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PRAIRIE RHONDE -- Every year at this time the Northwest Raider Holiday Tournament begins in full force with high schools from around the state coming to lay claim to the championship title.

VILLE PLATTE -- In a war of the Trojans, the Sacred Heart boy’s and girl’s basketball teams took on East Beauregard here Friday night in a pair of non-district contests.

July 3, 1920 - Dec. 26, 2016
VILLE PLATTE – A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 for Allen Ortego, at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church. Father Tom Voorhies will officiate.

Sept. 1, 1928 - Dec. 4, 2016
A Memorial Mass for Kathleen E. Soileau will be held on Saturday January 7, 2017 at 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church. There will be a reception in the meeting hall behind the rectory after mass for friends, family and those who wish to celebrate her life.

South Louisiana Community College Chancellor Natalie Harder was the guest speaker at the December 22 Ville Platte Rotary Club meeting.

Tina Thomas just wanted to be called ‘Maw Maw.’
The grandmother of Ja’Quin Thomas was known by nearly everyone around Ville Platte as Tina, but she had no plans to allow her grandbaby to call her by her first name.

On Tuesday, December 27, 2016, at about 10:30 a.m., a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agent was notified by a hunter that there was an overturned vehicle in the ditch along Chicot State Park Road.

The Mamou Police Department is requesting assistance in locating Jacob Jack, who is wanted for theft.
Jack became wanted after security footage showed him, along with Alex Ardoin, selling rims that were stolen off of a vehicle in Mamou at a local recycling business in the area.

The Evangeline Parish Police Jury held a special budget meeting on December 21, 2016.

The Cajun Catfish & Buffet has received three citations from the Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control for administrative violations.