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Rickey Lane Guillory

Myra Miller

Monday, March 4, 2024

Rickey Lane Guillory passed away on Monday, March 4, 2024 at the age of 64. A Funeral Service will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at Quirk & Son Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Kevin West officiating. Cremation will follow.

Eunice Police Arrests

Eunice Police Arrests report

Myra Miller

Monday, March 4, 2024

The following are arrests by Eunice Police. Friday, March 1 Elizabeth Boone, 29, 300 block of Tate, Eunice. Hit and run, no insurance, no driver’s license. Saturday, March 2 Jonathon Richard, 42, homeless. Eunice. Bench warrant for St. Landry Parish Sheriff. Emery Richard, 36, 1900 block of C.

Eunice Police Radio log

Myra Miller

Monday, March 4, 2024

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. Friday, March 1 4:58 a.m. Suspicious vehicle in the 500 block of South 2nd. 11:09 a.m. Caller said he was blocked in by a truck. 11:45 a.m. Caller said a subject is making a tent in the graveyard near trash can.

Pedestrian struck by a Union Pacific train late Saturday evening dies.

Pedestrian struck by train dies

Myra Miller

Monday, March 4, 2024

A pedestrain was struck by a Union Pacific train Saturday at about 11:45 p.m. The white male subject died from his injuries. The individual has been identified through fingerprints as Camron Fournerat, 22, of Mamou.

News notes items

News notes

Myra Miller

Monday, March 4, 2024

Bulb & Blossom meeting set Tuesday The Bulb & Blossom Garden Club of Eunice will hold its next meeting at 5:30 p.m. March 5 at the home of Fran Guillory. Refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m. following by a meeting at 6 p.m. “Composting and Earthworms” will be the topic of the program.

Floyd Anthony Gaspard Sr.

Myra Miller

Monday, March 4, 2024

EUNICE–It is with heavy hearts that the family announces the passing of Floyd Anthony Gaspard, Sr. on Thursday, February 29, 2024, at the Ruston Regional Specialty Hospital at the age of 72.

During the February meeting of the Bulb & Blossom Garden Club, members expressed their yearning for spring by adorning hats of various shapes and sizes with assorted flowers and butterflies. Members modeling their creations, front from left, are Lynn Pavich and Celeste Gomez. In the back, from left, are Joyce Johnson, Fran Guillory, Martha Guempel, Barbara Wells and Erin Jones. The club’s next meeting is set for March 5. (Submitted photo)

Bulb members ready for spring

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, March 1, 2024

Will forgiving college debt win or lose votes?

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, March 1, 2024

President Biden recently sent an email to 153,000 student-loan borrowers reminding them to vote for him this autumn. Actually, his email said that he is going to put America into even more hock to repay the college loans they had willingly taken out years ago.

Am I overthinking slang?

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, March 1, 2024

As a writer, I can’t deny harboring an appreciation for the richness of slang, metaphors, similes and colloquialisms. And yet…there’s something not quite rational about the agitators who force our language to evolve. (“Come on, participle! Crawl up on dry land! That gerund is beating you!

It was a rice plan to save us from The Bomb

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, March 1, 2024

In the middle 1950s, when the Cold War was at its hottest and we were being drilled on how to survive when the Commies dropped The Bomb on us, an LSU scientist said he’d found just the thing to save us. Rice hulls. And there may have been something to it.