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Eunice Police Radio log

Myra Miller

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. December 5 00:50 Caller in the 700 block of North 5th requested extra patrol in reference to a subject making threats and banging on the door. 01:45 Theft of a dolly equipment in the 300 block of Rodney.

St. Landry Parish Sheriff arrests report

St. Landry Parish Sheriff arrests

Myra Miller

Monday, December 5, 2022

The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. December 3-December 5 Tamarick Tremaine Collins, 27, 900 block of Park Avenue, Opelousas.

Eunice Police Arrests

Eunice Police Arrests report

Myra Miller

Monday, December 5, 2022

The following are arrests by Eunice Police. December 2 Michelle Porche, 47, 100 block of South Aymond, Eunice. Probation warrant. Brett Michael Lejeune, 33, 600 block of North 8th, Eunice. Theft. December 3 Gary Paul Lafleur, 31, 1400 block of West Vine, Eunice. Sexual battery, rubbing/touching.

Eunice Police Radio log

Myra Miller

Monday, December 5, 2022

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. December 1 06:18 A report of a possible house fire in the 200 block of East Maple. 08:07 A student at Eunice Jr. High does not want to give her phone, cannot make contact with parent.

News notes items

News notes

Myra Miller

Monday, December 5, 2022

Thrive Summit set Thursday in Opelousas The public is invited to the Accelerate St. Landry Parish Thrive Summit from 8:30 a.m. to noon Thursday at the Opelousas Civic Center located at 1638 Creswell Lane in Opelousas.

Students enrolled in Carl Motsenbocker’s Principles and Practices of Olericulture course are donating their produce to the LSU Food Pantry. More than 750 pounds have been donated so far this semester, with more to be harvested. (Photo by Annabelle Lang/LSU College of Agriculture)

The high-density garden with a high impact on campus lives

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, December 2, 2022

LSU horticulture students are learning practices that will stay with them for a lifetime, including how to battle food insecurity in the campus community.

Fallen leaves provide shelter for many butterfly and moth species. (Photos by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter)

‘Leaf’ it to mulch to make your landscape better

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, December 2, 2022

The leaves are falling all over the state now. There are several things you can do with those leaves. One great way to use those leaves to your — and your plants’ — benefit is to use leaf litter as mulch.

Why do we have hate crimes?

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, December 2, 2022

Why do we have hate crimes? There has been a wave of mass shootings in recent weeks. At a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, a shooter killed five people and injured 17 others that has been called a hate crime.

Have you hugged a Santa impersonator lately?

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, December 2, 2022

It has been years since my family last dealt with the “pictures with Santa” pageantry, but Saint Nick impersonators remain an integral part of Christmas for Americans.

Organ grinders, barber poles, civilization

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, December 2, 2022

As with beauty, what constituted a mark of civilization in south Louisiana in days past appears to have been in the eye of the beholder. For example, the Lake Charles Commercial carried a little item in 1882, noting that, “the first organ grinder who ever came to Lake Charles ..