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PINE PRAIRIE -- The Pine Prairie High gymnasium found itself packed with a crowd looking to enjoy some basketball last Friday night. However, this was not your ordinary basketball game.

Lisa Crane had never heard about Louisiana Tournoi.

From performing classic hits like New York, New York to original songs like Cotton Picker to the Bone, the Cotton Pickers have been wowing audiences since the group was first created nearly 60 years ago.

Bayou Chicot native James Dupre continued strong by hitting the high notes this past week on NBC’s hit show The Voice.

Following the sudden resignation of Police Chief Robert McGee, the Mamou Town Council set a special election date to fill the position, but it decided to postpone appointing an interim chief during its October regular meeting Wednesday evening.

Evangeline Parish Registar of Voters Lucas Buller has announced the close of voter registration for the November 21, 2015 election is Wednesday, October 21, 2015.

Speed is suspected as a factor in a crash that killed Ryan Lee, 19, of Eunice at about 10 a.m. Thursday, a Louisiana State Police Troop I report said.
The wreck occurred on La. 104 in Evangeline Parish and about five miles from the Allen Parish line, police stated.

The previous two leaders in charge of the Mamou Police Department have pled guilty to tasering non-resistant inmates at the town’s jail.

By: RAYMOND PARTSCH III
Managing Editor

The “deplorable” problem of litter in Ville Platte dominated discussion at the October regular meeting of the City Council earlier this week.
Two councilmen and a concerned resident all brought up the problem of trash around the city.