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Is gambling Louisiana’s economic savior?

Football icon Drew Brees certainly deserves all the accolades he has received on the playing field. But now he’s become a huckster for a new gambling casino in Slidell on the Mississippi-Louisiana state line.

Did Acadian exiles get last laugh?

In the dead of winter, when snow piles high in Moncton and Shediac and other places in old Acadie, I sometimes think that Governor Charles Lawrence, who plotted their exile, may have done the Acadians a backhanded favor by sending them to warmer c

Stop and smell the roses this fall

If you’ve been keeping up with your roses, you took care of fertilizing and trimming them in late summer during August or, at the latest, September.

Dianna Faye Ardoin

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. at Ardoin’s Funeral Home in Mamou on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021, for Dianna Faye Ardoin, 61, who passed on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021.
Deacon Gary Gaudin will conduct funeral services.

Opelousas woman dies in mobile home fire

State Fire Marshal deputies continue investigating the circumstances surrounding a mobile home fire in Opelousas that claimed the life of an elderly female.