As we celebrate Christmas this week, my mind goes back to a simpler time. A time when as a child, when Christmas was much less busy than today. I now know the reason it was less busy for me then was because I was a child and did not have the headache, I mean responsibility, of doing for my children ...

And while they were there, the time came for her baby to be born. She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them. That night there were shepherds staying in the fields nearby, guarding thei...

Do you remember the roaring 20’s in the U.S.? Of course we don’t remember because we weren’t around back then. It was a time of great prosperity in this country and lasted about ten years. Herbert Hoover was elected President in a landslide. His famous saying was “a chicken in every pot, a car in ev...

Christmas is a time for memories. I have two childhood memories that have stayed with me all of my “x” number of years, and they are as clear as if th...

It’s been thirty years ago this year when a group of community leaders set in motion a project to light up the downtown area of Jena with thousands an...

LaSalle Parish lost one of its few remaining World War II veterans in the death of Lawson Stringer last week. Stringer, at 98, is believed to have bee...