Antioch Baptist Church3501 Hwy 828Farmerville318-368-3591Early Worship – 8:30 a.m.Sunday School – 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m.Bethel Temple Pentecostal Church2144 Hwy 33 N.MarionSunday School -11 a.m.Sunday Worship -12 p.m.318-608-6766Canaan Baptist Church502 Canaan Church Rd.SpearsvilleSunday School -10amSunday Worship -11am870-312-3440Bro. Brian WilliamsConway BaptistChurch Homecoming4323 HWY 549North of FarmervilleDean Baptist Church2309 Hwy 827MarionSunday School – 9:45 a.m.Sunday Worship – 11 a.m.Wed. 6:30pm318-292-4463Another blessed …

BATON ROUGE, La. — Gov.Jeff Landry has paid a fine andadmitted to accepting nearly$13,000 in unreported flights,closing an ethics case that criticssay highlights his disregard fortransparency and his growingcontrol over the very watchdogsmeant to hold him accountable.The Louisiana Board of Ethicsvoted Friday to approve asettlement requiring Landry topay $900 for failing to report aprivate jet trip to Hawaii in 2021,along …

President Donald Trump said he will deploytroops to New Orleans, the first such deploymentto a Red state.After his deployment of the National Guard ledto a significant decrease in the crime rate, the presidentfeels emboldened to recreate his strategy inother cities around the country. While he has floatedChicago and New York City as his next top targets,both in heavily Blue states, …

MONROE, La. (KNOE) – Chronic Wasting Disease is quietlyspreading through Louisiana’s deer population, and state officialssay it’s no longer just a distant threat.CWD is a fatal brain disease that affects deer, and it can take upto two years before symptoms show. That means a deer might lookperfectly fine when you spot it in the woods, but it could be infected.“Just …

Our state is oiled and primed to launch huntingseasons for this year. Doves become legal in ourpart of the world on Saturday, September 6.The first of the three-way split seasons opens inthe North Zone (see wildlife and fisheries regulationsas to the location of the line separatingNorth from South zones) September6-28 giving hunters the chance to engagein the year’s first hunting …

President Trump is suggesting that the national guardcould be used in additional American cities besides thenation’s capital, and has included New Orleans on hislist. I have no problem with this, but we need to do a lotmore on our own here in Louisiana.There is a wave of irrational violence in cities all overthe state. Baton Rouge and New Orleans have …

It goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway): Thelate, great Ruston journalist Wiley W. Hilburn Jr., mydepartment head for 34 years, taught me a lot aboutwriting. And that includes column writing.I would often proofread his column, “Fragments,”a staple in two area newspapers for decades.In the process, we’d discuss his topics, hiswriting, how he got his ideas – indeed, a …

As a child dinosaurs came into vogue. Toy dinosaursets were sold from the Sears and Roebuck Christmascatalogues. The Peabody Museum, a part of HarvardUniversity, produced a set of drawings depicting lifeduring the Jurassic period and earlier. One could lookat the realistic paintings and visualize what itwould be like to live millions of years beforeman’s dirty little footprints trod the planet.Books …

At last week’s Commission meeting, I asked howmuch our jurisdictional utility, SWEPCO, pays to be amember of the Southwest Power Pool (“SPP”), one oftwo Regional Transmission Organizations (“RTOs) doingbusiness in our state, but the SPP representatives inattendance were not able to answer that question. I havesince found the answer — $14 million per year. I havealso found out that our …