Broadband update provided for parish

Veneeth Iyengar, Executive Director of the Louisiana Office of Broadband (Connect-La), and Jason Hunt, CEO of CableSouth/Swyft Fiber, address dozens of attendees in the packed LaSalle Parish Police Jury meeting room last week during a broadband update meeting. (See story.)

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March 21, 2023

LaSalle Parish’s three channels of funding projected to bring affordable high-speed broadband fiber internet connectivity to 85% of the parish and the timelines were the main topics of discussion at a broadband update meeting last week in Jena.

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Truck Crashes Into Business on Labor Day

Staff Report

September 11, 2024

A two-vehicle traffic crash on Labor Day sent one truck crashing into a downtown business and left two people with minor injuries. According to Jena P...

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Ordinance Prohibiting RV Parks in Jena Fails – Supporters of Proposed Law Angrily Leave Two-Hour Jena Council Meeting

Supporters of Proposed Law Angrily Leave Two-Hour Jena Council Meeting

By Craig Franklin Editor

September 11, 2024

Supporters of Proposed Law Angrily Leave Two-Hour Jena Council Meeting For an hour and a half, the September 3 meeting of the Jena Town Council was co...

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Sales Along 84 Successful:

Sales Along 84 Successful: Slow Start Due to Heavy Rains

Staff Report

September 11, 2024

Heavy rains fell to start the 2024 Sales Along 84 last Thursday, but that did not damper the second annual event from being deemed very suc-cessful wi...

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Jena Purchases Downtown Corner Property

By Craig Franklin Editor

September 11, 2024

The Jena Town Council voted to invest in the future as they agreed to purchase property on the corner of E. Oak Street (US 84) and Third Street during...

Columns/Opinions, Editorial

Craig Franklin:

A Lesson From My Grandpa

September 11, 2024

I remember years ago, listening to my Grandpa Jim Richmond, a Baptist minister for the final 35 years of his life, talk about how bad it was during th...

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Road Irritation

September 11, 2024

My better half has always struggled with, shall I say, road ‘irritation’. If I were impolite, I would term it what it appears to be, but ‘rage’ seems ...