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Acadia School Board committees considers issues for Monday meeting

A number of routine items were considered and forwarded to the full board when committees of the Acadia Parish School Board met. First, the Budget and Finance Committee received the audit/financial report for the school year ending on June 30, 2018.

Drugs, cash, weapons seized at Mermentau

Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies executed a narcotics search warrant in the 200 block of 2nd Street in Mementau on Jan. 31. According to a news release from Sheriff K.P. Gibson, deputies began their search and located 3.

Several receive recognition at MLK celebration

Despite the change of date and the chilling rainy weather, the village people answered with a resounding “Yes, We Got Next!” on Jan. 19 for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration held at the New Zion Baptist Church. The Rev.

President Ocasio-Cortez? No chance

Here’s a scary political thought for all Americans. If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were old enough, and American voters were stupid enough, she could be elected president next year.

Judging by rhetoric

Seventy-one years ago this month — in January 1948 — a black, 17-year-old high school dropout left home. The last grade he had completed was the 9th grade. He had no skills, little experience, and not a lot of maturity.

Swampy past for energy explorers

When oil companies began to realize that muskrats weren’t the only profitable thing hiding in south Louisiana marshes, they also began to realize that exploration and drilling in the wetlands would be unlike anything they’d done before.

Acadia Parish crash leads to arrests for insurance fraud

Detectives with the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit, Lafayette Field Office, arrested four Crowley residents for violations pertaining to Louisiana insurance fraud laws.

St. Landry School Board committee members named

St. Landry Parish School Board committee assignments for the newly elected members have been announced. One of the members, John Miller, died Jan. 28. Chairmen of the Academic and Personnel committees were to be elected at meetings Tuesday.

Francis elected PSC chairman

At the January Business and Executive meeting of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, Mike Francis, R-Crowley, was unanimously elected chairman by the five Louisiana Commissioners for the 2019 term.

La. band’s songs featured in award-winning movie

Picture it, the late 1950s and early 60s, when the music world was turned upside down. Hips were shaking and the beat of songs was in high gear as rock and roll was taking over radio stations, whether listeners wanted it or not.