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

A morning of reflection for women is being offered by Petals of Mercy, a Theresian community in Eunice, on May 7. The event will take place in the Jeanmard Hall at 250 N.

Eunice Players’ ‘Aboveboard’ auditions Sunday In person auditions for “Aboveboard” written by Peter Bloedel & Emily Kimball will be held at Eunice Players’ Theatre at 2 p.m. Sunday.

BATON ROUGE — Of the 144 seats in the Louisiana Legislature, Democrats hold 47, and even fewer of those members espouse progressive ideas. At the federal level, progressives like Sen.

BATON ROUGE – Louisiana’s higher education officials are encouraging tens of thousands of students to get COVID-19 vaccines before returning for in-person instruction next fall, but they do not plan to require it.

It was John Burson Day Sunday at Bobcat Field as the Eunice baseball program retired the long-time assistant coach’s jersey in a pregame ceremony. Burson spent 41 years as a teacher and coach at Eunice High and left a legacy as a mentor and the head of the Social Studies Department.

Quinon Pitre, 31, of Pitreville, is one of 12men missing from a lift boat that capsized in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday 8 miles south of Grand Isle. Six people were rescued and one person, the captain, David Ledet, was found dead in the water.

St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard said he wants to use part of $15.9 million coming to the parish to fix a $82,000-a-month prisoner housing expense.

Rice planting is wrapping up in south Louisiana, but wet weather has kept farmers out of the fields in the north. “It’s moving along pretty fast,” said Todd Fontenot, LSU AgCenter agent in Evangeline Parish.

Our comments several weeks ago about Hank Williams and his Cajun anthem Jambalaya, brought a note from Keith Simon about his great grandfather Dosette Guidry, who may have played the first version long before Hank and his imitators knew what a jambalaya was.