Closer to the Midnight Cry

Columns/Opinions

May 28, 2025

I grew up in a house of one television. Yes, I know that sounds archaic. It was black and white, and it was box shaped about three feet by three feet. It was on a swivel stand with two knobs, one for volume and one for channel selections. On top was a rabbit-ears antenna and we only got two channels.

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HISTORIC ACQUISITION: LEDD’s New Home Is Uniting Past With Future

LEDD’s New Home Is Uniting Past With Future

By Craig Franklin Editor

May 28, 2025

LEDD’s New Home Is Uniting Past With Future Perhaps no structure in Jena is more recognizable than the historic, downtown corner building that for ove...

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10-Yr.-Old Creates Comic Books

By Craig Franklin Editor

May 28, 2025

With a name like River Book, it’s almost destiny that he would become a writer. His creativity is already shining as he has written and illustrated tw...

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Staff Report Memorial Day Coverage Featured Next Week

Memorial Day Coverage Featured Next Week

May 28, 2025

Due to an early printing deadline, coverage of the parish’s two Memorial Day programs will be featured in next week’s issue of this newspaper, as anno...

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School Dismissed For Summer

New school year begins Aug. 6

Staff Report

May 28, 2025

New school year begins Aug. 6 Students in LaSalle Parish were dismissed for their summer vacation last Friday as the end of the 2024-2025 school year ...

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Rod Brady’s 37th Nursing Class Graduates

By Craig Franklin Editor

May 28, 2025

The Central Louisiana Technical Community College Rod Brady Campus in Jena recently concluded another nursing cohort, seeing 23 outstanding students c...

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Largest Demonstration To Date At ICE Facility

By Craig Franklin Editor

May 28, 2025

They came from all over. New Orleans. Houston. Austin. San Antonio. And many other cities around the south as six large buses of demonstrators arrived...