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New activities for the elderly and young people in the community were among issues discussed during the monthly meeting of the Ville Platte City Council Tuesday afternoon.

The director of the Evangeline Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness, Liz Hill, discussed ways to ensure preparations are made in advance of this year’s hurricane season, which begins June 1, and runs through November.

At least a dozen property owners attended the monthly police jury meeting Monday, May 12, for a public hearing on roads the parish intends to abandon, meaning the parish will no longer maintain those roads.

Organizers of the radio auction Saturday, broadcast by KVPI, say they hope to bring in more than the $8,000 the auction brought in last year. The auction was held for the first time at the Veterans Home. Last year, it was held at the Northside Civic Center.

A novel, “Twice a Slave,” based on factual accounts of the founder of Calvary Baptist Church in Bayou Chicot, has just been published, co-authored by Randy Willis, fourth great grandson of the man who became known as “The Apostle to Opelousas,” Joseph Willis, who founded other churches in south L

On Wednesday evening, Basile Police Chief Allen Ivory Jr. was contact by family members of David Michael Aucoin, 46, 1708 Ford Ave., Basile, stating that Aucoin was acting irrationally and hallucinating.

The Evangeline Parish School Board highlighted some of the achievements of Mamou High School and its students during its meeting Wednesday, May 7.

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Barbara and Francis Menard of New Iberia are looking for the birth mother of their adopted son, Thomas, who committed suicide in April 2011.

Local officials and residents celebrated the start of the second year of planting spring crops at the Community Garden, next to the Swamp Pop Museum on Railroad Street Wednesday afternoon.