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Shall we talk about Medicare?

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, April 25, 2025
When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law on July 30, 1965, did my 5-year-old self truly comprehend the personal milestone that I would someday reach? Nah.

Even little storms sent shrimpers scooting

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, April 25, 2025
If you carefully read your tattered copy of the Army Engineers 1958 report on proposed improvements to Bayou Carlin you will begin to get a glimpse of why folks in Delcambre began to worry this time of year about big storms in the Gulf but kind of liked little ones.

St. Landry Parish marriage licenses

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, April 25, 2025
The following people obtained marriage licenses from the St. Landry Parish Clerk of Court Office. Thursday, April 17 Jonathan Albert Fisher and Peyton Jeane Haynes, both of Opelousas. Martin Rodney Harmon and Jawarnaca Ruth Tyler, both of Opelousas.

St. Landry Parish civil cases

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, April 25, 2025
The following are civil cases filed in the 27th Judicial District Court. Wednesday, April 16 Eric Richard vs Walmart Louisiana LLC, damages. DACO Investments LLC vs Daniel Russell Spell, petition to make judgment executory. Kyedric Raylon Parker Narcisse vs State of Louisiana, name change.
From left, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, Sen. Edward J. Markey, Rep. Troy Carter, Rep. Jim McGovern, Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Alanah Odoms, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, speak with reports during a news conference held April 22 outside an ICE detention facility in Basile. (John Gray/Verite News)

From left, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, Sen. Edward J. Markey, Rep. Troy Carter, Rep. Jim McGovern, Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Alanah Odoms, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, speak with reports during a news conference held April 22 outside an ICE detention facility in Basile. (John Gray/Verite News)

Congress members visit Basile lockup

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Friday, April 25, 2025
U.S. Rep Troy Carter, a New Orleans Democrat, accused the Trump administration of violating the rights of immigrants, including Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Öztürk, both arrested by immigration agents over political speech and shipped to immigration lockups in rural Louisiana. “This is America.
Eric DeBoer, an assistant professor of turfgrass management with the LSU AgCenter, demonstrates using an aerator. (Photo by Olivia McClure/LSU AgCenter)

Eric DeBoer, an assistant professor of turfgrass management with the LSU AgCenter, demonstrates using an aerator. (Photo by Olivia McClure/LSU AgCenter)

Give your lawn some breathing room with aeration

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Friday, April 25, 2025
Do you have a lot of weeds in your lawn? Any areas of thin or dead grass? Does your yard just look stressed overall? These could all be symptoms of a common problem: soil compaction.
Jessica Richardson, a data manager working with the LSU Coastal Sciences department, describes how the marsh acts as important wildlife habitat at Wax Lake Delta. (Photo by Elise Plunk/Louisiana Illuminator)

Jessica Richardson, a data manager working with the LSU Coastal Sciences department, describes how the marsh acts as important wildlife habitat at Wax Lake Delta. (Photo by Elise Plunk/Louisiana Illuminator)

‘A living laboratory’: Accidental delta taught Louisiana scientists how to rebuild wetlands

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Friday, April 25, 2025
Amid the rapid erosion of Louisiana’s coast, something hopeful is happening where the Atchafalaya River meets the Gulf. A flow of sediment from a decades-old river diversion has accidentally given birth to new wetlands.

Resolution targeting economic district tabled

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, April 25, 2025
A resolution requiring parish or municipality approval of projects that negatively affect local taxes was tabled by the St. Landry Parish Council. Parish President Jessie Bellard requested the Council table the resolution that was going to ask the Legislature to amend the powers of the St.

Air quality here gets a ‘B’ grade

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, April 25, 2025
The American Lung Association’s State of the Air” report gave the Lafayette-New Iberia-Opelousas metro area “B” grades for smog and particle pollution The Lung Association’s 26th annual “State of the Air” report grades exposure to unhealthy levels of ozone pollution, also known as “smog,” and...
Maxine West has been chosen as the 2025 Eunice Rotary Club Admininstrative Professional of the Year. West is with her two bosses, Erich Loewer, left, and Steven Moosa of Darnall, Sikes & Frederick, CPAs. (Photo by Myra Miller)

Maxine West has been chosen as the 2025 Eunice Rotary Club Admininstrative Professional of the Year. West is with her two bosses, Erich Loewer, left, and Steven Moosa of Darnall, Sikes & Frederick, CPAs. (Photo by Myra Miller)

West honored with Rotary award

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, April 25, 2025
Maxine West is the winner of the Eunice Rotary Club’s Administrative Professional of the Year Award for 2025. West was presented the award at a luncheon Wednesday at the LSU Eunice Mumphrey Center. It was the club’s 35th annual Administrative Professionals’ Day.