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French immersion programs are coming to a pair of Evangeline Parish schools.

At Wednesday night’s Evangeline Parish School Board meeting, the school district’s superintendent Darwan Lazard took time to remind the board about the upcoming election, where residents will vote on tax renewals.

The Mamou Town Council Wednesday night appointed Kelly Tate as new town magistrate after Timmy J. Fontenot stepped down from the position. Mayor Ricky Fontenot thanked retired Judge Tom Fusilier for serving in the interim. “He did a very good job,” Fontenot said.

A series of coincidences has led Steve Hallam a world away to Ville Platte, La., and has led him to publish his father’s memoirs as a diplomat in the U.S. State Department.

J.D. Soileau is proud that he fought during the Vietnam War for the country he loved, and still does love.

Hello everyone, Good Friday is observed all over the world by Christians, who recall the momentous event of Jesus being tried, suffering and dying on the cross for the salvation of the world.

On Tuesday, Larry Slaughter appeared before Judge Chuck West for a motion hearing where his attorney Jacob Fusilier requested that Judge Gary Ortego be recused from presiding over Slaughter’s upcoming trial for second degree murder.

Although the Ville Platte City Council meeting was routine, one of the two topics of public hearings held before the regular monthly meeting Tuesday evening generated a lot of conversation.

On Friday, April 7, 2017, Dwight Thomas was arrested for an attempted rape that occured on June 24, 2016.

A local man lost his life in a house fire late Tuesday night in Ville Platte.
Ville Platte firefighters responded to a structure fire at 1314 MLK Drive in Ville Platte at 10:22 p.m. on Tuesday, where investigators later discovered the body of 55-year-old Jessie Bias.