A range rider may soon be roaming Avoyelles Parish School Board properties. Then again, maybe not. We’ll have to wait a month to find out.
They say if you are expecting a punch in the gut, you’re relieved to receive only a slap in the face. However, the next punch could be back to the gut.
The Avoyelles Parish Police Jury will conduct a public hearing at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday (Aug. 14) to discuss the upcoming sales tax renewal and new property tax propositions on the Dec. 8 ballot.
Marksville Elementary School teachers took a school bus to visit students in the community last week prior to the start of school this past Thursday. The teachers handed out bags with school shirts and door prize tickets to be used at the school’s open house last Tuesday. Those participating included (not in order) Stacey Duncan, Caitlin St. Romain, Samantha LeCroy, Ronisha Coppage, Albertha Courtney, Mattie Pierite, Cicely Jacob and Christina Coco and several others.
{Photo courtesy of MES Principal Nicole Gagnard}
Usually it’s parents and children who go to the school to meet the teachers and administrators prior to the opening day.
Tracy Regard (left) and Jessica Dekle, co-founders of Beyond A Spectrum autism treatment center, have been working for over a year to get everything ready to open their Marksville center in September. {Photo by Raymond L. Daye}
{Editor’s Note: Autism is a growing concern throughout the nation. There is one existing treatment center in the parish and two proposed centers expected to open later this year.
For more than a year, “Project Blue” was a dream Vidalia hoped would come true.
Still Tigers
Coach Dwain Roark of Champion Christian College in Hot Springs, Ark., helps new recruits Ricky Hayes Jr. of Cottonport (right) and Kristopher Bachman of Center Point sign paperwork officially making them part of the small college’s first baseball team. Both played for the Marksville High Tigers and received four-year athletic scholarships to play for the CCC Tigers this year. {Photo by Raymond L. Daye}
Two young men will soon be playing the game they love on the same piece of ground where Babe Ruth hit major league baseball’s first 500-foot home run in 1918.
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Still Tigers
Coach Dwain Roark of Champion Christian College in Hot Springs, Ark., helps new recruits Ricky Hayes Jr. of Cottonport (right) and Kristopher Bachman of Center Point sign paperwork officially making them part of the small college’s first baseball team. Both played for the Marksville High Tigers and received four-year athletic scholarships to play for the CCC Tigers this year. {Photo by Raymond L. Daye}
Two young men will soon be playing the game they love on the same piece of ground where Babe Ruth hit major league baseball’s first 500-foot home run in 1918.
By Raymond L. Daye
A WINNING SMILE
Jackie Small (back row, center) stands with her 1989 Marksville High basketball team. Team members include her daughter Latisha Small, Stacey Bordelon, Adrena Lee, Kim Kitchen, Stephanie Reynolds, Lydia Price, Raquel Deshautelle, Rochelle Williams, Staci Bonnette and Sharla Gordon.
Marksville High School’s gymnasium may soon be named in honor of former teacher and coach Jackie Small who recently died.
By Garland Forman
GOING TO USSSA TOURNEY IN ORLANDO
This team photo, taken after the Glen Armentor Classic Tournament in Lafayette in April shows, from left, (back row) Assistant Coach Treyvion Williams, Gerard Griffin, Lamyrin Jones, Joseph Hutchinson, Jamarion Thompson, Ja’Quavien Bacon, Assistant Coach Demarckus Turner, Eric Waters (center row) Head Coach Romaro Turner, Desmond Waters, Edward Watson, and (front row) Kade Gauthier, Jalen Brown, Brailon Lee, Donte Stevenson, Amyrion Mingo, Talik Williams and Assistant Coach Tony St Romain.
About 20 boys, their coach and four assistant coaches will be heading to Orlando, Fl. to play in a national youth basketball tournament.
By Raymond L. Daye
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Some recent editorials and news stories have falsely characterized regulatory review efforts currently underway at the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, apparently without having actu
By Scott Angelle Director, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
A Houston-based independent oil company is hoping to breathe new life into an old well in the Bayou Jack oil field in southern Avoyelles.
It may be a few years from now before the first paycheck would be cashed, but there are “serious discussions” underway that would locate a new oil refinery at the Port of Avoyelles in Simmesport.
By Raymond L. Daye
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