October, 2023

• 7 October

  Community college news is well-timed

  

  By Luke Britt/Editor This week’s announcement that a site has been selected for a new Louisiana Delta Community College campus in Farmerville is the best news to hit Union Parish in quite awhile, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Since April 2020, when the U.S. government began distributing Covid relief money, Americans have been living in an …

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• 7 October

  Three airlifted following head-on crash in Farmerville

  

  Three people had to be transported by helicopter to area hospitals following a head-on collision in Farmerville Tuesday morning. Farmerville police responded at about 8:45 am to a report of a vehicle crash on Highway 15 between James Avenue and Camp Road and arrived few minutes later to find a 2012 gray Chevy Impala facing south in the northbound lane …

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• 7 October

  Community college site selected

  

  Campus will overlook Lake D’Arbonne and offer a ‘Sportsman’s Paradise’ curriculum  By Luke Britt/Editor Wednesday’s decision by the Louisiana Community and Technical College System to build a new $18 million Farmerville campus on a hill overlooking Lake D’Arbonne seems to have been driven by three things: location, location, location. According to the site selection report that prompted the LCTCS decision, …

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• 5 October

  Sammy Brewster

  

  Funeral services for Mr. Sammy Brewster, age 70 of Wichita, KS, will be held at 11:00 AM, Friday, October 06, 2023, at Farrar Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Eugene Brown officiating. Burial will follow in Roark Cemetery in Marion, LA, under the direction of Farrar Funeral Home. Sammy was born April 10, 1947 in West Monroe, LA to Samuel James …

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• 4 October

  Ernest Eugene Parks

  

  Funeral services for Ernest Eugene Parks were held at 3:00 P.M., Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at Liberty Baptist Church in Linville, Louisiana. His final place of rest was at Roark Cemetery in Marion, Louisiana. Visitation was held at the church on Monday, October 2, 2023 from 5:00 P.M. until 7:00 P.M. Services are under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home …

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September, 2023

• 30 September

  When Marion Played Sports – moving up to the Eastside

  

  Editor’s Note: This is the fifth installment of the When Marion Played Sports series. Click the link to see all the articles in the series. By Jackie HuntSpecial to The Gazette The doors to Marion Industrial High School closed for a final time at the end of the 1958-59 school year. Students who had studied and played in the cluster of buildings …

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• 30 September

  When Marion Played Sports; moving up to the Eastside

  

  Editor’s Note: This is the fifth installment of the When Marion Played Sports series. Click the link to see all the articles in the series. By Jackie HuntSpecial to The Gazette The doors to Marion Industrial High School closed for a final time at the end of the 1958-59 school year. Students who had studied and played in the cluster of buildings …

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• 30 September

  Fire protection tax up for renewal Oct. 14

  

  By Luke Britt/Editor A tax renewal for the Farmerville Fire Department that has been renewed every ten years for 40 years will be among the items on the October 14 ballot. The 6 mill property tax, which generates about $222,000 annually for the fire department, has been renewed every 10 years since it was first passed in 1984, which may …

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• 30 September

  Police Jury votes to transfer nearly $2.4 million to Louisiana National Bank

  

  By Luke Britt/Editor The Union Parish Police Jury, in a special meeting on Tuesday, voted to bring back to Union Parish more than $2 million that currently is invested with the Louisiana Asset Management Pool (LAMP). Also on Tuesday, the jury acted on the following: Voted to approve the 2023 Tax Roll as submitted by the parish Tax Assessor. Approved …

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• 22 September

  When Marion Play Sports – Girls played too

  

  Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment of the When Marion Played Sports series. Click the link to see all the articles in the series. By Jackie HuntSpecial to The Gazette Long before Lillie E. Davis became a teacher and principal at Marion High School, and a prominent respected face throughout the parish, she was an athlete at Marion Industrial High School.  …

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