Local

By: RHETT MANUEL
Sports Editor

By: NANCY DUPLECHAIN
Staff Reporter

By: TONY MARKS
Editor

By: HEATHER BOGARD
Associate Editor

In recognition of the Martin Luther King holiday, the main library and all branches will be closed tomorrow, January 15.

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following recent bookings into the parish jail. All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Arrested were the following persons:

(Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by Patricia Duplechin, resident activity director at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Ville Platte.

By: DR. BRIAN DORE’
Member of the Ville Platte
Ministerial Alliance

Staff Report

By: HARLAN KIRGAN
Louisiana State Newspapers