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Impaired driving checkpoint scheduled for Iberia Parish

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, January 27, 2023
Louisiana State Police Troop I, in partnership with the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office, and with assistance from Lafayette Police Department, plans to conduct an impaired driving checkpoint from 8 p.m. 4 a.m. Feb. 2 at an undisclosed location in Iberia Parish.

Mardi Gras research to be presented

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, January 27, 2023
BAJoin Friends of the Capitol Park Museum and the Louisiana State Museum for an evening of pageantry, politics, and Mardi Gras in Louisiana with Jessica Dauterive and Arthur Hardy.
Theodore Foster, PhD and assistant professor of history and African American Studies at Benedictine University in Chicago, will give Black Cowboy Talks in the days leading up to the February 13 performance of Cross That River, a concert musical that tells the story of a runaway slave who became a Black Cowboy.

Theodore Foster, PhD and assistant professor of history and African American Studies at Benedictine University in Chicago, will give Black Cowboy Talks in the days leading up to the February 13 performance of Cross That River, a concert musical that tells the story of a runaway slave who became a Black Cowboy.

Black Cowboy talks scheduled in St. Landry, Lafayette parishes

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, January 27, 2023
Black Cowboys played a major role in the settlement of the American West and are a significant part of today’s south Louisiana culture.
Marc and Ann Savoy at the 2017 Experience Louisiana Festival in Eunice. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan)

Marc and Ann Savoy at the 2017 Experience Louisiana Festival in Eunice. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan)

Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band among featured heritage performers

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, January 27, 2023
The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band is among bands selected by the National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) as National Heritage Fellows to perform at three National Park Service locations within the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve. The performance will occur from March 7 to 11.

Parish Council sets special meeting on budget

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, January 27, 2023
The St. Landry Parish Council has scheduled a special meeting on Tuesday to consider adopting the 2023 operating budget. A public hearing is planned at 5:30 p.m. on amending the 2022 budget and at 5:45 p.m. on the operating budget.
June Inhern, director of Early Learning and Head Start, at Wednesday’s St. Landry Parish School Board Academic Committee meeting. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

June Inhern, director of Early Learning and Head Start, at Wednesday’s St. Landry Parish School Board Academic Committee meeting. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Early learning sites in parish rated ‘High Proficient’ overall

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, January 27, 2023
St. Landry Parish’s Early Childhood Community Network’s 42 sites have an overall rating of “High Proficient,” according to a report by June Inhern, director of Early Learning and Head Start. Inhern said the sites are rated on 1 to 7 and the parish’s overall rating for 2021-2022 was 5.
School Board member Mary Ellen Donatto, left, asks a question about a math curriculum to be introduced next school year. At right is Angela Cassimere, director of Curriculum, Assessment & Accountability. The presentation on the math program was made a meeting of the School Board’s Academic Committee on Wednesday. Donatto is chairman of the committee. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

School Board member Mary Ellen Donatto, left, asks a question about a math curriculum to be introduced next school year. At right is Angela Cassimere, director of Curriculum, Assessment & Accountability. The presentation on the math program was made a meeting of the School Board’s Academic Committee on Wednesday. Donatto is chairman of the committee. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

St. Landry Parish public schools to receive new math curriculum

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, January 27, 2023
Starting next school year St. Landry Parish K-8 students will begin a new mathematics curriculum. And, if that makes parents nervous, the curriculum, iReady Classroom Mathematics, includes help for parents such as “family letter” allowing parents to find out about the week’s lesson.
Robert K. Guillory

Robert K. Guillory

Former state senator Guillory dies

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, January 27, 2023
Robert K. Guillory, who served as a state senator from the Eunice area from 1972 to 1976, died Jan. 25. He was 90 years old. His obituary credits him with writing a bill for a Eunice/Ville Platte Louisiana State University Junior College adding “at Eunice” to it to form what is LSUE.

St. Landry Parish Sheriff's arrests

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, January 27, 2023
January 27 The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. Guillermo Gutierrez, 35, 800 block of St Ann Street, Scott. Bench warrant (2 counts). Arrested by St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. Kendall Clark, 22, 1300 block of 18th Street, Ville Platte.
Raymond Latrelle Howard

Raymond Latrelle Howard

Public asked to be on the lookout for escapee

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, January 27, 2023
Be on the lookout for a 31-year-old Raymond Latrelle Howard, who escaped from police custody at the St. Landry Parish 27th Judicial District Courthouse in Opelousas on Jan. 26 at about 3:30 p.m. He was last seen wearing an orange St.