June, 2025

• 4 June

  LSP Cadet Class 106 Graduation

  Forty-six Members of LSP Cadet Class 106 Graduate Training Academy Baton Rouge – This morning, Louisiana State Police announced the graduation of its 106th Cadet Class, con- sisting of 46 cadets who have completed their journey to becoming Louisiana State Troopers. The graduation cer- emony was hosted by the Louisiana State Police Train- ing Academy and held at Istrouma Baptist …

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• 4 June

  2025 Super Bowl breaks economic records

  Hosting Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans generated a state- wide economic impact of $1.25 billion, more than double the impact of the city’s last Super Bowl in 2013 and one of the larg- est in NFL history. That’s according to a new economic analysis released by Lou- isiana State University’s E.J. Ourso College of Business, which evaluated the event’s …

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May, 2025

• 28 May

  The Old Man’s Place Revisited

  (Following is a chapter in my new book, “Fa- thers, Sons and Old Guns”. The book, containing 50 of the columns I have written over the years is available from Amazon.com) I met the old fellow once way back in the woods as he ground his pick-up to a rattling halt and stopped to chat when he noticed me walking …

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• 28 May

  No place for boycotts

  Last week a very disturbing incident took place that discloses the rise in man’s hatred for man for no reason other than religion. Two members of the Israeli dip- lomatic mission in Washington were visiting the Jew- ish Museum when an assassin walked up and shot the couple dead. The man had recently bought an engagement ring and had planned …

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• 28 May

  Memories brewed with history and heart

  We gathered at a Ruston coffee shop – a trio of former Louisiana Tech journalism professors who continue to live in the area and one who still has family ties here but now calls Asheville, North Carolina, home. Eddie Blick, Reggie Owens and I didn’t have far to drive. We three remain rooted in Ruston and Grambling. Ron White had …

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• 28 May

  CHURCH NEWS

  Antioch Baptist Church 3501 Hwy 828 Farmerville 318-368-3591 Early Worship – 8:30 a.m. Sunday School – 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m. Bethel Temple Pentecostal Church 2144 Hwy 33 N., Marion Sunday School -11 a.m. Sunday Worship -12 p.m. 318-608-6766 Canaan Baptist Church 502 Canaan Church Rd. Spearsville Sunday School -10am Sunday Worship -11am 870-312-3440 Bro. Brian Williams Conway …

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• 28 May

  District Attorney John Belton announces retirement

  At the most recent Union Par- ish Chamber Luncheon, John Belton announced that he will be retiring after 33 years of service. John Belton was elected District Attorney for Lincoln and Union Parishes in 2014 and has made an anouncement that he will no longer be running for reelection into the position. John Belton has served as a Vice President …

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• 28 May

  LSC Justice Guidry, Lifetime Achievement Award

  LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JOHN MICHAEL GUIDRY HONORED WITH 2025 DAVID A. HAMILTON LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AT LSBA PRO BONO AWARDS CEREMONY New Orleans, LA – Louisiana Supreme Court Justice John Michael Guidry was honored with the 2025 David A. Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award at the Louisiana State Bar Association’s 40th annual Pro Bono Publico & Children’s Law Awards Ceremony. …

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• 28 May

  Louisiana at 2025 National Book Festival

  Paul Siefken’s “Vernon Poche & the Ghosts of New Orleans” and Ken Wells’s “Gumbo Life: A Journey Down the Roux Bayou” to be featured as state’s “Great Reads” September 6 in Washington, DC BATON ROUGE, La. – Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser and the Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana are pleased to announce the two …

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• 22 May

  Outdoor Magazines Turning Digital

  It started for me long ago. My daddy always had a copy or two of the Big Three in outdoor maga- zines – Field and Stream, Sports Afield or Outdoor Life lying around and one of my early childhood pleasures was picking one up, flipping through the pages and reading articles written by guys that became my heroes. My favorite …

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