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JONES DISCUSSES SHS BASKETBALL - New Sacred Heart High School basketball coach Cody Jones (center) visited the July 25, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club as the guest of Dr. Jeb Cormier (left). They are shown with Rotary President Brian Ardoin (right). (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)

JONES DISCUSSES SHS BASKETBALL - New Sacred Heart High School basketball coach Cody Jones (center) visited the July 25, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club as the guest of Dr. Jeb Cormier (left). They are shown with Rotary President Brian Ardoin (right). (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)

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Ville Platte Rotary: Jones makes move as coach at Sacred Heart

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Monday, July 31, 2023
By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor Rotarian Dr. Jeb Cormier welcomed Cody Jones, new basketball coach at Sacred Heart High School, as the guest speaker for the July 25, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club.
Amari Carr (9) scores on an RBI single from Emmett Lafleur (13) to give the Ville Platte 7U Coach Pitch All Stars a 4-2 lead over Shelby County in the Dixie Youth Region III World Series. Shelby County, though, won 9-8 in extra innings, on Saturday, July 22, and eliminated Ville Platte from the tournament. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

Amari Carr (9) scores on an RBI single from Emmett Lafleur (13) to give the Ville Platte 7U Coach Pitch All Stars a 4-2 lead over Shelby County in the Dixie Youth Region III World Series. Shelby County, though, won 9-8 in extra innings, on Saturday, July 22, and eliminated Ville Platte from the tournament. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

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An extra sting

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Thursday, July 27, 2023
By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor CENTER, Texas – The Ville Platte 7U Dixie Youth All-Stars gave it everything they had in their World Series encounter. They proved their ability to hang with the best, going undefeated in pool play and taking down the Alabama state champions in bracket play.
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High school football game coverage to now run on Thursdays

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Thursday, July 27, 2023
Changes are coming to local high school coverage in the Ville Platte Gazette. The Sunday pages will no longer be held for football games on Friday night and will continue to be printed on Friday afternoon.
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Kelly’s LSU, for better or worse, has had the bar upped in 2023

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Monday, July 24, 2023
Well, it’s that time of the year again. With SEC Media Days behind us, let the hype train begin and let football season wash over us once more. Yes, I know it’s still 105 degrees outside at 7 p.m. and you have to figure out how you’re going to cut your grass in this nonsense.
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