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Eunice Police Radio log

Eunice Police Radio log

Eunice Police Radio log

Myra Miller
Monday, September 12, 2022
The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. Traffic stops are not normally included. September 8 05:22 Caller advised that a vehicle hit a trash can across from Kim’s Market. 07:01 Report of a vehicle driving recklessly nar Amazon.
News notes items

News notes items

News notes

Myra Miller
Monday, September 12, 2022
Acadian Ambulance hosting Acadia Parish Health Fair Acadian Ambulance and Ochsner Acadia General Hospital, in collaboration with the Office of Public Health Region 4 and Geesey-Ferguson Funeral Home, are hosting a health fair from 8 a.m. to noon Sept.
From left, are Mayor Scott Fontenot, Caroline Manuel and LSUE Athletic Director Jeff Willis. (Photo by Myra Miller)

From left, are Mayor Scott Fontenot, Caroline Manuel and LSUE Athletic Director Jeff Willis. (Photo by Myra Miller)

College town banner

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, September 9, 2022
The last of the LSUE banners was placed Wednesday morning in front of the Liberty Theater. With the sponsorship and donations from Dr. Caroline Manuel of Caroline Manuel Orthodonist, downtown 2nd street is looking like a junior college town. Dr.
Ornamental pepper plants are the perfect way to both spruce up the late summer landscape and celebrate the transition into fall. (LSU AgCenter file photos)

Ornamental pepper plants are the perfect way to both spruce up the late summer landscape and celebrate the transition into fall. (LSU AgCenter file photos)

Plant ornamental peppers for spicy fall flair

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, September 9, 2022
The South has no reason for fall foliage envy. The traditional colors of autumn can be found in ornamental peppers — which can be planted into any sunny landscape to add spice and fall flair.

La. Democrats betray Jefferson and Jackson

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, September 9, 2022
I don’t know about you, but I have always loved to read and study Louisiana history. When it comes to examining the giant political figures that had a direct bearing on the stature and even the survival of Louisiana as an American state, two individuals stand head and shoulders above all others.

M*A*S*H, Maude and Kung Fu all turn 50

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, September 9, 2022
I didn’t watch all of them from the very beginning, but several significant TV shows debuted in the fall of 1972. “The Bob Newhart Show” starred Bob Newhart (who turned 93 on September 5) as psychologist Bob Hartley. Bob’s trademark stammer didn’t seem all that noticeable to me.

Trouble on the road to anywhere

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, September 9, 2022
Back in the days when there were no NFL games to keep us glued to the screen of our choice, we regularly piled into my Dad’s old Pontiac on a pleasant Sunday afternoon to take a ride in the country.

Eunice Police arrests

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, September 9, 2022
The following are arrests by Eunice Police. September 7 Juvenile, 16, Eunice. Simple battery, resisting an officer. Juvenile, 13, Eunice. Simple battery, contempt of court. September 8 Juvenile, 14. Illegal carrying of weapon and illegal possession of a handgun by a juvenile.
A whooping crane cares for its chick, hatched during the 2022 nesting season in Louisiana.

A whooping crane cares for its chick, hatched during the 2022 nesting season in Louisiana.

La. whooping crane population adds record 8 wild hatched chicks

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, September 9, 2022
The 2022 breeding season was a big success for Louisiana’s experimental whooping crane project as eight wild hatched chicks have fledged and been added to the Louisiana population.
Map of the Old Spanish Trail completed in 1916. The trail was one of the nation’s first intercontinental highways from coast to coast..

Map of the Old Spanish Trail completed in 1916. The trail was one of the nation’s first intercontinental highways from coast to coast..

Rayne celebrating the Old Spanish Trail

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, September 9, 2022
By Lisa Soileaux Rayne Acadian-Tribune RAYNE — Rayne’s Old Spanish Trail Committee announced that the annual Old Spanish Trail (OST) Day is scheduled Sept. 17 at the Rayne Civic Center and Frog Festival Pavilion.