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Civil War Series - Confederate soldiers went to war with a poem on their lips
May 1861 -- By now, a month into the war, men across the South are rushing to join up as hundreds of units are formed to ally with the Confederate Army. A poem of the time: THE Confederate Soldier...
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From the Files - May 1935
From files of The Eunice News: May 1935 One hundred and sixty four students at Eunice High, the largest number in school history, will receive a certificate for making the required 100 percent on ...
Apr 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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3rd Circuit bars some testimony in Acadia double-murder case, pre-trial maneuvering continues
CROWLEY -- Legal maneuvering continues with no new trial date yet set in the capital murder trial of Daniel Prince, accused of killing two Branch women in January 2005. Prince’s most-recent trial d...
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No hearing yet on EPI-Eunice TRO; lawyer withdraws
A hearing has not yet been scheduled on the City of Eunice’s motion to lift the Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting it to interfere in any manner with Environmental Processing’s access to the w...
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St. Landry grand jury indicts Air Force man in wedding day shooting death of wife's ex-husband
OPELOUSAS – An Air Force serviceman who police say told his brother earlier that he would need a gun has been indicted for the manslaughter on their wedding day of his wife’s ex-husband. Jason Roll...
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Jacque Pucheu, right, presents Administrative Professional of the Year Janet Miller with her award, including a plaque, a bottle of champagne and a free trip to Branson, Mo.
Janet Miller named "Secretary of the Year" by Eunice Rotary
Janet Miller, secretary at Heinen Medical Review, was named the “Administrative Professional of the Year” by the Eunice Rotary Club during their 25th Annual “Administrative Professionals Day Lunche...
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Proposed parish redistricting ordinance would shuffle some Eunice precincts
An ordinance to redistrict the 13 St. Landry Parish districts was introduced during last week’s council meeting which would cause minor changes to several Eunice precincts. The proposed redistricti...
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Teen drug suspect put in pre-trial diversion
A Eunice teenager, scheduled for jury selection on April 12, waived further delays in his narcotics case and entered the St. Landry District Attorney’s pre-trial diversion program. Vondray Vallare,...
Apr 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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St. Landry Parish Jail
Jail maintenance tax returns to ballot Saturday
A 10-year, one-mil jail tax returns to the ballot in the April 30 special election. The jail tax had been used to fund maintenance and upkeep for the St. Landry Parish Jail, but voters failed to re...
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Link Savoie addresses St. Landry Parish Government.
Savoie asks council to rename meeting place in honor of fallen vets, while more airport trouble lands in their laps
OPELOUSAS – Last week, the St. Landry Parish Council voted to table discussion of renaming the council's meeting place as the St. Landry Parish Gold Star Building. During the April 4 Administrative...
Apr 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Yum - Farmers Market inventory growing
The Eunice Farmers Market on Wednesday, April 27, will have green beans, salad greens, herbs, muscadine, plum and quince jelly, pumpkin bread and pecan pie muffins. According to Joan McManus, Main ...
Apr 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement officer Travis Huval spoke to the Eunice Kiwanis Club last week.
Backyard bears: LDWF warden Huval says southwestern black bear population exploding
Black bears are on the rise in rural portions of southwest Louisiana, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement OfficerTravis Huval told Eunice Kiwanians last week. Huval noted, however, tha...
Apr 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rain or shine, voting under way, politicking continues
A late-morning break Tuesday in a steady rainfall caused a surge in the number of people going to polls in Eunice. The steady rain of earlier in the day didn't put a damper on voting or on politick...
Nov 02, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ryan Brunet
Main to Main fun and Liberty music
Saturday, NOVEMBER 6, 2010, the Liberty Theater's "Rendez-vous des Cajuns" Cajun Music Radio and TV Show in Eunice, LA, presents performances by RYAN BRUNET & les Malfecteurs and RICHARD MILLER & t...
Nov 01, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chief of Police candidates Randy Fontenot, left, and Ronald Dies as Oct. 28 forum.
City candidates stick with script at final forum
Candidates danced with who brought them Thursday night as they took one last opportunity to address city voters before Tuesday’s run-off voting for mayor, chief of police and Ward 1 alderman. No ne...
Oct 29, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Salute cancelled - 21 guns recovered
CHURCH POINT – The St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Department received a report of burglary of a house and mobile home at 383 Highway 178, Church Point. It was reported that several firearms in a gun s...
Oct 28, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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IESI Truck strikes man-hole cover, leaks diesel
An IESI trash truck pick up struck a man-hole road culvert around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, damaging fuel tank on Hwy. 190 West near Larry's Tire Company. Eunice Police Officer Ryan Young said it appear...
Oct 27, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chief, sheriff caution Halloween fun-seekers
Halloween fun-seekers can stretch their celebration over two days if they plan correctly. In Eunice, Halloween will be celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 31 from 6-8 p.m. Other media reports that it would ...
Oct 26, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jury selection set in attempted feticide case
Jury selection has been scheduled for a Eunice man accused of trying to kill an unborn child to avoid paying support. Judge James Doherty has set jury selection for Kenneth Myers’ trial on Jan. 11....
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'Out of gas, out of money', out of Time
By Tom Aswell Capitol News Service BATON ROUGE -- Time magazine describes half the states as having joined the federal government “in the fiscal sick ward” as high unemployment and the recession c...
Oct 22, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 45 45 recommendations | email to a friend
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Officials urge flu shots for all
Health encourages everyone older than six months to receive the flu vaccine this fall. It is the best way to prevent or lessen the severity of the flu, they said. “The 2010-2011 flu vaccine will ...
Oct 22, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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'Jumper' again asks dismissal, judge recuses self from hearing
Accused kidnapper Mark Savoy claims charges against him should be dismissed because of alleged perjury and violation of his civil rights. Savoy is accused of kidnapping his estranged wife and chil...
Oct 21, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
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Doug Ardoin
'Choo Choo' signals Boogie Kings are arriving
Many people’s earliest memory of Doug Ardoin and the Boogie Kings is hearing them from a Eunice-area stage in the late 1950’s. Mine is listening to them at the Pelican Club in Marksville, where I, ...
Oct 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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That's not what's meant by Drug Court
An accused drug dealer allegedly didn’t quite understand the rules of St. Landry Parish’s Drug Court - an intervention program that tries to get narcotics suspects on the straight and narrow withou...
Oct 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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