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After alluding to it during Monday’s special meeting of the Mamou Town Council, Police Chief Robert McGee confirmed that he is meeting with his lawyer to discuss his resignation from the position he won in the 2014 election.

Cabot has announced a change in leadership at their Ville Platte Plant. Effective October 1, Facility General Manger, Mark Suellentrop will assume control of the company’s Canal Plant outside of Franklin, La. Replacing Suellentrop will be Wayne Bordelon.

A Eunice Fire Department captain, Garrett Daville, pleaded guilty to simple battery, a misdemeanor, Monday and was given one year of active supervised probation with a $30 per month fee for the probation officer, KATC reports.

EUNICE -- Barely a month into her new job as LSUE chancellor, Kimberly “Kim” Russell says her job is to turnaround a school where enrollment has slumped.
“LSUE has been on the decline since about 2010,” she said.
“That’s not unusual for most community colleges,” she added.

Ted Demoruelle battled dozens, if not hundreds, of fires during his nearly three-decade long career as a Ville Platte firefighter.

The pre-school class from Danyelle’s Early Development Center took over the Fire District #2 Station Wednesday.

On September 30, Ville Platte bondsman James Bertrand, 70, was forced to bond his own self out of jail after being arrested by the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Bertrand, who is also a bounty hunter, showed up at a man’s house who owed him money for being bailed out of jail.

Things got heated at Wednesday’s Civil Service Board meeting.
The board’s main objective at the meeting was to approve the six applicants for fire chief to take the fire chief exam.

A 34-year-old Mamou man is accused of throwing acid on his estranged wife and then tying her up on Thursday, a Eunice Police Department arrest warrant stated.

You don’t always get a second chance in life, but Kevin Ortego and Alex Buller got one Sunday morning in their duck blind in Evangeline Parish — and they both made the most of it.