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Farmers and craft market organized in Church Point

More than 50 vendors participated in the first-ever Church Point Farmers and Craft Market on June 20. Mike Burrough, one of the event’s organizers, said, “I am very happy with the turnout. The prices are good, there are plenty of vendors and the food is fantastic. It really is a success.

From The Eunice News files

From the August 2009 files of The Eunice News. Plenty of activities at North Eunice Baptist VBS. North Eunice Baptist Church held its Vacation Bible School last week, with an “Outback” theme. Above, Cathy Darbonne leads participants through a “blind trust” obstacle course.

The dive into the ‘maintenance hole’

I have a long history of dumb ideas. It was my idea buy a used, 1999 diesel Volkswagen Beetle. There’s a reason you don’t see many of them on the road today. It was my idea, as a boy, to play darts near our old gas furnace. How was I supposed to know a dart could puncture a gas line?

Early birds were too late for Hadacol show

Hadacol made history in Lafayette on Sunday, Sept. 3, 1950, when its Good Will Caravan staged the biggest show the town had ever seen, and also created its worst traffic jam.

Earning big bucks in state government

How do you put a dollar value on the worth of a public official? Attorneys working full time for the LSU Health Sciences Center are asking to be paid more than $400,000 a year. So how do you justify such large increases? How about this idea?

LSU awards 609 degrees at summer commencement

LSU alumnus and Chair of the Board of Supervisors James Williams delivered the keynote address, and 609 students received degrees during LSU’s 299th commencement ceremony on Friday. LSU President F.

Eunice High school AP scholars honored

St. Landry Parish public school students who passed Advanced Placement examinations were recognized the St. Landry Parish School Board meeting on Thursday in Opelousas.

How are Eunice 3rd, 5th graders doing on the state LEAP tests?

As school starts this Thursday for Eunice public elementary students, parents can take comfort that the schools are largely out-performing their counterparts in the parish and matching or exceeding those in the state.

Away from home at the right time

Jeanette Freeman stands in front of her apartment that was struck by a pickup truck at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Freeman, 61, said she left the Sweetridge apartment on West Maple Avenue about an hour before the wreck.

Library may reopen this week

The Eunice Library will reopen this week following its split from the Opelousas-Eunice Public Library in July. On Friday, Mayor Scott Fontenot said, “We are going for a soft reopening the end of next week.