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Louisiana road fatality rate drops to record low in 2024

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
The number of people killed on Louisiana roads in 2024 dropped to its lowest level in five years as more people buckled up and fewer people died in drunk driving crashes, the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission announced Tuesday. The statistics were released in a presentation by Dr.
Raw oysters can pose greater health risks when consumed between May and October due to the prevalence of vibrio, according to the CDC. (Photo by V. Todd Miller/LSU AgCenter)

Raw oysters can pose greater health risks when consumed between May and October due to the prevalence of vibrio, according to the CDC. (Photo by V. Todd Miller/LSU AgCenter)

Are raw oysters safe to eat? A seafood expert has answers

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Two people recently died in Louisiana after eating raw Gulf oysters contaminated with the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus.
Acadia Pairsh Sheriff K.P. Gibson talks to members of the Crowley Lions Club about overcrowding at the parish jail and the need for a regional juvenile detention center. (Photo by Steve Bandy/Crowley Post-Signal)

Acadia Pairsh Sheriff K.P. Gibson talks to members of the Crowley Lions Club about overcrowding at the parish jail and the need for a regional juvenile detention center. (Photo by Steve Bandy/Crowley Post-Signal)

Acadia Parish sheriff: jail is overcrowded

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
The call volume at the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office is the lowest it’s been in the last nine years, but the parish is still paying to house about 70 adult prisoners and eight juveniles in other parishes. Sheriff K.P. Gibson, speaking to the Crowley Lions Club at their luncheon meeting on Sept.

Rocky Mountain sigh

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
(Warning: unfair, but hilarious, Colorado stereotypes ahead!) Well, it finally happened. My eldest and most expensive daughter truly left the nest this time.

Curtailing election fraud in Louisiana

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Paper ballots and limited absentee balloting in our election? That’s what the president is calling for. Does he have a point? The overwhelming majority of democratic countries require paper ballots in their elections.
Planning is complete and events have been finalized for this weekend’s Old Spanish Trail Day Celebration slated for Saturday at Rayne’s historic Depot Square and many surrounding locations in the nation’s first “OST City” of the nation.

Planning is complete and events have been finalized for this weekend’s Old Spanish Trail Day Celebration slated for Saturday at Rayne’s historic Depot Square and many surrounding locations in the nation’s first “OST City” of the nation.

Rayne’s Old Spanish Trail Day Celebration is Saturday

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Planning is complete and events have been finalized for this weekend’s Old Spanish Trail Day Celebration slated for Saturday at Rayne’s historic Depot Square and many surrounding locations in the nation’s first “OST City” of the nation.

Parish sales tax collections dip

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Total St. Landry Parish sales collections through August of $67,703,016 were down 1.9% compared to the same period in 2024, according statistics released by the St. Landry Parish School Board tax division on Monday. The parish collections through August in 2024 totaled $68,982,133.
Hundreds of seniors gathered at the VFW Post 8971 Hall Wednesday for a TRIAD workshop, sponsored by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff Office. There were about 20 different senior citizen’s based vendors on site. Seniors enjoyed Bingo, door prizes, and a free lunch of barbecue chicken and the trimmings. (Photo by Myra Miller)

Hundreds of seniors gathered at the VFW Post 8971 Hall Wednesday for a TRIAD workshop, sponsored by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff Office. There were about 20 different senior citizen’s based vendors on site. Seniors enjoyed Bingo, door prizes, and a free lunch of barbecue chicken and the trimmings. (Photo by Myra Miller)

St. Landry Parish TRIAD meets in Eunice

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Hundreds of seniors gathered at the VFW Post 8971 Hall Wednesday for a TRIAD workshop, sponsored by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff Office. There were about 20 different senior citizen’s based vendors on site. Seniors enjoyed Bingo, door prizes, and a free lunch of barbecue chicken and the trimmings.

Acadia Police Jury faces cost-cutting

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
According to the Acadia Parish Police Jury president, the blame for the current financial issues of the police jury is due to the previous administration’s use of American Rescue Plan Act funds to cushion payroll and benefits.

Council OKs $23.2M bid for sewer plant

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
The city’s plan for a new wastewater treatment facility took another step forward with the Board of Aldermen approved a $23,240,000 bid for the construction at their Tuesday meeting. “This is probably the single biggest project undertaken in the city’s history. It’s needed.