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After a year’s hiatus due to the worldwide pandemic, Basile’s 54th La.

The American Pickers are excited to return to Louisiana! They plan to film episodes of The History Channel hit television series throughout your area in February 2022.

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Departments Criminal Patrol Unit, on October 10, conducted a traffic stop on Main Street in Ville Platte.

Bayou Chicot Elementary School recently announced its honor students for the first nine weeks grading period as follows:
Kindergarten:

The Bayou Chicot Elementary School will be holding a bingo and chili cook off on Saturday, November 13, at the Crooked Creek Pavilion beginning at 11 a.m.

During the November 2, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club, Rotarian and former district attorney Brent Coreil voiced his concerns following the packed meeting of the Evangeline Parish Police J

(Editor’s Note: The following was submitted by Evangeline Parish District Attorney Trent Brignac.)
A new Grand Jury was empaneled on Wednesday, October 27, in Evangeline Parish.

Evangeline Parish School Board member Wanda Skinner addressed concerns about the board’s revised mask and quarantine policy during the board’s meeting held Wednesday, November 3.

November will indeed rock because we can host public programs again!

Madeleine Brumley, on behalf of the law firm LaBorde Earles, gave a rundown of a partial settlement reached in the national opioid lawsuit while addressing the Evangeline Parish Police Jury.