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The last entertainment program for kids parish library’s Summer Reading Program was also the largest this year, attracting close to 200 children and adults to see the Bar None Petting Zoo from Church Point Tuesday afternoon, June 22, at the Northside Civic Center’s pavilion.

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The Chataignier Village Council failed to have a quorum for the third time and was unable to review and approve the village’s 2013-2014 budget and to review and approve the 2014-2015 budget.

Ville Platte Police Chief Neal Lartigue reported additional charges have been filed in a Fourth of July incident at the Martin Luther King Park (formerly Southside Park) that left one person with a stab wound to the arm.

Fifty 11- and 12-year-olds from throughout the state came to the Chicota Youth Camp off Highway 106, five miles east of Bayou Chicot, for the annual summer camp program.

Thirteen classrooms in the Mamou Elementary third- and fourth-grade classroom building and seven in the first- and second-grade classroom building have had improvements made in a three-phase project being coordinated by the Evangeline Parish School District.

Before the rains late last week, city crews began putting up red street signs that have the city’s logo. The more than 80 new signs will replace illegible existing signs or will be placed where no street signs exist.

Authors Jane Vidrine, left, and Jean Kiesel were at city hall Friday to sign copies of their new pictorial book “Evangeline Parish,” that shows historical photographs of the parish.

Students and some of the teachers who pass through the hall of the third and fourth classroom building of Mamou Elementary School may not realize the airbrush artist who decorated the walls now creates scary art at a haunted house.

During its meeting Wednesday night, the Evangeline Parish School Board gave its preliminary approval for $2.5 million in certificates of indebtedness for the parish’s local area network project (online infrastructure upgrades).