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The 2017 Louisiana Tournoi Youth Pageant will be held Saturday, September 9, at the Ville Platte North Side Civic Center beginning at 9:00 a.m.

Properties with tall grass that are infested with snakes and rats was the main topic of discussion at last week’s monthly meeting of the Pine Prairie Village Council.

You can take the boy out of the farm, but you can’t always take the farm out of the boy. At least those words ring true when speaking about Ville Platte Rice Dryer, Inc. Manager, Felix Morein.

Chief Neal Lartigue of the Ville Platte Police Department reported a recent arrest.

The Evangeline Parish Fire Protection District Number 2 heard from Fire Chief Chris Harrison about certain topics at the board’s monthly meeting Tuesday.

Patterson – Breaking with the Tour du Teche tradition of mostly looong kayak and canoe races, the Lower Atchafalaya River Sprint on Saturday, Sept. 9, will be a set of six-mile races with starts and finishes within view of spectators at Morey Park in Patterson.

Aug. 10, 2017 – The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is reminding dove hunters that a new regulation governing the type of shot dove hunters may use on LDWF Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) and LDWF leased dove fields will be in effect for the 2017-18 hunting season.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is accepting applications for youth lottery deer hunts on five LDWF Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) during the 2017-18 hunting season.

OPELOUSAS — About 50 tourism leaders were queried Tuesday about their ideas on how to improve rural tourism in a meeting attended by Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center.

Alumni of schools at every level hold a similar mission statement of giving back to the schools of their time and financial contributions. One group of alumni in Ville Platte has taken this mission one step further by giving back to the community.