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Jobs grew in St. Martin Parish from March to April, dropping the unemployment rate nearly a full point, from 3.7 to 3.0 percent.

By Jamie Anfenson-Comeau

jamieenews@bellsouth.net

It’s the start of another hurricane season, and Cleco plans to be ready.

Melissa Stevenson, a Louisiana musician and storyteller, will be at the Evangeline Parish Library system on the following dates and times for the public to enjoy her unique performances.

Richard Fontenot

There was a time when rising fuel prices were a little bit interesting. You know, how high would prices go before they began to come down.

By Jamie Anfenson-Comeau

jamieenews@bellsouth.net

It was an evening of joy, but also of sadness, as LSU at Eunice coaches and administration bid a fond farewell to the sophomores of the national championship baseball team Sunday.

By Ken Grissom

t_news@bellsouth.net

There were 710 deaths and 3,474 injuries in recreational boating accidents recorded by the U.S. Coast Guard in 2006, the latest year for which complete national statistics are available.

By: Maggie Gallagher

Death tolls from the Chinese quake now top 65,000. Hollywood’s Sharon Stone wonders aloud whether “karma” explains the tragedy because (she said) the Chinese are “not nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine.”

By: Thomas Sowell

Years ago, when Jack Greenberg left the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to become a professor at Columbia University, he announced he was going to make it a point to hire a black secretary at Columbia.

CORINE ROBERIE

October 18, 1928 - May 29, 2008

Funeral services were held for Corine Roberie, 79, of Ville Platte, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ville Platte at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 31. Burial followed in the Evangeline Memorial Cemetery.

By Ken Grissom

t_news@bellsouth.net

Maybe it’s time to bring back the putt-putt.