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The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs.

St. Francis Night Out set for March 26
St. Francis will hold Night Out dinner and auction from 6 to 11 p.m. on March 26 inside St. Francis School gym.
St. Francis is located at 490 St. Joseph Ave., in Iota.

EUNICE–Rita Lavergne Johnson, age 89, passed away peacefully on Friday, March 18, 2022, at her apartment surrounded by her loving family and friends. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, 2022, at St.

Nathaniel Adams Coles was 15 when he dropped out of Wendell Phillips Academy in Chicago to pursue a career in music.

A tiny portion of my “day job” at a farm-and-home cooperative involves writing radio commercials and on-hold phone messages.

Some years ago, a fellow from the Cecilia area of St. Martin Parish suggested to me that Spaniards had traveled far up the Teche a long time before the history books said any European explorers got to south Louisiana.

The St. Landry Parish Tourism Commission Visitors Center counted 3,776 visitors in 2021, 25% increase over the 2020 count, according to annual report by Herman Fuselier, executive director.

Arrests reported by the Acadia Parish sheriff include the following.
March 17

There are 12 openings for police officers for the city of Eunice, according to Eunice Police Chief Randy Fontenot at the Eunice Rotary Club Wednesday.

Juvenile crime is on the rise and, with no place to house the violent offenders, Acadia Parish is facing fees of $250 per offender per day to house those juveniles indicted as adults.