Several years ago it was announced about the executionof a Syrian archeologist, historian and curator of oneof the most spectacular archeological sites in the MiddleEast. ISIS took this eighty-one year old scholar to thecity square of Palmyra and during the busiest time of theday ISIS decapitated him. His headless bodywas hung from a pole in town. His crime wasspending his …

What’s the saying? All good things must come to anend? We experience a number of “lasts.” In the secularworld, I recall The Last Picture Show, the Last of the Mohicans,The Last Samurai. In the religious world, Christianitysays there are four last things: death,judgment, heaven and hell. We give the dyingfaithful last rites, and we recall the Last Supper.Taverns have a …

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 PentecostalChurch2144 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. 6:30pm318-292-4463Sunday was Children …

Union Parish High School is proud to announcethe graduation of its first class of Certified NursingAssistants. These seniors recently completeda state-approved training course and successfullypassed a certification exam that included both awritten section and a hands-on skills assessment.This course was offered through dual enrollmentat Louisiana Delta Community College’s RustonCampus, allowing these young women to beginworking immediately to help address the …

An ambitious project to restore a rapidlyvanishing stretch of Louisiana coast that wasdevastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has beenthrown deeper into disarray amid claims by Gov.Jeff Landry that his predecessor concealed anunfavorable study that it was feared could imperilthe $3 billion effort.It’s a controversy that was even predicted by theprevious administration as it grappled with how tohandle conflicting …

In June 2024, a shooting took place in the middle of Farmervilleon Miller St. and North Main St in front of the Sonic Drive in. Nearlyone year later, on May 1st, 2025, 18-year-old Jakiron Tywon Mc-Guire of Ruston LA would be arrested for an outstanding warrantin Oklahoma, and would soon later be found in connection to theshooting in Farmerville, Louisiana.According …

Goldonna, Louisiana. Ever heard of it? That’s the small town/hamlet/village in rural Natchi- toches Parish where I grew up 88 years ago. Actu- ally, I didn’t grow up in Goldonna; we lived a mile out of town next to a red dirt gravel road that in summer, created a fine red dust that cov- ered everything. It was worse when …