Columns

Interesting changes abound for SEC football programs

With the start of the 2018 football season just around the corner, the Southeastern Conference is facing a dramatic change in its landscape. Six SEC teams will have new blood at the helm this year and changes in several coordiantor positions will provide some very interesting story lines to follow.

Small business column: Teet’s Food Store

In nearly every small town, there’s a local business everyone knows and loves. Those “mom and pop” establishments that your parents went to and their parents before them. For the people of Ville Platte, that small business is Teet’s Food Store.

The Marks Post: Holy Ghost writer

I’m truly humbled for taking home the awards for Best Feature Story and Best Single Editorial at this weekend’s Louisiana Press Association awards presentation. If I would have given an acceptance speech, this is what I was going to say.

Rejoice if you are a sporting fan; summertime is here!!

Ah, summertime!! My favorite time of the year for a number of reasons. Number one reason: I am a teacher!! Secondly, it is a great time if you are an all-around sports junkie. It is the time of the year where you can get your fix on just about any sport you choose to watch, especially this year.

West’s World: All hope for justice is not lost

A grand jury decision to indict two murder suspects and a detective with the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office has left me feeling like all hope for justice is not lost. The most surprising of the grand jury’s true bills was the one issued against EPSO Detective Caleb Stelly.

The Marks Post: It’s March; Let’s go dancing!!

It is rare that I have two columns in a month. With that being said, this special column is a preview and prediction of that one shining moment known as the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

West’s World: A new appreciation for law enforcement

I almost took a young man’s life on Monday when I was involved in a wreck on La Highway 376, also known as the Miller’s Lake Road. It was the most terrifying experience of my life, but it was through that incident that I gained a new appreciation for our law enforcement officers (LEOs).

The Marks Post: Remember The Alamo

As some of you probably have noticed, I started a new feature in The Gazette called “On This Day in History.” It is a little deal where I go on the History Channel Website and type up a list of events in the paper that happened on that day in history.

The Marks Post: “He walked on water’

Monday would have been my grandfather Robert Bennett’s 101st birthday. He was born February 12, 1917, to Hawk and Tiny Bennett and grew up in Turkey Creek. He had four brothers; Earl, George, Perry, and Roy and two sisters; Ola and Janie.