November 23, 2022, should have been a typical day for Ashley Franklin Keene, her two children Sydney and Samuel at home, and her husband, Dustin. It was only a few days from Thanksgiving and the Keene family had many reasons to be thankful. Ashley had just celebrated her 44th birthday two days prior...

Operation Christmas Child (OCC) 2024 is in full swing both nationally and locally according to Tasha Chatman, OCC Pick-up Coordinator for Jena and the surrounding areas. Chatman, along with Jennifer Smith, coordinator of the OCC program in Olla, are working with area churches, clubs and residents to...

The first annual LaSalle Parish Walk for Recovery has been scheduled for September 28th, 8 a.m.- 1 p.m., in downtown Jena, sponsored by the local Celebrate Recovery team, a biblically based twelve step recovery program. Celebrate Recovery Program (CRP) is an outreach of the LaSalle Ministerial Allia...

Karsen Bird, a member of the Good Pine Middle School archery team soon to move on to the Jena Junior High archery team, recently closed in on two year...

“Grief comes in waves, sometimes it’s a tidal wave and other times it’s a splash; but it comes out of nowhere,” Casie Wilbanks Bradford, founder and d...

It was the fall of 1989 when Reverend Scotty Dowell, at only 24 years of age, felt the tug of God on his heart for the ministry. Little did he realize...