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French Table at Eunice Depot
Friends of the Depot Museum have organized a French Table at 9:30 every Wednesday at the Eunice Depot Museum on 220 South CC Duson in Eunice.
The public is invited.

Favoring OPEC over USA to lower gas prices is an insult

As the supply of oil is now being outpaced by the growth of demand, gasoline prices are climbing across the country. Yet, the Biden Administration has asked OPEC – not domestic producers and USA energy workers – for help to supply the U.S.

Unemployment rate trends downward

Preliminary data for July released Friday by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) shows Louisiana added 12,700 seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs from June.

Big memories of Little League

The thwack of a baseball colliding with a bat and the thump of a folded newspaper landing on a porch are sounds I cherish. They’re rewinding for me this month while watching the Little League World Series.

Have you thanked a school bus driver lately?

According to CNN, pandemic fears and enhanced unemployment benefits have left the nation facing a serious shortage of qualified school bus drivers.

We have a long tradition of gossip

I have a mind’s-eye vision of Jean Gaudet as a crusty old Frenchman, sun-burnt, with dark, work-hardened hands, capable of doing what had to be done to wrest a simple life from the soil. He was probably an independent old cuss.

Eunice Police radio dispatch logs

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs.
August 19
06:56 Gas drive off from 24/7 Truck Stop and Casino.