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VILLE PLATTE — Pulling out an often used trick play in the bottom of the seventh, the Sacred Heart Trojans slid past the Port Barre Red Devils 7-6 in a non-district contest here Tuesday afternoon.

BOY — Mitchell Royce Fletcher was born at 7:38 a.m. February 19, 2017 at Acadian Regional Medical Center in Eunice to Kimberly Taylor and Layne Fletcher, of Ville Platte.
Baby Fletcher weighed six pounds, seven ounces.

By: CLAUDETTE OLIVIER
Lifestyles Editor

The lawsuits just keep coming for the City of Ville Platte and the Ville Platte Police Department since the U.S. Department of Justice found regularly arrested and held people in jail without a warrant or probable cause.

EUNICE – After giving up three runs in the first two innings, the Sacred Heart Lady Trojan softball team scored six runs in the final five innings of play to put away the St. Edmund Lady Blue Jays in an 11-3 win here Thursday afternoon.

PINE PRAIRIE – It did not take the Lady Panthers long to establish their dominance in a 6-0 District 5-3A opening win over the Church Point Lady Bears here Wednesday afternoon.

A long hard court season turned into a huge success for Evangeline Parish high school basketball.

OPELOUSAS – Winston De Ville discovered his passion for genealogy early in life while sitting on his grandfather Seevola Johnson’s lap at his family home in Easton.

Citizens Bank will soon be known as Investar.

An LSU AgCenter workshop on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, in agriculture will be held March 16 at the State Evacuation Shelter on U.S. Highway 71 south of Alexandria.
Registration starts at 8:30 a.m., and the session will run from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.