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From the Files ... February 1930
From files of The Eunice News: February 1930 Gabriel Johnson, formerly of this city, was told to catch the ceiling when bandits looted his cash register at Handley’s Cafe, Broad and Ryan streets,...
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Third Taster's Choice benefits Community Health Center
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Fund raising for a good cause comes early this year. Professional and amateur chefs are preparing to serve up the start of area Mardi Gras festiviti...
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Woman allegedly sells drugs to undercover agents
A Eunice woman faces several charges after allegedly arranging drug purchases for undercover agents. The Eunice Police Department conducted an investigation of illegal drug activity involving Jessi...
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Kajun Kraze, Triangle Aces on Liberty bill
On Saturday, FEBRUARY 2, 2013, the weekly "Rendez-vous des Cajuns" Music Show presents a performance by BRADLEY VENABLE & Kajun Kraze, followed by HUBERT MAITRE & the Triangle Aces, with a special ...
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Three held on stolen dirt bike charges
Three Eunice men were arrested by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division agents for allegedly possessing stolen property and operating an dirt bikes and an ATV o...
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From the Files ... January 1944
From files of The Eunice News: January 1944 Lee Earl Aucoin, Seaman 1st Class, 22, is reported by the US Navy to have been killed in action.He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Aucoin. He was kille...
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Audit Reports: City Court, City Hall
Notes from recent Legislative Auditor reports: City Court Eunice City Court had revenues of $358,000 in the year ending June 30, 2012 and expenses of $376,000, dropping its fund balance to $21,0...
Jan 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fuselier new assistant principal at junior high
By Myra Miller myra.miller@eunicetoday.com Lisa Fuselier, a veteran educator at Eunice High School, has taken a “new chair” as assistant principal at Eunice Junior High School. Her first official ...
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City proposes to roll property tax millage forward
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com In March, the Eunice City Council will do something it should have done a year ago: vote to adjust millage rates by rolling them forward. City offic...
Jan 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Settlement talks under way in crawfish workers' suit
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com A collective action lawsuit filed in federal court against Riceland Crawfish has moved closer to a “settlement posture”, according to an attorney cl...
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Auditor pubs SLEIDD on noncompliance list; Ethics Commission has complaint
Capitol News Service BATON ROUGE —The St. Landry Parish Economic Industrial Development District has been placed on the Legislative Auditor’s Noncompliance list for failure to failure to submit an...
Jan 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mum's the word on Eunice High teacher-text case
No official at January's St. Landry Parish School Board meeting wanted to talk on the record about continuing questions or investigation surrounding the arrest of a former Eunice High teacher for s...
Jan 21, 2013 | 3 3 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Treasurer Rebecca Hill boxes personal belongings as she prepares to leave post as city treasurer.
City seeking treasurer applications
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com The city will receive applications through Friday, March 1 for the treasurer's job which becomes vacant starting that day. Thursday, Feb. 28 marks t...
Feb 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Quartet accused of LSU Eunice theft allegedly made more than 1,500 questionable purchases
Auditors cite more than 1,500 questionable purchases totaling about $159,000 by four women charged with theft and forgery at LSU Eunice while the school and its general student population were suff...
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From left, Drew Richard, a spohmore at St. Edmund High School, Patrick Hebert, a senior at Eunice High, Joan McManus, Dr. "Jay" Miller, with LSUE students Allison Blanchard and Gabby Deloach meet together for the first time to cultivate ideas for the economic growth of Eunice at a recent Eunice Economic Development Committee meeting
Eunice youth: future of economic development
by Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com The Eunice Economic Development Committee addressed out-migration in a recent meeting in hopes of retaining recent graduates and getting them involv...
Feb 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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ST. MARTINVILLE – Someone from Breaux Bridge might be a million dollars richer today. A customer identified only a young woman from Breaux Bridge picked up more than a McDonald’s Happy Meal when she apparently discovered that she has all the matching Monopoly pieces to win the grand prize of $1,000,000.<!--break--> A McDonalds employee verified that the woman apparently had all the pieces when she left the restaurant, but still has to go to the company's Web site to claim the prize. The word spread around the courthouse where the woman was attending to some business. She took her lunch break at McDonalds. Watch this site for more details.
School Activity Funds million-dollar business
Candy sales here, popcorn sales there, fund-raisers of all sorts are used to keep a number of projects going at schools. The School Activity Fund accounts for monies generated by the individual sc...
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School system posts 'profit' in most-recent report
The St. Landry School System’s General Fund spending in December was $1.2 million more than revenue, but transfers and other sources revenue and expenses left the monthly operating balance at abou...
Feb 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Man allegedly didn't give up Walmart thievery for Lent
A Eunice man allegedly believed the mantra: If at first you succeed, just keep doing it. Police report that on Saturday, Feb. 16 a Walmart employee witnessed a customer leave through the garden cen...
Feb 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mother of young accident victim charged with endangerment
A woman who authorities say had been warned previously about her child playing unattended near the highway has been charged with child endangerment. State Police charged Stephanie Fontenot, the mot...
Feb 18, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Equipment on site for installation of a communication tower at 4th & Park.
Bank officials, city officials to huddle about tower
By Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Project halted. One member considered convening a special session of the Eunice City Council to address a 180-foot communication tower about to go u...
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Eunice city workers Paul Carrier, left, and Todd Smith pile up some of the collected signs at the Eunice City Barnthat were recently removed from state and city right-of-ways. The signs were taken down due to being in violation of the local and state law. Owners of the signs are encouraged to retrieve them at the City Barn in Eunice.
Unlawful sign removal from local and state roadways
by Todd C. Elliott todd.elliott@eunicetoday.com Councilman Roland Miller, of Ward 1, saw the signs that opened up his eyes to a growing problem on city and state right-of-ways. Miller said at the ...
Feb 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Let me take you on a sea cruise!
By Myra Miller myra.miller@eunicetoday.com "She does not plan to eat another onion sandwich, says Marilyn Godeau, mother of Whitney Cochran Rainville, a passenger on the Triumph Carnival Cruise s...
Feb 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Driver who ran over two girls pleads guilty, gets probation
A hearing is scheduled to determine how much, if anything, Derrick Ned will have to pay in restitution to two girls he ran over while allegedly driving drunk. Ned pleaded guilty in December to two ...
Feb 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Football generated $69.4 million for LSU Athletic Fund
An inkling of why the LSU Board of Supervisors thinks Football Coach Les Miles is worth $4 million or so a year comes from the recently filed audit of the school’s Athletic Fund. The football progr...
Feb 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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