Submitted by Claudette Olivier on Wed, 01/25/2017 - 20:57
July 2, 1990 - Jan. 15, 2017
VILLE PLATTE - Funeral services for Jonathan Taylor Deshotel were held Ardoin’s Funeral Home Wednesday, January 25, 2017.
Deshotel, 26, a long-time resident of Pine Prairie, passed away in Washington State where he had recently moved.
Submitted by Claudette Olivier on Wed, 01/25/2017 - 20:43
Local lawyer Gilbert “Winky” Aucoin was the guest speaker at the January 17, 2016 Ville Platte Rotary Club meeting.
Aucoin has practiced law since 1972, and he worked with his late brother and fellow lawyer Preston Aucoin for 18 years.
Submitted by Tracey Jagneaux on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 15:04
The time to meet some of Louisiana’s legendary sports figures has arrived.
Submitted by Tracey Jagneaux on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 15:02
District action continued for three of the area teams, as the Sacred Heart Lady Trojans, the Pine Prairie Lady Panthers and the Pine Prairie Panthers all took the hard court Friday night.
Submitted by Tracey Jagneaux on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 15:00
VILLE PLATTE -- There still may be a lot of basketball left to play in the 2016-17 season, but sometimes an early season district match-up can wind up determining who comes out on top when the last buzzer of the final league game sounds.
Submitted by Elizabeth West on Fri, 01/20/2017 - 22:56
The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a shootout on Lariat Lane in Easton in the early morning hours of Friday, January 20, 2017.
Submitted by Elizabeth West on Fri, 01/20/2017 - 22:55
MAMOU -- The bell rung again and again.
Those who walked up to ring the newly mounted bell on the wall were young and old, black and white, male and female. The individuals served as a true representation of just how the disease of cancer doesn’t discriminate.
Submitted by Elizabeth West on Fri, 01/20/2017 - 22:51
Former Ville Platte Detective Nathaniel Savoy was sentenced to 18 months in prison last November for falsifying a police report to cover up his own involvement in a “conspiracy to burglarize” a local Ville Platte business.
Submitted by Elizabeth West on Fri, 01/20/2017 - 22:34
A head-on collision in Allen Parish involving a Mamou man has resulted in the deaths of four individuals, including a one-year-old girl.
Louisiana State Police Troop D released a statement on Thursday, January 19 regarding a crash that occurred two and half miles east of Kinder.
Submitted by Elizabeth West on Fri, 01/20/2017 - 22:31
An old fashioned boucherie and smoked meat cookoff to benefit the Ville Platte Boys and Girls Club will be held Saturday, February 25, 2017 at the Northside Civic Center.
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