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The decorations for Mardi Gras have been cropping up across Eunice for weeks as the city anticipates its first street party since 2019. This one is on Park Avenue at the Veterans Memorial on Wednesday morning. On Mardi Gras that area should be filled with people celebrating Mardi Gras. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Mardi Gras cleanup is Saturday

Rebecca Chaisson

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Volunteers are needed for a targeted cleanup before Eunice’s Mardi Gras. Donna Baltakis, director of Keep Eunice Beautiful, said no registration is needed. Volunteers only need to show up at the City Hall beginning at 8:30 a.m. Saturday to participate. The cleanup will last until 11 a.m.

3 dead in violent night here, area

Rebecca Chaisson

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Tuesday was violent night in St. Landry and Evangeline parishes. In Eunice, police were called to Acadian Medical Center at 8:40 p.m. about a gunshot victim. At 8:52 p.m. it was determined the gunshot victim was from an incident in Evangeline Parish.

Eunice Police Radio log

Myra Miller

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. February 15 01:24 Suspicious vehicle at O’Reilly’s. 01:48 Suspicious person in the area of Dudley. 04:23 Suspicious subject in the area of the 200 block of Acadia.

St. Landry Parish Sheriff arrests report

St. Landry Parish Sheriff arrests

Myra Miller

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. February 16 Ray Charles Guillory, 35, 300 block of Cushman Road, Opelousas. Home invasion, criminal trespassing. Arrested by St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Marquita Ann Fuselier

Myra Miller

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

EUNICE–It is with heavy hearts that the family of Marquita Ann Fuselier announces her passing on Monday, February 14, 2022, at the Acadian Medical Center in Eunice at the age of 85. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 19, 2022, at St.

Thelma Leger

Myra Miller

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

EUNICE–It is with great sadness that the family of Thelma Leger announces her passing on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, at the Acadian Medical Center in Eunice at the age of 82. A Celebration of Life will be celebrated at 1 p.m. on Friday, February 18, 2022, at Ardoin’s Funeral Home Chapel in Eunice.

Deacon Willie Roy Johnson

Deacon Willie Johnson

Myra Miller

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

EUNICE–Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 19, 2022 at New Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 251 Nimitz St., Eunice, for Deacon Willie Roy Johnson, 68, who entered eternal rest on Thursday, February 10, 2022 at his residence in Eunice.

State Senate President Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, sponsored the Republican bill to redraw the maps for the state Senate. (Photo by Alex Tirado/LSU Manship School News Service)

Senate, Supreme Court districts approved

Rebecca Chaisson

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Two weeks of debate, public testimony and pleas from activists for greater minority representation culminated in a 40-minute Senate floor meeting Monday that advanced two Republican bills mostly maintaining the status quo of the state Senate and Supreme Court district maps.

Research by Stanley Nelson, an author and former Louisiana newspaper editor, will be featured in the FRONTLINE show. (Photo courtesy of Wes Faulk and Stanley Nelson)

Longtime Louisiana newspaper editor’s work featured in cold case documentary

Rebecca Chaisson

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

The work of a longtime Louisiana newspaper editor will be included in a PBS FRONTLINE documentary Tuesday on the 1967 Ku Klux Klan murder of Wharlest Jackson, a 37-year-old Black man in Natchez, Mississippi. Jackson, who had five children, was treasurer of the Natchez NAACP.

Statewide burn ban issued due to concerning dry conditions

Rebecca Chaisson

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Due to the extremely dry conditions statewide and the overwhelming emergency responses recorded by local fire officials, State Fire Marshal H. “Butch” Browning, along with Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, have issued a statewide cease and desist order for all private burning.