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Free child car seat installation Free installation of child car safety seats is being offered from 4 to 6 p.m. every Monday at Word Ministries, 1960 W. Laure Ave., Eunice. The seats will be installed by a nationally certified technicians.

History and a Gulf shipwreck

On Jan. 11, 1784, the Spanish ship El Cazador left Veracruz, Mexico, for New Orleans, under the command of Capt. Gabriel de Campos y Pineda. It was carrying 19 tons of newly minted silver coins.

Acadia Police Jury re-elects Savoy as president

Election of officers highlights an otherwise routine meeting of the Acadia Parish Police Jury here Jan. 10. And even that was routine with David Savoy re-elected for his third term as president and Robert Guidry re-elected for his third term as vice president.

A tale of two hospitals: No plan for vacant Moosa Hospital in Eunice

Ten years after the doctors, nurses and patients moved into a brand new hospital, Moosa Hospital remains vacant, boarded up and in a state of decay. Newton “Chip” Thibodeaux, chairman of the St.

From The Eunice News files

From the January 1999 files of The Eunice News. Elizabeth Reed Guillory, of Eunice, was presented the Martin Luther King award at the Liberty Theater as part of the Martin Luther King celebration. She was honored for her work with Parent’s Reach Out.

A tale of two hospitals: Hospital district to be dissolved to clear way for French Immersion Campus

A hospital district that includes portions of St. Landry and St. Martin parishes is to be dissolved with the assets split between the parishes. An agreement to make the split was approved Wednesday by the St. Landry Parish Council to the delight of a crowd of Arnaudville residents.

Church Point man arrested in Texas, charged with residential burglary

Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office investigators, with the assistance of Dayton, Texas Police, have arrested a Church Point man for one count of burglary, according to Sheriff K.P. Gibson. Investigators were investigating a burglary which occurred on Gayle Drive in Church Point.

Former Ville Platte Police detective sentenced for role in burglary

Former Ville Platte Detective Nathaniel Savoy was sentenced to 18 months in prison in November 2016 for falsifying a police report to cover up his own involvement in a “conspiracy to burglarize” a local Ville Platte business.

Questioned Ville Platte Police procedures discussed

VMayor Jennifer Vidrine, for the first time, publicly addressed the Department of Justice’s report citing the Ville Platte Police Department for performing illegal investigative holds”at a City Council meeting on Jan. 17. Vidrine said, “When I read this report, it rocked me to my core.

State’s private sector grows in December as unemployment falls

Louisiana added 2,600 private-sector jobs in December while the state’s unemployment rate declined from 6.2 percent to 6.1 percent over the month, according to seasonally-adjusted data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to a news release from the Louisiana Workforce Commission.