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The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office.
February 18

John Stevens Cormier passed away on Saturday, February 19, 2022 at the age of 70. A Funeral Service will be held at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, February 22, 2022 at Quirk & Son Funeral Home of Eunice. Burial will follow in Mt. Calvary Cemetery.

On the final day of the redistricting session, the Louisiana House and Senate passed bills Friday that turned back efforts to expand minority representation and preserved the current balance of power in the state’s congressional delegation and the

Rusty Sanner, a native of Milton, is known as a Master Cajun accordion builder and musician. Sanner was the guest speaker at the Eunice Rotary Club meeting Wednesday.

A quarter of a million dollars.
That’s the amount that I’ve paid in FICA payroll taxes during my working career, according to my recent Social Security statement.

Yes, receipts do seem to breed like rabbits in my poor overstuffed-with-credit-cards-and-gift-cards-and-loyalty-cards-and-hastily-scribbled-notes wallet.
But that’s my personal problem to sort through at home in my quieter moments.

We knew there was oil under the Gulf of Mexico long before we drilled for it. So much of it bubbled to the surface about 10 miles south of Sabine Pass that schooner captains called the area the “Oil Ponds.”

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs.
February 17
05:29 Female sleeping in the Tobacco Plus parking lot.
06:52 Disturbance in the 300 block of Mill over keys.

Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene of a shooting that occurred at the intersection of Woodstone Road and St. Julien near Chataignier on Feb. 15.

St. Landry Crime Stoppers needs help in solving a shooting in the Opelousas area.