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Summer steps to a stunning fall garden

Summer is the best time to just sit back and enjoy your garden. While you’re at it, you can start thinking about fall gardening and planning bigger landscaping projects.

Biodiversity made simple

Biodiversity is simply creating healthy ecosystems that provide natural filtering and cleaning of water and air and maintaining healthy soil. It is important that these natural processes run smoothly because they support a variety of lifecycles and provide us with food and water.

Priest announced at St. Anthony

There is a new priest in town, the Rev. John Dugas. His first day at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church was July 1. In June of 2024, Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel of the Diocese of Lafayette appointed Dugas as parochial vicar to St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church and St. Mathilda Catholic Church.

We need a better load of BS

What a bunch of BS. BS is all over television, blogs, podcasts and newspapers these days. It’s spouted by politicians and pitched by product spokesmen. Modern life is manufacturing an unprecedented amount of it.

Is country music cool?

The rhythm-and-blues-tinged 1962 Ray Charles album “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.” John Travolta’s mechanical-bull-riding adventures in the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy.” The star-making 1990 “No Fences” album by Garth Brooks.

Tarzan movie had a spy story, too

World War I interrupted the filming when the first Tarzan movie was made in the swamps near Morgan City in 1917, and that led to some international intrigue, including the arrest of one of its crew members as a notorious spy.

St. Landry Parish marriage licenses

The following people obtained marriage licenses at the St. Landry Parish Clerk of Court Office. Wednesday, July 17 Can Louis Superman and Sarah Elise Joubert both of Starkville, Mississippi. Thursday, July 18 Nelson Albert Kennerson of Opelousas and Brittany. Javon Washington of Lafayette.

St. Landry Parish civil cases

The following are civil cases filed in the 27th Judicial District Court, Opelousas. Monday, July 15 Credit Acceptance Corporation vs Sharonda M. Beverly, petition to make judgment executory. Succession of Joseph Ryan Fontenot.

Louisiana has least affordable, least efficient coal plant in region

Utility companies in Louisiana saddled in- and out-of-state customers with $340 million in unnecessary costs over the past three years by choosing to run outdated, inefficient coal plants when cleaner, more affordable energy sources were available, according to a recent study an environmental group...

Pine Prairie man arrested for attempted murder, arson

State Fire Marshal Chief Bryan J Adams announced the arrest of a Pine Prairie man accused of setting fire to a home with a family of six inside.