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PRESTIGIOUS AWARD PRESENTED - During homecoming festivities on Friday, November 7, Sacred Heart School received the Cognia School of Distinction honor. Shown, from left, are Kylie LaHaye, high school curriculum coordinator; Jodi Andrus, elementary curriculum coordinator; Dawn Shipp, high school principal; Danielle Ardoin, elementary principal; Father Mitchell Guidry, pastor; Anna Larriviere, Superintendent of the Diocese of Lafayette Catholic Schools; and Sadie Fontenot, high school guidance counselor.

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Halls of prestige

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Thursday, November 13, 2025

By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor This year, Cognia, the global nonprofit school improvement organization, recognized 23 schools in the United States and four other countries across the globe as 2025 Cognia Schools or Systems of Distinction.

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Senate votes to reopen government, sending funding bills to House

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Thursday, November 13, 2025

By: THÉRÈSE BOUDREAUX The Center Square (The Center Square) – After spending nearly seven weeks in a political deadlock, U.S. senators finally passed legislation to end the record-long government shutdown.

The Pine Prairie High School Marching Band recently ended their season on a high note by capturing the LMEA State Championship for second year in a row. The group, in the above photo, gathers around the championship banner. (Photo courtesy of Lynette Hazelton)

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PPHS Band strikes gold at LMEA State Championship

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Monday, November 10, 2025

The Pine Prairie High School Marching Band hit all the right notes on Monday, November 4, capping off an incredible 2025 season with a show-stopping performance at the Louisiana Music Educators Association’s (LMEA) 2nd Annual State Championship, held at McNeese State University.

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Veterans Spotlight

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Monday, November 10, 2025

By: TONY MARKS Editor VILLE PLATTE - As the Veterans Day holiday nears, Sergeant First Class (retired) James Louis “LG” Poullard is remembered, who passed away earlier this year, at the age of 86.

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Highway priority hearing to be held

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Monday, November 10, 2025

A series of Public Hearings will be held in accordance with LA R.S. 48:231 and conducted by the Joint Transportation, Highways and Public Works Committee, according to a press release from the Department of Transportation and Development.

UPDATE ON COTTON FESTIVAL PRESENTED - From left are Louisiana Cotton Festival Board President Kimberly McDaniel, Rotarian Patricia Duplechin and Rotary President Beau Wilson. McDaniel discussed the recent festival and plans moving forward for next year’s festival. (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)

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Ville Platte Rotary:

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Monday, November 10, 2025

By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor Rotarian Patricia Duplechin welcomed Louisiana Cotton Festival Board President Kimberly McDaniel as the guest speaker for the November 4, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club.

Le Grand Hoorah celebrates 10 years

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Thursday, November 6, 2025

The 10th Annual Le Grand Hoorah was held this past weekend at Lakeview Park and Beach.

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Bunkie resident is killed in crash on La. 106

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Thursday, November 6, 2025

ST. LANDRY – On November 2, 2025, shortly after 5:00 p.m., Troopers with Louisiana State Police Troop I began investigating a single-vehicle fatality crash on Louisiana Highway 106 near Lutz Loop. The crash claimed the life of 42-year-old Michael Fontenot of Bunkie.

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Injection well is proposed for Oakdale landfill

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Thursday, November 6, 2025

By: TONY MARKS Editor OBERLIN - Following reports of leachate from a landfill outside of Oakdale running off into Cypress Creek, a public hearing is set regarding a Class I Nonhazardous Waste Disposal Well.

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Choice to fund SNAP for November sets La. apart from other Republican states

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Thursday, November 6, 2025

By: COURTNEY BELL AND AVERY WHITE LSU Manship School News Service BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana is one of the few politically red states — and the only one in the Deep South — stepping up to fund SNAP benefits amid a federal suspension of food assistance payments.

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