FBI Special Agent Robert King, left, thanks area sheriffs and other law enforcement leaders for allowing their departments to join the newest child abduction team, the Alexandria JCARD team. The training will allow 40-plus specially trained officers to respond to any agency in Central Louisiana... + continue reading
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Mayor LaDawn Edwards reported to members of the Jena Town Council at their regular February meeting held on Tuesday night of last week that work on the Third Street Plaza project is underway and proceeding nicely.
Crews from Progressive Construction Company, LLC, of Alexandria, moved onto the... + continue reading
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
The Jena Junior High School Archery Team won third place in the Junior High Division out of 14 other junior high school teams at the ALAS NASP South Regional Tournament in Alexandria on February 2. The JJHS team shot a score of 3,001.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019
LaSalle students participated in the “A Day with the Doctors” program at LSU in Shreveport recently. The students had the opportunity to spend a day shadowing medical students at the medical facility. The program is made possible by a partnership between Central... + continue reading
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Officer Jenny Parker takes digital fingerprints of Fellowship Elementary Second grader sevenyear- old Abbi Grace Edwards as part of the LPSO’s EZ Child ID Program. This program, a self contained mobile child ID unit, is a free service to families and provides peace of mind... + continue reading
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Beckham Ray Thompson
Beau Riley Thompson would like to announce the birth of his baby brother, Beckham Ray Thompson.
He was born Wednesday, September 18, 2018, at 2:28 p.m. at St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria. He weighed 9-pounds 7-ounces and was 21-inches long.
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Obituaries
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Quentin “Fritz” Francis Sagdahl, 88, of Tullos, passed from this life on Sunday, January 13, 2019
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Michael “Mike” Walter Pritchard, 62, of Jena, passed from this life on Sunday, February 3, 2019.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Bertha Loread Morace, 102, of Jena, passed from this life on Tuesday, February 5, 2019.
Sports
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
The Jena Junior High School Archery Team won third place in the Junior High Division out of 14 other junior high school teams at the ALAS NASP South Regional Tournament in Alexandria on February 2.... + continue reading
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019
For those who wait patiently for those big, juicy Louisiana strawberries each year, the wait is over.
Growers in the Florida Parishes have begun picking, and the weather is working in their favor... + continue reading
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Well, what do you know! It turns out that amateur economist Donald J. Trump knows more about sound monetary policy than Fed chairman Jerome Powell and his team of hundreds of Ph.D. economists.... + continue reading
