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This is dedicated to the late Elvin Reed.

The Ville Platte Gazette publishes your engagement and wedding announcements in the Lifestyles section at no cost.

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

VILLE PLATTE, LA - The Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office seeks assistance from the Public in locating Kendall Pete and Christopher N. Freeman Jr.

Animal control in Evangeline Parish has long been a sore spot. The parish is rife with stray dogs due to lack of spay/neuter advocacy.

By: TONY MARKS
Editor

Staff Report

Philip Dewoody, who was accused of the 2020 kidnapping and first degree murder of Ville Platte resident Joyce Thomas, pleaded guilty Wednesday, March 17.

PROSPER FONTENOT III
December 4, 1968 – March 12, 2021

VILLE PLATTE — With many opportunities as a chemist and a basketball player, Howard Jackson, who meets twice a week with Ville Platte Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, traded a laboratory and a