Local

By: HEATHER BOGARD
Associate Editor

December is a fine free month for the main library and all branches around the parish. Return any item in good condition and have all fines on the item waived.

The Evangeline Community Action Agency, Inc. is announcing the availability of funds dedicated to assist eligible low income households with their energy payments.

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following recent bookings into the parish jail. Arrested were the following persons:

KINDER - With a tomahawk cutting a ceremonial red ribbon and the cutting of a cake, the new Rez Sportsbook opened at Coushatta Casino Resort on Wednesday, December 1.

Mamou Police Department has booked another wanted suspect in connection to thefts in the area.

A five-year-old child, Denihm Ryan Williams, was pronounced dead at Opelousas General Hospital following an ATV crash in a field near the area of Raiders Road and Frilot Cove Road in St.

Lionel “Coach” Anderson was laid to rest Saturday, November 27.

“Jack,” a lost Labrador retriever, by order of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal, is to be returned to his owner, Gidion Thomas “Tres” Roark III.

Lucian McKinney Jr., founder and pastor of House of Deliverance Worship Center in Ville Platte, assumed the role of bishop at an Episcopal Consecration held on Sunday, November 14.