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For the past 57 years, the Mamou Rotary Club has been presenting scholarships to two deserving students to help them enroll and help pay expenses for the first year of college.

People who have been protesting this month on Main Street in front of Sacred Heart School plan to meet at the Northside Civic Center Monday, May 25, at 6:30 p.m. to discuss issues involved and possible solutions.

The Memorial Day weekend is the official start of summer for many of us in Louisiana and travelers will be taking to the roads to visit family and friends.

First Student, the company that handles bus transportation for the Evangeline Parish school system, got an earful Wednesday night, May 20, when a parent and school board member Wanda Skinner brought up complaints about a bus driver.

On Friday, May 1, after the Whole School Mass, Alexis Darbonne, representative from Cross Catholic Outreach, presented a picture of the house that was built with the money Sacred Heart School raised last year during Catholic Schools Week.

Rotary Club members visited parish schools in mid-May to present workshops in a program called CHOICES, which encourages students not to drop out.

The Diocese of Lafayette released a letter on Thursday, May 14, stating a “Blue Ribbon Committee of disinterested individuals,” will look into demands that Sacred Heart Principal Diane Fontenot be removed, but organizers of the protests that have been occurring in front of the school said that is

Shortly after 1 p.m. Friday, May 15, troopers from Louisiana State Police Troop I began investigating a three vehicle fatality crash that occurred on Interstate 49 northbound, south of the Bunkie exit in Evangeline Parish.

In a long meeting, preceded by two public hearings, and punctuated by a visit from royalty, the Ville Platte City Council approved retail liquor permits to two new businesses and started an employment program for the city’s teenagers.

BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Rural Caucus announced the election of officers for 2015-2016. Representative Bernard LeBas of Ville Platte, has been re-elected as Vice Chairman of the Legislative Rural Caucus.