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Tri-Parish schools to share in $41.9M for school improvements

Tri-Parish schools are to receive a share of $41.9 million in federal funding to help struggling schools. A committee of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) Tuesday approved allocations to improve over 500 struggling schools across the state.

A walk, run in the park

x A sunny spring brought walkers and runners to the Eunice Nature and Walking Trail on May 7 after the park had been closed since March. Virginia Tyler, left, and Lisa Soileau of Eunice for a brisk walk. Below, Mark Fontenot of Eunice runs every chance he can get.

Parish to use own resources for spraying

A spraying program to control roadside weeds will have to wait at least a month, but it now appears it is likely to happen. At Wednesday’s St. Landry Parish Council meeting the issue was continued until its Public Works Committee meets on June 3.

Parish Council dreams a little

Like someone buying a Powerball ticket and dreaming about what they would do if they won, the St. Landry Parish Council did a bit of blue-skying about more than $557,000 the parish may get from the CARES Act.

Church Point woman accused of shooting man with shotgun

A Church Point woman was arrested following an early morning shooting on Wednesday. Denise Lyons, 44, was arrested by Church Point Police on a charge of attempted second-degree murder.

State’s jobless rate soars to 14.5% in April

Preliminary data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) shows that Louisiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 14.5 percent for April 2020. Louisiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased by 7.

Robbery arrest

From Eunice Police Chief Randy Fontenot Dalvin Wilson: second-degree robbery. The victim obtained a ride in a vehicle in which Wilson was a passenger. The victim was discussing a handgun he had purchased that day and showing it to the passengers in the vehicle.

Drug bust

From Eunice Police Chief Randy Fontenot Horatio Roussel: Eunice Police patrol officers conducted a traffic stop for traffic violations. The driver could not provide a valid driver’s license and a warrant check revealed that the driver was wanted by another agency.

Flexible admission standards requested

The House Education Committee advanced a resolution Tuesday asking Louisiana universities to adopt a flexible and holistic admissions approach amid the COVID-19 epidemic. Many students were unable to take the ACT in April since it was cancelled due to the virus.

BESE picks Jefferson Parish Schools leader for state superintendent

The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary education has selected Cade Brumley to be the state’s next education superintendent. Brumley has led Jefferson Parish Schools, the state’s largest public school system with more than 50,000 students, since March 2018.