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Prices up in Fall Harvest Marketbasket survey

Prices at the grocery store have edged upwards in the last six months, according to a survey done by the Louisiana Farm Bureau. The Fall Harvest Marketbasket survey reviews 16 staple food items and this year, found the cost to be $53.92, up from $50.33.

The eye-popping cost of illegal immigration

Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers $116 billion annually, according to a new report published by the Washington, D.C.-based Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Illegal aliens’ presence in the United States has long been debated.

Tell our Yankee friends to butt out

Our friends up north need to let it go. According to a cross section of northern commentators, the Second Reconstruction may be over, but they think a third one may be necessary.  Consider the Washington Post’s take in an Op Ed by their columnist Harold Meyerson.

Tip leads to sex offender’s arrest

A 39-year-old sex offender was arrested recently following a report on Aug. 2 by St. Landry Crimes Stoppers host, Maj. Eddie Thibodeaux, seeking information about Chevez Whitehead Sr., 39, who was wanted for failing to notify law enforcement of his address change. St.

Governor meets with Acadiana leaders

Gov. John Bel Edwards continued his statewide tour meeting with business leaders and elected officials from the Acadiana region on Friday.

From The Eunice News files

The following are from the October 1996 files of The Eunice News. A building permit for about 40 low-income apartments was issued for a site at 1450 West Maple Avenue near the old Jantzen building. The project was named Sweetridge Apartments.

Paddlers compete surrounded by Bayou Teche's ageless charm

On the first Friday of each October, pirogues, canoes, and kayaks of every description crowd the headwaters of Bayou Teche for the beginning of a 135-mile, three-day race down the bayou almost to the Gulf.

Darrell Joseph Alleman

RAYNE - Funeral services were held on Friday, Sept. 29, at a 1 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Rayne for Darrell Joseph Alleman, 59, who died Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, at Lafayette General Medical Center Hospital in Lafayette. Interment was in the St.

Frank Falcon Jr.

NEW IBERIA – Funeral services were conducted for Mr. Frank Falcon Jr., age 72, at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, at Evangeline Funeral Home with his nephew, Deacon Denis LaCroix, officiating.

Catherine Schneider ‘Kitty’ Hensgens

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 12 p.m. Saturday, September 30, 2017 at St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Mowata for Catherine Schneider “Kitty” Hensgens, 84, who died September 28, 2017. Fr. Louis Richard, pastor of St.