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The LaSalle High School Tigers and Jena High School Giants will open the 2018 football season this week, with the Giants hosting Winnfield on Thursday night in Jena, and the Tigers traveling to Beekman Charter.

The Jena Giants were honored to be selected to play in the prestigious Bayou Jamboree at Malone Stadium on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Monroe last Saturday.

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How many of these school bus drivers from the 1960-61 school session do you remember? Our thanks to Gloria Price Gulde for sharing this old photo for our readers to enjoy. All but two of the drivers are identified: front row, from left, Buster Cooper, Morris Smith, Marion Greer, Joe Terrell, C. E. Franklin, Earl Paul, unidentified, Nelse Allen, and unidentified; back row, Earnest Whatley, Leon Bradford, Dave Joy, Farrell Mitchell, Carter Huffman, Ikie Hailey, Sam Hodges, Earl Price, Julian Ratcliff, and Harold Ainsworth.

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Hundreds of Jena High School students and parents attended the school’s annual Sign & Dine event last Thursday, allowing much paperwork to be completed before classes began today. There were also tours of the school and free refreshments. All schools in the parish held similar open house events during the past week.

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The 2018-19 public school session in LaSalle Parish officially got underway this week, with teachers holding in-service training on Monday and Tuesday and students reporting to classes today (Wednesday), according second-year LaSalle Superintendent of Schools Janet Tullos.

Public school students reported to school for a full day of classes on Wednesday. Classes at the Head Start School in Good Pine also began on Wednesday.

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The audit for the year ending December 31, 2017, reveals the town of Jena is in very sound financial condition, as the mayor and members of the Town Council learned during the regular August meeting held Tuesday night of last week.

Scott Adams, CPA, Senior Manager with the auditing firm of Silas Simmons, LLC of Natchez, Mississippi, met with the council and mayor to go over the contents of the latest town audit.

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Entergy Louisiana customers will soon see a significant drop in their monthly bills. Thirteen years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated much of Louisiana, the low-cost bonds used to save customers hundreds of millions of dollars in storm restoration costs are now paid off.

Starting in August, a legacy Entergy Louisiana residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt- hours per month will see a reduction of approximately $4.35 in the storm restoration charge on their monthly bill, while a legacy Entergy Gulf States Louisiana residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours will pay about $2.57 less per month.

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LaSalle’s forestry industry very valuable
More than $50-million added to economy

The forest products industry contributes to each parish economy in several ways, including jobs, wages and purchases in the local economies as well as local, state and federal taxes.

Additionally, the purchase of goods and services by the forest products industry and its employees spurs economic activity in other sectors of the economy, resulting in a substantial cumulative economic contribution.

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