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The Ville Platte Police Department reported nine recent bookings into the city jail. Arrested were the following persons:
• Jermaine Larnette, 40, 1612 Kembo, Ville Platte, was arrested on April 27, 2017, for Theft and remains incarcerated on a $500.00 bond.

Bob Manuel presented Renee Brown and Samantha Guillory from Viande Boucanee’, Inc., to the Ville Platte Rotary Club who discussed the 25th Annual Louisiana Smoked Meat Festival that is scheduled for June 2-3, 2017.

Ville Platte Deputy Marshal Arthur Lee Phillips was arrested by Jeff Davis Sheriff’s detectives on Monday in connection with a prostitution incident that occurred over the weekend in Fenton, La.

Less than a week after a significant portion of Evangeline Parish experienced heavy flooding, the area once again was blasted with severe weather on Wednesday and early Thursday morning.

The Evangeline Parish School Board’s meeting held on Thursday was a night spent recognizing the good happening throughout the parish’s school district.

From day one as Associate Editor at the Ville Platte Gazette I have always done my best to provide our readers with a newspaper they can be proud of, and tomorrow I will continue to do the same but with the new title of Managing Editor.

Here is the truth about leaving a job.

It didn’t just rain last weekend in Evangeline Parish, it poured.

Mark Hudspeth is getting quite good at apologizing for his team’s behavior away from the football field, even more so than he is at coaching the group of young men on the artificial turf of Cajun Field.