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The City of Ville Platte will hold a Hurricane Ida supply drive for neighbors in need.

The Tee Cotton Bowl is no stranger to national exposure as it has been featured on NFL Films and a recent documentary on PBS.

As the month of August drew to a close, the State of Louisiana reported a total of 679,796 cases of COVID-19 along with 12,359 deaths and 479 patients on ventilators.

Tri-Parish unemployment rates were down and the workforce was up in July compared to a year ago, according to statistics released Friday by the Louisiana Workforce Commission.

MAMOU – Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. at Ardoin’s Funeral Home in Mamou on Saturday, August 28, 2021, for James Carl Fusilier, 87, who passed away on Thursday, August 26, 2021.

MAMOU – Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. at Ardoin’s Funeral Home in Mamou today, September 2, 2021, for Gloria Gail Orr, 76, who passed away on Monday, August 30, 2021.

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

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Department, along with other law enforcement agencies, will be working this upcoming “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign to combat impaired driving.

Rotarian Bob Manuel invited Raymond Hebert, President and CEO of Community Foundation of Acadiana, to address the August 31, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club.

The past is in the past. While this statement seems simple, many of us yearn to go back in time and change the past. But, this isn’t the case.