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The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office.

EUNICE–On Saturday, March 19, 2022, the family of Timmy Luke LeDoux lost their dear husband, brother, uncle and friend at the age of 68 years. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m.

The following are arrests by Eunice Police.
March 20
Kealon D. Harrison, 21, 200 block of South Cane, Eunice. Simple assault, principal to simple assault.

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.