Early voting ends with over 2,000 residents casting votes
Thu, 11/01/2018 - 12:40pm
Early voting ended on Tuesday, October 30, for the November 6th parishwide and statewide elections.
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Civil Service board approves board member nominees
Thu, 11/01/2018 - 12:34pm
The Ville Platte Civil Service Board recently met to review fire captain and assistant fire chief test scores, as well as potential board members to fill a vacancy on the board.
Escapee from Ville Platte found dead in Crowley
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 4:46pm
An individual wanted for escaping from the Ville Platte City Jail earlier this month was found dead in Acadia Parish.
Mary Gladys Ortego is pictured here standing outside Ville Platte’s Jan Theater in 1950. The theater was one of the ones owned and/or managed by Herbert “Blackie” Guillory. (Photo courtesy of Richard DesHotels)
A life in pictures
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 12:53pm
In the storied history of Ville Platte’s past, there were four theaters and a drive in within the city’s limits where residents could watch movies of cowboy heroes and heroes on the battlefield.
Pictured is a section of U.S. Highway 167 S. and its gravel shoulder near the Evangeline Parish line. (Gazette photo by Elizabeth West)
Parish residents address Hwy. 167 issues at DOTD meeting
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 12:49pm
Evangeline Parish locals and state officials traveled to Lafayette on October 18th to discuss the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development’s highway priority program for the current f