I guess everyone has had someone in their life, besides their parents, that influenced them greatly and helped mold them into the person they are today. For me, that person was a grammar school football, basketball and track coach named Johnny Knox. Coach Knox was an unpaid volunteer who donated his...

From the days of my youth, I recall with great fondness the presidency of President Ronald Reagan. Full disclosure—my brother Tom was working on the White House Staff at the time, and I was attending The Heights Preparatory School in Potomac, Maryland. So, on the weekends, I rode the Metro down to D...

During the decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s, LaSalle Parish’s economy was driven mainly by two industries: oil and timber. Timber was the first industry to literally build LaSalle Parish and when the oil boom occurred in the 1930’s, it became just as much a staple industry as timber, if not more.For ...

With so much attention being given to the presidential election itself, it is easy to overlook another critical factor that will be determined in the ...

Starting next Wednesday, some 410 employees of the La Salle Parish School System will receive free digital subscriptions to this newspaper for the 202...

Life consists of daily habits and behaviors that you and I practice routinely. In fact, whatever we do in normal routine life is what we will do durin...