City applies for EPA grant

By: NANCY DUPLECHAIN Staff Reporter During the November 14 meeting of the Ville Platte City Council, Mayor Ryan LeDay Williams announced the city applied for a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. If the grant is awarded, a city-owned 40-acre site, previously known as the city dump site off Gabrielle Road, will be cleaned up and put to good use. The assessment to decontaminate the…