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The Acosta Foundation and the Ville Platte Police Department Cops For a Cure team recently their 5th annual Jail and Bail event.

The Marks Post: What drives you?

The past is in the past. While this statement seems simple, many of us yearn to go back in time and change the past. But, this isn’t the case.

Welcome back

Nearly five years to the day after being laid off from the Ville Platte Gazette, I am happy to be back in action here.

Nancy’s Notes: Synchronicity

Two years ago I heard a horn blowing in my driveway. I went outside to see Mable Foreman in her car, telling me to go talk to Garland Forman at the Gazette.

The end of the handshake?

After more than a year of strict COVID mandates, my state has triumphantly reopened. But, some argue, we better think twice before we offer a celebratory handshake.

C’est Vrai: Citizens worried about spies among us

South Louisiana was not left out when the U.S. entry into World War I caused everyone and his brother to become wary of strangers, and sometimes neighbors, suspected of being German spies.

President Biden is sick

The 78-year-old President of the United States, Joe Biden, is not well. He is suffering from an obvious mental decline. Americans are not sure of his exact condition because he has not released any mental competency test results. When he was asked about it during the presidential campaign, he responded in anger and accused the news reporter who posed the question of being a “junkie.”