Local

On July 13, at approximately 8:30 p.m., the Ville Platte Police Department received a call reporting an armed robbery at a local business on East Main Street.

The Evangeline Parish Police Jury, during its monthly meeting Wednesday, July 15, decided to take action on logging truckers who use parish roads and avoid state roads, and on owners of properties with abandoned structures or in need of maintenance.

Sometimes stories in the early issues of the Weekly Gazette started out as a pretty ordinary news story, but then toward the end took a rather unusual turn.
An example, in the October 30, 1926, issue of the newspaper begins with the burning down of a house and ends with gawking geese.

A story in the Weekly Gazette on October 30, 1926, was about a Moreauville bank robbery three days before by a well-dressed robber who kept his cool.
There was only one employee in the Avoyelles Bank and Trust Company bank, and he was getting ready to close the bank just past 4 p.m.

The Pine Prairie Village Council, during the body’s July 10, regular meeting, accepted Assistant Police Chief James Chuncey Fontenot’s resignation, which was effective June 26, and agreed to Police Chief L.C.

The author of the children’s book featuring the Swmp Kids, “The Missing Chord,” is releasing a second book, “TuTu’s Christmas on the Bayou” in September.

The October 9, 1926, edition of The Weekly Gazette reported on the death of a Sacred Heart High senior after being struck by lightning at his home.

The Mamou Town Council, during its monthly meeting Wednesday, July 9, voted to rename what had been the Mamou Shooting Range to honor the late Joe Deshotel.

The Basile Police Department responded to a report of a child being struck by a train Wednesday, July 9, at approximately 4 p.m.

Police Chief Neal Lartigue with the Ville Platte Police Department reported the following incidents over the Fourth of July weekend.