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Eunice Police Radio Logs

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. February 14 06:49 Suspicious vehicle at Fairgrounds tennis court. 07:41 Traffic crash reported at W. Vine and N. 4th St. No injuries reported. 10:18 Report of a railroad crossing guard down at N. Hwy. 13.

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Veterans Outreach Clinic in Church Point U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins will hold a veterans outreach clinic from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Church Point Community Center, 104 E. Darbonne St., Church Point. This is the first of six outreach clinics planned this year.

Citizen of the Year nomination tells Nesbitt’s story

Rick Nesbitt was awarded the Eunice Rotary Club’s 2019 Citizen of the Year Award on Wednesday. John Pucheu, chairman of the club’s Citizen of the Year committee, presented the award. The Rotary Club was founded in 1924 and has given the Citizen of the Year award since 1942.

From the February 2010 files of The Eunice News

From the February 2010 files of The Eunice News

The fire that changed everything

Joseph Kaufman and Frances Munzesheimer planned to be married on March 7, 1875, but on March 6 announced that the wedding was “unavoidably postponed . . . on account of the illness and consequent non-arrival of the minister who was to officiate.

Can we have more middlebrow citizens?

“Middlebrow.” I sit typing this column on the 20th anniversary of the massive heart attack that took the life of my father, and “middlebrow” is one of the words that pops into my mind when remembering Dad.

Nearly all our presidents were big baseball ‘bugs’

Out of all our presidents, not many are suspected of being indifferent to baseball. The most notable is probably Thomas Jefferson, who no doubt considered games that involve balls frivolous, and would distract him from his multiple intellectual pursuits.

Murphy Oil CEO says company growing Gulf offshore presence

Murphy Oil Corp. CEO Roger Jenkins returned to Morgan City on Tuesday and brought some business with him. Jenkins spoke to the Atchafalaya Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City.

Brown shares stories of a political life

Speaking with his native Missourian version of a southern drawl was former Louisiana state senator, secretary of state, and commissioner of insurance Jim Brown as he met with the Rotary Club of Ville Platte Tuesday.

DeVillier’s election cost publication is now law

State Rep. Phillip DeVillier’s bill requiring public entities calling a tax election to provide an estimate of the election’s cost is now law. The bill is in effect for all bond, debt and tax elections called after Sept. 23, 2019.