Marksville High and Bunkie Magnet high schools will both celebrate Homecoming this week. Events include class reunions, parades, royalty and of course...football.
Maintenay, France, with its ancient water mill still in use, is among the stops of the April tour. Pierre Mayeux, ancestor of the Avoyelles Mayeux family, was born at Maintenay and migrated in 1720 to Louisiana. The 300th anniversary of the ships which brought the early families of Louisiana is the theme of the tour being discussed Friday in Marksville.
Information about the planned 300th Anniversary Ancestry Tour of France will be available from 4 to 6 p.m., Friday (Oct. 18) at Fresh Catch/Broken Wheel Brewery in Marksville.
School employees who returned to the Avoyelles Parish School District this school year will be receiving an extra supplement check at the end of this month.
With all 49 precincts in Avoyelles Parish reporting, complete but unofficial results show Connie Desselle elected as clerk of court with 53.45 percent of the vote in a three-person race.
With results from two precincts still out -- one in Avoyelles Police Jury District 3 and the other in PJ District 9 -- it appears Connie Desselle has been elected as Clerk of Court and Sheriff Doug
With 526 of 531 precincts reporting, it appears Preston Castille has won the Board of Elementary & Secondary Education District 8 seat with over 52 percent of the vote in a four-candidate race.
Heather Cloud has won the Dist 28 Senate race. Glen Womack has won the seat for Dist. 32
In the Dist 28 State Representative race Hessmer businessman Daryl Deshotel has won the seat
Obituaries
A Mass of Christian Burial for Mr. Clarence Joseph Guillot will be held on Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.
Funeral services for Viola Sturges will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, October 14, 2019 in the chapel of Hixson-Ducote Funeral Home of Bunkie with the Bro. John Clardy officiating.
Funeral Mass for Elma Lachney of Plaucheville will begin at 12:00pm on Monday, October 14th, 2019 at the Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church of Plaucheville with Fr. Martin Laird officiating.
Funeral Mass for Eunice Ann Tassin Clark of Moreauville will begin at 11am on Thursday, October 17, 2019 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Moreauville with Fr. Jose Pallipurath officiating.
A memorial service, celebration of life for John “Scotty” Normand of Simmesport will begin at 2pm on Saturday, October 12, 2019 at First Baptist Church in Simmesport with very special friend, Rev.
Columns
Scott Angelle
The Director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Scott Angelle will now serve as the chairman of the Royalty Policy Committee (RPC). Appointed by U. S.
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Director Scott Angelle told attendees of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry Conference, held at the Port of New Orleans Tuesday, that
The Austin Chalk and Tuscaloosa Marine Shale oil-producing formations -- both of which are located in Avoyelles Parish -- continue to draw attention from drilling and exploration investors.
By Raymond L. Daye
Lifestyle
A wing of La Salpêtrière Orphanage/Prison in Paris where Anne Roland Bordelon was held before being forced to migrate to Louisiana where she became the ancestress of one of the largest families of Avoyelles Parish. Sites such as this are among those to be visited.
A unique tour of France on the original Louisiana colonists has been announced that is of special interest to Avoyelles Parish families.
It was a bit warm for a Fall festival, but there weren’t any complaints from the vendors or the shoppers at this past Saturday’s Bunkie Trade Days on Main Street.
By Raymond L. Daye
The invitation to David Haas Memorial United Methodist Church's dedication and open house events shows the sanctuary, which was able to use much of the former building's walls, and a new addition on the right that replaced a structure that was destroyed in the November 2016 fire.
Three years after a devastating and demoralizing fire destroyed much of the church, David Haas Memorial United Methodist Church will be dedicating its rebuilt sanctuary at 10 a.m. Sept. 8.
By Raymond L. Daye
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