Sherman Cottingham, 97 years old, is one of the few living Black Baseball League players from the glory days of 1920-1940’s baseball From the college home base to the Hall of Fame, Sherman Cottingham has achieved what few people can claim to achieve! Sherman Cottingham, a native of Farmerville, LA, the Woodlawn Community, a graduate of Grambling State University, and …

Portable sewage pump at Mayor Crow’s Peaceful Acres trailer park. There is no shortage of need for funding within the Town of Farmerville. The Gazette’s last two editions addressed the critical need for renovation of the town sewage system which daily contaminates Lake D’Arbonne with substances such as fecal coliform, from inadequately treated raw sewage. Most substances exceed the permitted …

Eerily similar to the Kennedy assassination in 1963, on July 13, 2024, a sniper narrowly missed making a fatal head shot while attempting to kill Former President Donald Trump. Trump survived, suffering a bloody right ear wound. Mere hours later the RNC nominated him as its presidential candidate to seek an unprecedented second term, after a four-year hiatus following Democrat …