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The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs.

La Table Française in Opelousas Wednesday
La Table Française will take place from 8:30 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Louisiana Orphan Train Museum at Le Vieux Village, located at 828 E. Landry St., in Opelousas.

The St. Landry Parish Government Code Enforcement team invites District 11 residents to its “Code Enforcement Community Day” from 8 a.m. to noon July 29 at 1011 Hwy 357 Opelousas, (previously Weston’s Meat Market).

Crime Stoppers of Acadia Parish needs help to locate a wanted fugitive.

Companion planting involves growing plants together for specific benefits.

We are well into hurricane season here in Louisiana, but we still have a long time ahead of us. The hurricane season officially begins each summer on June 1 and lasts until Nov. 30.

I dream of recreating some of the epic bike hikes I enjoyed as a kid back in the 1970s.
My used Murray five-speed spyder-bike with the high handlebars only cost 25 bucks but it was one of the coolest bikes of the age.

Sometimes topics simply demand more research than a deadline allows.
I couldn’t do justice to this week’s topic, so I’m kicking the can down the road by dishing out another batch of research-free random thoughts.

If you read enough stuff that was written a good while ago, you will eventually run across the claim that Bayou Teche was named for Edward Teach, the infamous pirate better known as Blackbeard.

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Health’s Office of Behavioral Health (OBH) is celebrating the anniversary of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline this week with a focus on growth, increased capacity and the lives that are being changed wi