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Swamp milkweed (A. incarnata) is an excellent native milkweed for monarch butterflies. (Photos by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter)

Swamp milkweed (A. incarnata) is an excellent native milkweed for monarch butterflies. (Photos by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter)

Monarch mayday: Send in the natives

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
The monarch butterfly has been listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature on its Red List of Threatened Species.
A check for $4,650 from the Eunice Rotary Club was presented to the Eunice Community Health Center at the club’s meeting on Wednesday. The money is from the Eunice Rotary Zydeco Triathlon held in April. Accepting the check on behalf of the clinic was Alisa Ardoin, right. Also shown, from left, are Rotarians Coby Clavier and Pat Dossman. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

A check for $4,650 from the Eunice Rotary Club was presented to the Eunice Community Health Center at the club’s meeting on Wednesday. The money is from the Eunice Rotary Zydeco Triathlon held in April. Accepting the check on behalf of the clinic was Alisa Ardoin, right. Also shown, from left, are Rotarians Coby Clavier and Pat Dossman. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Rotary donation to Eunice Community Health Center

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
A check for $4,650 from the Eunice Rotary Club was presented to the Eunice Community Health Center at the club’s meeting on Wednesday. The money is from the Eunice Rotary Zydeco Triathlon held in April. Accepting the check on behalf of the clinic was Alisa Ardoin, right.

St Landry Crime Stoppers seeks tips to Eunice shooting

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
St. Landry Crime Stoppers is paying up to $2,500 for information about a shooting that wounded a 17-year-old female. At about 5:45 a.m. on Aug. 22, Eunice Police responded to calls from neighbors hearing gunshots in the area of South 12th and Eddie streets.
The Rev. Mitch Guidry, center, processes into Our Lady, Queen of All Saints Church. Also pictured are Deacon Chuck Ortego (left) and Deacon Ben Soileau (right). (Photo by Tony Marks/Ville Platte Gazette)

The Rev. Mitch Guidry, center, processes into Our Lady, Queen of All Saints Church. Also pictured are Deacon Chuck Ortego (left) and Deacon Ben Soileau (right). (Photo by Tony Marks/Ville Platte Gazette)

Jesuit friend inspired Ville Platte priest

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
Stories of growing up together in Church Point and entering the seminary together were shared as the Rev. Mark Thibodeaux, SJ, delivered the homily during an anniversary Mass for his friend, the Rev. Mitch Guidry, pastor of Our Lady, Queen of All Saints Church in Ville Platte.

Fantasy football’s reality check

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
One must be hooked on the NFL (check), entranced by football wagering (check), and champing at the bit for the season to begin (check) to join a fantasy draft that can take as long as two months to complete (oy).

Princess Di: Has it really been 25 years?

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
Believe it or not, August 31 is the 25th anniversary of the traffic accident that robbed the world of the effervescent Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana was a distant, distant cousin (my great-great grandfather Tyree married Mary Ann Spencer a century before I was born).

Last Island was to be summer paradise

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
Many of us know about Last Island because of the deadly hurricane that hit there in August 1856 and that is still listed as one of the strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in Louisiana.
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The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. Traffic stops are not normally included. August 21 07:00 Several juveniles that were advised to not return at Cafe Mosaic that now has returned. 09:54 Daughter has not retur

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
A victim of a June 2021 shooting in Opelousas read a press release on October 2021 and identified one of the shooters, which led to an arrest, according to a news release from St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz.

School Board reviews school bus safety

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
School buses may be allowed to load and unload students in the far right lane of traffic if the St. Landry Parish School Board approves a policy change. The Board’s Executive Committee mulled over policy changes regarding buses at a meeting Monday in Opelousas.
Louisiana Department of Health officials Dr. Tina Stefanski, left, and Stacy Conrad spoke about virus threats and the rising deadly danger from fentanyl at the Eunice Rotary Club meeting. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan )

Louisiana Department of Health officials Dr. Tina Stefanski, left, and Stacy Conrad spoke about virus threats and the rising deadly danger from fentanyl at the Eunice Rotary Club meeting. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan )

Fentanyl poses severe threat

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
The nation is on the downside of the sixth surge of the COVID Omicron variant, monkeypox is on the emerging and fentanyl is a rising deadly threat. That sums up the message from Dr.