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The Evangeline Community Action Agency, Inc. and Food for Families/Food for Seniors will be distributing food boxes in the month of June.

• The Board of Control and the staff of the Evangeline Parish Library would like to THANK our 2016 Summer Reading Sponsors - Basile State Bank, Cabot Corporation, Pine Prairie Energy, and the Friends of the Library - for their financial assistance in keeping our reading incentive prizes age app

Ville Platte Chamber of Commerce President Renee Brown unveiled some exciting news at Wednesday’s monthly meeting.

EUNICE -- LSUE awarded 193 degrees to students from across the state Friday morning.
LSUE Chancellor Kimberly Russell said, “I would like to congratulate you. It takes hard work and dedication to complete an academic credential, and you have persevered.”

DECATUR, Mississippi -- Top-ranked LSU Eunice Bengals fell 8-2 to Jones County Junior College in Thursday’s NJCAA Division II Region 23 opening game.

It was a banner day for one former Ville Platte High track star recently.

L’ANSE AUX PAILLES — Before steamboats began providing a way of transportation and railroads stretched across the United States into the West, it was the covered wagon that provided individuals with the opportunity to explore, settle, and transport goods to the portion of this country that had ye

Just over 16 months after being arrested for the murder of Latoya Richard, who was found with her head in a bucket of water, the man accused of killing the 29-year old, Larry Slaughter Jr., has bonded out of jail.

At Wednesday night’s Evangeline Parish School Board meeting, an informational item that board member Arthur Savoy requested to have put on the agenda concerning the district’s air conditioning bidding process became an action item so that individuals from the audience could speak on this matter.<

CHATAIGNIER — Newly elected Chataignier Police Chief Clint Brasseaux caught many by surprise when he informed the village’s board of voting on a resolution to “eliminate the patrol officer’s position to help save the town some money.”