Well, it has certainly been a historic last few weeks in our fair town and parish. First, our Jena Giants football team plowed through all comers from LHSAA Division III to earn a trip to the State Championship Game in the Superdome. Knowing that it would take a nearly perfect performance to beat St...

In my 56 years on this earth, I’ve had some incredible experiences. My definition of an incredible experience is being part of an event that so profoundly affected me that it left me wanting to experience it again. I believe in my heart that the Jena High School football program was just part of tha...

We may recall Al Gore, in his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, focused on climate change. The film included a moving clip of a ‘sad, animated polar bear floating away to its death’ suggesting that global warming would cause the extinction of the polar bear population. But Gore doesn’t talk about ...

Statistics reported by central Louisiana’s economic development agency Louisiana Central recently showed that 85% of all jobs in LaSalle Parish come f...

Dear Rusty: I recently I heard the tail end of a radio program which was discussing “signing up for my Social Security account.” I am now 76 years old...

The term “wilderness” is a central part of the Scripture. Anyone who has read or studied the Bible has heard the story of the Children of Israel wande...