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Eunice Police arrests

The following are arrests by Eunice Police. Aug. 24 Travis Soileau, 34, 600 block of North 4th Street, Eunice. Operating a vehicle while intoxicated and no turn signal. Raven Dupre, 22, 800 block of South Beulah Street, Eunice. Probation violation.

St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office arrests

The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. Aug. 24 Desiree Nicole Fontenot, 22, 100 block of North Kavanaugh Street, Washington. Accessories after the fact; cruelty to juveniles. Joshua Keith Babineaux, 36, 300 block of Country Ridge Road, Opelousas.

State facing $1B ‘fiscal cliff’

Louisiana legislators have lots of work to do to identify funding sources for the state to survive the more than $1 billion fiscal cliff projected for its 2018-19 fiscal year, state Rep. Beryl Amedee, R-Houma, said. Amedee held a town hall meeting on Aug. 17 at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium.

Raymond Joseph Heinen

EUNICE~It is with the heaviest hearts and great sadness that the family of Raymond J. Heinen announces his passing on Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at his home with loving family by his side. He was 79. A Mass of Christian Burial will be Celebrated at 11:00 am on Saturday, August 26, 2017 at St.

Governor should embrace all tax force recommendations

Louisiana is facing a fiscal cliff of $1 billion next July, and Gov. John Bel Edwards has been pushing for tax increases — but the House is demanding spending reductions instead.

The South’s complicated relationship with its past

All that’s left of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church is the steeple. The red brick is faded and the windows are boarded up. But don’t ask the locals if they’re ever going to tear this monument down.

Learn when to shut up, Mr. President

As we’ve said here before, Donald Trump has to learn to just shut up and let things go. The failure to do that is the worst Achilles heel of a president who seems to have half a dozen Achilles heels.

Cajun Prairie Habitat Preservation Society to meet

The Cajun Prairie Habitat Preservation Society Fall Meeting and Tours is planned Saturday. The schedule and directions include: 8 a.m.: Eunice Restored Prairies; meet at the corners of Martin Luther King and East Magnolia and enjoy the best restored prairie in the United States.

Experience Louisiana Festival to focus on agriculture

The Experience Louisiana Festival will return to the LSUE campus on Oct. 28-29 with a focus on Louisiana agriculture. Dwight Jodon, one of the Eunice Rotary Club festival organizers, said the agriculture theme would be presented in the festival’s village formats.

South Louisiana meets its new congressman

U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson said during a town hall meeting in Eunice that the current House is the most productive in six administrations with 281 substantive bills passed, but only nine to 10 percent of those bills have passed the Senate.