More than 150 LaSalle Parish seniors will participate in graduation exercises this week with ceremonies at LaSalle High School on Thursday night and at Jena High School on Friday night. For the past several weeks, the staff here at the newspaper has been working on a special souvenir graduation edit...

Tanner and Dakota are waiting for me. They’re standing at the corner of their chain-link fence, watching the sidewalk. They know I’m coming, even if they don’t know exactly when, even if they can’t see the sidewalk very well and can’t hear at all. Tanner and Dakota are my two oldest dog customers, d...

On Saturday, May 1, history was made in Sulphur, Louisiana as both the Jena Lady Giants and LaSalle Lady Tigers softball teams won state championships in their respective classifications. I was there that day to witness the historic event covering the Lady Giants, along with staff photographer Morga...

Family. We all have family of some kind. When people ask me about my family, I say well I have a wife, Lisa and a daughter, Cameron. Many will look at...

As an early newspaperman, Benjamin Franklin (probably one of my ancestors) was among the first to fight ‘cancel culture’ in his day. Now, some federal...

Dax stared at me in disbelief. I am the Treat Lady, and I had no treats. It was inexplicable. Dax is one of my regular customers. He is a young black ...