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St. Edmund grad banking on corn for college

With the ever increasing cost of college tuition and the ever increasing cuts to the state’s Taylor Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS), students and their parents are sent scratching to find ways to cover the difference.

Farm Service Agency holding an election

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director Courtney Francois in St. Landry Parish reminds farmers and landowners that FSA is holding an informational meeting about the 2018 County Committee Election process at 2:30 p.m. June 28 at the St.

Award at LSUE

LSU Eunice and Campus Federal Credit Union honored several members of the LSUE staff recently and the university’s Faculty and Staff Appreciation Dinner.

LSU professor explores possible impact of flooding with storm surge

Living in Louisiana has its perks, but with the good comes the bad—flooding and hurricanes.

From The Eunice News files

The following are from the June 2007 files of The Eunice News. Janet Prudhomme was awarded the LSUE Foundation Staff Excellence Award. Supreme Rice Mill of Crowley was acquired by Louisiana Rice Mil.

The incredible power of fathers

Editor’s Note: This column is an excerpt from Tom Purcell’s humorous book, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood,” available at Amazon.com. My 84-year-old father still asks me why I did it.

Stinging critters and cable ferries

Am I misremembering (it happens regularly after a certain age), or are the mosquitoes late this year? We haven’t had a substantial rain at my house since the middle of April, and that may be why I haven’t heard the perennial summertime buzzing in my ears.

Did you know? Juvenile detectives are specially trained

Our juvenile detectives are specialized members of law enforcement specifically trained to investigate incidents involving juveniles who have committed a crime or who are victims of a crime committed either by other juveniles or adults.

Eunice News described man shot as a ‘desperate character’

Another front page headline in The Eunice News on June 22, 1971, read, “Man shot at Frey’s desperate character” The Eunice News article read, “The man killed in the attempted robbery of Harry Frey home was apparently one of the South’s “Public Enemy Number Ones.

There was day at Mowata when the bad guys lost

Events that happened 47 years ago seem like they happened yesterday to Warren Frey of Mowata. “I remember it like it was yesterday. The fear and trauma to my entire family was unreal. The robbers were known as the ‘Dixie Mafia,’ and the head of this mafia was killed,” Frey said.