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Some figs, like LSU Purple, turn a dark color as they ripen.

Some figs, like LSU Purple, turn a dark color as they ripen.

Tips for a successful Louisiana fig harvest

Harlan Kirgan
Thursday, July 3, 2025
The figs are green, plump and plentiful. Yes, it’s almost fig harvest season in Louisiana, and soon it will be time to use the delicious, nutritious fruit in preserves, baked treats and other goodies.

Next time, please send smarter bombs

Harlan Kirgan
Thursday, July 3, 2025
The recent 12-day war between Israel and the Islamic regime in Tehran began with a bang — literally — as some of the regime’s most notorious criminals were wiped off the map. It was a surgical strike, and for many Iranians, a moment of relief.

Easy prediction: Time for ice and shade

Harlan Kirgan
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Today’s weather gurus use sophisticated computers to model all of the forecast possibilities as fronts push this way and that, pockets of high or low pressure skip hither and yon, and jet streams meander through the atmosphere, but the imprecise science of weather prediction still comes down to the...

Founding Fathers did not separate church and state

Harlan Kirgan
Thursday, July 3, 2025
At our founding 250 years ago, there was much separation between the original 13 states soon to be called the United States of America (big states v. small states, slavery), and between America and Great Britain.
LSU Eunice Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Symantha Jones is with her sculpture seleced for display at the Acadiana Center for the Arts’ (AcA) annual summer group exhibition, Our Point in Space. (Submitted photo)

LSU Eunice Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Symantha Jones is with her sculpture seleced for display at the Acadiana Center for the Arts’ (AcA) annual summer group exhibition, Our Point in Space. (Submitted photo)

LSUE professor’s artwork featured in Lafayette exhibition

Harlan Kirgan
Thursday, July 3, 2025
LSU Eunice Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Symantha Jones is among the featured artists in the Acadiana Center for the Arts’ (AcA) annual summer group exhibition, Our Point in Space, now on display in the Main Gallery through Aug. 16.
Steve Moosa, right, CPA of Darnall, Sikes and Frederick, presented an audit of St. Landry Parish Government to a meeting of the Parish Council’s Administrative-Finance Committee on Wednesday. The audit is for the 2024 fiscal year that ended Dec. 31, 2024. Seated, from left, are Council members Harold Taylor, Ken Marks, Timmy Lejeune and Ernest Blanchard. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Steve Moosa, right, CPA of Darnall, Sikes and Frederick, presented an audit of St. Landry Parish Government to a meeting of the Parish Council’s Administrative-Finance Committee on Wednesday. The audit is for the 2024 fiscal year that ended Dec. 31, 2024. Seated, from left, are Council members Harold Taylor, Ken Marks, Timmy Lejeune and Ernest Blanchard. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Audit reports parish expenses exceeded revenues

Harlan Kirgan
Thursday, July 3, 2025
The St. Landry Parish Council’s Administrative-Finance Committee approved an audit for the 2024 fiscal year at its meeting on Wednesday in Opeloussas. Steve Moosa, CPA of Darnall, Sikes and Frederick, presented the audit to the committee.

Students improve LEAP Mastery+ rates

Harlan Kirgan
Thursday, July 3, 2025
The Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) on Thursday released 2025 results from the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP), showing a one percentage point increase in overall student proficiency for grades 3–8.

Ex-deputy charged with child porn

Harlan Kirgan
Thursday, July 3, 2025
A former Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy has been indicted on child pornography charges, according to acting U.S.

Tri-Parish workforce increases, jobless rates up

Harlan Kirgan
Thursday, July 3, 2025
The Tri-Parish workforce totaled 68,223 in May, and increase of 823 over the May 2024 count, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission. The Tri-Parish unemployment rates in May were up compared to those of May 2024.