On the front page of this week’s issue appears a story about one of the most unique high school clubs I’ve ever heard of: the first-ever, Jena High School BBQ Club. This club, made up of 17 students, made history as the first nationally registered barbeque club in Louisiana and in their very first y...

I come from a family of duck hunters who have wet their waders and rubber boots in the mud and waters of Catahoula Lake since my daddy was a wee lad. The only childhood memories I have of camouflage involve duck blinds, duck calls, and duck feathers. That being said, understand that the men of the h...

I’ve watched with interest but not surprise the overreaction of the national media and liberal Members of Congress who decry the “great damage” President Trump’s pauseand- review of some discretionary federal grants will supposedly cause. Well, President Trump was overwhelmingly re-elected based upo...

Wives are caretakers. Husbands, shall we say, are caretakers too, just of a different kind and from an alternate universe. The extremes between the tw...

“The truth will out!” William Shakespeare tells us, and it has. Certainly since at least 2020, millions of us have believed that speech — primarily co...

For as long as there have been high schools in LaSalle Parish, sports have been a dominating factor for the overall success of our schools. As an avid...