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Sometimes a story about how the community successfully came together to solve a serious shortcoming was preceded and followed by horrific tragedies.

The new main parish library passed the fire inspection conducted Tuesday, July 29, by Michael Dess Fontenot.

Teamwork and quick response has resulted in an arrest for yesterday’s homicide, according to Ville Platte police.

The Evangeline Parish Healthy Initiatives Coalition presents its sixth annual Back to School Health Information and Resource Fair Saturday, July 26, at the Northside Civic Center.

The first of the hot meals provided to elderly people were served Monday, July 28, at the Martin Luther King Center.

Ville Platte police are searching for a man who they say is suspected of shooting a woman to death inside the K&T’s Meat Market and Grocery on Lincoln Road some time before noon Monday. The man being sought is a black male wearing a white T-shirt, camouflage pants and a red bandanna.

•Commercial radio could be heard by listeners in Evangeline Parish since the beginning of the 1920, and stations broadcasting from large cities all across the country could be heard from here.

Innovation seems like the right word to describe changes at parish schools lately, such as the ones that are encouraging Chataignier Elementary School students to not only achieve academically, but also to help each other and the wider community as schools in the parish make improvements.

Pine Prairie Correctional Center Warden Terry Hines thanked employees of the facility for their work during an employee appreciation barbeque at the Pine Prairie Community Center Thursday, July 24.

A rededication ceremony at the Village De Memoire Wednesday, July 23, marked the completion of a $2.5 million, eight month renovation of the facility, involving offices and 114 residential units.