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St. Martin Clerk of Court Allen Blanchard (right) administers the oath of office to Espinola Alexander and Mardy Guidry, members of the Democratic State Central Committee.

St. Martin Sheriff’s Office deputies (standing, from left) Sgt. Troy Dupuis, Sgt. Crystal Clues, Deputy Darryl Vernon, and (seated, from left) Lt. Kyra Cole, Maj. Ginny Higgins are the first five from SMSO to complete an intensive 40-hour course in crisis intervention.

Ames Castille, 80, of Breaux Bridge, proudly displays the ball with which he made his first hole-in-one, on Hole 7 at Les Vieux Chenes, in 53 years of playing golf. Witnesses were Ralph Young, Leon Monte, Harold Martin and Doug Rouley.

The Revs. Glenn Rae and Bob Woods stand in front of Hope Chapel Family Church, 1797 Declouet Highway, north of Breaux Bridge. The nondenominational church was dedicated with ceremony and a service March 9. The congregation is in the process of building an adjacent youth center.

Derek Albert

The Louisiana Crawfish Farmers’ Association (LCFA) have acted against alleged price fixing in the industry by simply using the simple supply-and-demand principle.

Ken Grissom

Breaux Bridge — The Domingues Motors across from City Hall here has won another reprieve — this time at the behest of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, which wants the former auto dealership left standing while contractors do soil remediation under it.

Breaux Bridge — The much anticipated — some say dreaded — transition to automatic trash pickup will be delayed here until at least April 1, Mayor Jack Dale Delhomme told the City Council at the March 11 meeting.

The Friends of the Louisiana State Arboretum’s spring meeting will be held on Saturday, March 22, at 11:30 a.m.

The most recent monitoring for disinfectant by-product in the Basile water system indicates it is much closer to compliance levels.

The system in a required public notice recently noted the by-product level was 169 parts per billion in its most-recent certified monitoring period.

The St. Landry Parish School Board has adopted a new fuel calculation formula for paying bus drivers monthly mileage reimbursement.