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April 10, 1928 - Feb. 28, 2017
VILLE PLATTE-Funeral services for Lucille Frank, 88, were held on Saturday, March 4, 2017, at Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Ville Platte. Burial was in Ninth Baptist Cemetery. Rev. Herman Arvie conducted the funeral ceremony.

March 1, 1936 - March 2, 2017
MAMOU - A Mass of Christian Burial was held at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Mamou Saturday, March 4, for James Denny Guillory, 81, who passed away on Thursday, March 2, 2017 at his home in Mamou. Burial followed in the new St. Ann’s Cemetery.

GIRL — Maddyn Blayke West was born at 6:45 a.m. February 27, 2017 at Rapides Women’s and Children’s Hospital to Aaron and Brittney West of Glenmora.
Baby West weighed six pounds and one ounce and was 18 and a 1/2 inches long.

Dozens of eager eagle-watchers flocked to Morgan City February 16-18. They wanted to see bald eagles, and they wanted to hear how bald eagles are doing.

With the approach of the Roman Catholic Church observation of the 2017 Lenten season, Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel of the Diocese of Lafayette would like to share the following message.
Lent—time time to renew our Christian vocation

There were plenty of award-winning dishes being served at Saturday’s Old Fashioned Boucherie & Smoke Meat Cook-Off in Ville Platte.

The monthly meeting for the Town of Mamou was short and sweet as the council, and the rest of the town, turned its attention to Mardi Gras.

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported 17 recent bookings into the parish jail. Arrested were the following persons:

AMITE – Ville Platte High’s Shanicole Holland hit the biggest three-point basket in his life here Tuesday night.