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Taster’s Choice winners listed

Many started the Mardi Gras season off Wednesday evening at the annual Taster’s Choice. A crowd gathered at LSUE Acadian Center for ‘tasting and sampling’ of different foods during the eighth annual Taster’s Choice (Le Courir De Mardi Gras Pour Le Clinic).

DOTD announces St. Landry, Acadia road project

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development announced that beginning Monday construction will begin on a $575,000 project on La. 367 (Bayou Mallet Highway) from La. 370 (Richard School Road) to U.S. 190 in Acadia and St. Landry parishes.

St. Landry School Board committee assignments announced

Following the election of Candace Gerace as St. Landry Parish School Board president and Mary Ellen Donatto as vice president, the Board’s committee assignments were announced.

School Board sets makeup days, OKs 2018-’19 calendar

The St. Landry Parish adjusted the school calendar to make up days lost due to weather. Superintendent Patrick Jenkins said seven days were lost to winter weather that included snow and ice conditions. The St. Landry Parish School Board approved the following: Wednesday will be a full day of school.

LSU system is a linchpin to success in the state

LSU, including LSUE and all eight campuses of the LSU family, is the linchpin in Louisiana’s success. When I spoke at LSUE’s commencement last semester, I looked out over the sea of excited faces and realized that I was seated within the engine that drives the future of this city.

Memo to Dan Rather: Shut up about memos

Old liberal media liars never fade away. They just rage, rage against the dying of their dinosaur industry’s light. I’m looking at you, Dan Rather.

I’m still cheering for Trump

Donald Trump sure hit it out of the park Tuesday night. Like millions of other people in America who tuned in to the president’s first State of the Union Address, I’m still cheering. I wasn’t in Washington, in Soviet California, or anywhere else in Trump’s America.

Mardi Gras runs nearly died away

Courirs de Mardi Gras, rowdy horseback runs through south Louisiana’s countryside, now rival urban parades and pageants as local celebrations and attractions for visitors. They have deep roots in many smaller communities, but they were nearly done in by World War II.

Acadiana beef field day set for March 3

The Acadiana beef cattle producers field day will be held March 3 at the LSU AgCenter Iberia Research Station. Registration starts at 8 a.m., and the program begins at 8:30 a.m. The program includes: — Effects of cover crops on soil health.

Crime Stoppers seeks information about Eunice business burglary

St. Landry Crime Stoppers needs the public’s help in solving burglary of a business in Eunice. On Feb. 5, deputies were dispatched to the 1600 block of U.S. 190 at Tire Engineers for a burglary. The manager arrived at work and noticed one of the bay doors to the shop had been pushed in.