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🗞️ Avoyelles Pages Through The Decades 📅

🗞️ Avoyelles Pages Through The Decades 📅

By Donna Culotta 90 Years Ago From our Dec. 7, 1935 edition Sheriff J.J. Jeansonne and Lester L. Bordelon were named as delegates from Avoyelles Parish to attend the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in New Orleans. Avoyelles farmers were given the opportunity to buy their own farms. Clarence

🗳️ Avoyelles Voters Face Key Decision: Home Rule Charter vs Police Jury

🗳️ Avoyelles Voters Face Key Decision: Home Rule Charter vs Police Jury

By Dr. Jay Callegari This May, voters in Avoyelles Parish will face a defining choice: should we keep our current police jury system, or move to a new structure under a Home Rule Charter? Right now, Avoyelles is governed by a police jury. That means the same elected jurors both

🚰💧 LCDBG Application for Water System Improvements in Hessmer!

🚰💧 LCDBG Application for Water System Improvements in Hessmer!

PUBLIC NOTICE LCDBG Application Available for Review The Village of Hessmer announces that an application for FY 2026 Louisiana Community Development Block Grant (LCDBG) funds will be submitted for the following: * ACTIVITY: LCDBG funds will be used to make water system improvements. * OBJECTIVE: To provide adequate service for low-moderate income

🎉 Reliving the Magic of Moreauville’s Christmas Parade 🎄- Avoyelles of yesteryear

🎉 Reliving the Magic of Moreauville’s Christmas Parade 🎄- Avoyelles of yesteryear

email your photos to news@avoyellestoday.com Scenes from Moreauville’s annual Christmas parade on Dec. 7, 1986 drew large crowds and festive spirit along the bayou. The parade featured 69 entries and attracted an estimated 2,000 viewers along the route. These moments were originally published in The Avoyelles

📚 Avoyelles Parish School Board: Council Proceedings Highlights 🏫

SCHOOL BOARD PROCEEDINGS The Avoyelles Parish School Board met in regular session on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. at the School Board Office in Marksville, Louisiana, with the following members present: Rickey Adams, President; Robin Moreau, Vice President; Latisha Small; Lynn Deloach; Keith Lacombe; Jay Callegari;

🚨 Important Notice: John Ab’s Applies for Alcohol Permit! 🍷

🚨 Important Notice: John Ab’s Applies for Alcohol Permit! 🍷

NOTICE John Ab’s is applying to the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control of the state of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content at retail in Parish of Avoyelles at the following address: 109 North West Main St., Bunkie, LA 71322. OWNER:

🥳 Meet the Champion of the Boudin Battle 2026! 🌭

🥳 Meet the Champion of the Boudin Battle 2026! 🌭

Well folks, the Great Boudin Battle of Avoyelles Parish has its first official champion of the keyboard, and his name is Karl Huesman. Karl won this week’s $25 gift certificate for his fine submission on “Boudin in the Parish,” where he broke down boudin flavors with the seriousness of