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J. Barney Deshotel Sr. attended a four-and-a-half day school in Sulphur, given by the International Code Conference (ICC), to study the structural part of the building inspector certification program.

Farmers are reminded of the June 2, deadline for requesting Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) commodity loans and/or loan deficiency payments (LDPs) (if applicable) on 2007 crop cotton, corn, grain sorghum, rice, soybeans, and sunflowers.

By: CARISSA HEBERT

Managing Editor

Narcotic agents from the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office and Ville Platte Police Department joined forces to execute a warrant Friday, May 23, at a Ville Platte residence, 516 Martin Luther King.

By: CARISSA HEBERT

Managing Editor

After receiving information on the location of reportedly stolen items from the Eastin Gas Plant, authorities went to a residence, located the items and booked three into the parish jail.

The annual requirement of reporting planted crops to the FSA Office can be referred to as crop reporting, acreage reporting, or crop certification.

With official announcement of the Conservation Reserve Program’s Gulf Coast Prairies Safe Project made during an “Earth Day” event held April 22, sign-up for the program began Monday, May 5.

With the recent negativity coming from Black Man Seven and the ACLU against Ville Platte Police Chief Neal Lartigue, members of Eastern Seventh District gathered together to issue a statement in support of Lartigue and his police department. The statement follows:

By: Maggie Gallagher

They say we are tired of culture wars. Tell that to the California Supreme Court, which didn’t sound tired at all when it lobbed a big, fat hand grenade into the marriage debate.

By: Thomas Sowell

Seeing the Pope driven around in a bullet-proof vehicle reminds me of how much times have changed over the years. I can remember when President Franklin D. Roosevelt rode through Harlem in an open car.

BATON ROUGE - Governor Bobby Jindal announced the appointment of Louisiana State Police Lt. Colonel John LeBlanc as the executive director of the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission.