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Members of Evangeline Parish Communication District 9-1-1 have started to move into their new state-of-the-art facility located at Industrial Park.

PINE PRAIRIE — Like other municipalities in Evangeline Parish, Pine Prairie’s council spent their April meeting discussing whether or not the village would enter into an intergovernmental agreement with 911 for non-emergency dispatching services.

Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office Investigators recently recovered a crossover utility vehicle/gator that was stolen off of Miller’s Lake Road.

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Vowing that he “will make sure” that bars in Ville Platte are within the 300-foot zoning law, Frank Miller decried the revocation of an alcohol permit for the Empire Night Club set to open in his building.

On Monday, the Evangeline Parish Sheriff Eddie Soileau released a statement regarding the recent arrest of Mamou Police Officer Christopher Ryan Lemaire.

The Ville Platte Chamber of Commerce needs your vote.

In a very close race, Brent Zackery was elected to serve as the Town of Mamou’s new police chief following a special election held Saturday, April 9. According to the unofficial results, Zackery defeated his opponent Katina Richard by a margin of 51 percent to 49 percent.

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office has made two recent drug busts within the last month in the parish.

At Tuesday night’s Ville Platte Fire District No. 2 meeting the board was presented with more information on the new training officer position that Fire Chief Chris Harrison requested to be created to help alleviate some of the in office duties that the chief has been burdened with.