry was made into abusiness and give ATVs were stolen.

St Landry Crime Stoppers seeks suspects

St Landry Crime Stoppers is asking the public’s help in locating two suspects wanted by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. Angela M. Barnaba, 44 of the 3300 block of Hwy. 93 Sunset, is wanted for a Jan. 8 theft from the Spirit Truck Stop in Eunice.

Praising MLK, community, mentors and friends

By Harlan Kirgan Editor The annual ceremony to commemorate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the New Zion Baptist Church brought together a community that honored the civil rights leader and often turned to notes of community pride. The Rev.

Parish sales tax revenue rose in 2017

Total sales tax revenue in St. Landry Parish rose 1.8 percent in 2017 compared to 2016, according to a statistics from the St. Landry Parish School Board. Sales Tax Division.

Eunice Police dispatch radio logs

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. Jan. 16 08:07 Loose horse on Minerva Street. 08:16 Horse located at Halsey and Minerva. 08:24 Disturbance in the 700 block of Lewis. 09:05 Trailer stolen and recovered in the 1400 block of Athabaska.

Eunice Police arrest

The following an arrest by Eunice Police. Jan. 17 Floyd Lewis Jr., 42, 1100 block of East Street, Basile. Simple criminal damage to property, theft and simple burglary.

St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office arrests

The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. Jan. 18 Ashley Marie Armand, 43, 100 block of Hwy. 742, Opelousas. Two counts of distribution of schedule II drugs. Linda D. Senegal, 57, 100 block of Quinault Lane, Opelousas. Cyberstalking.