Most of you readers know that I love to visit ghost towns…especially those in the old west. Well, here’s the story of two lesser-known towns, but both are filled with interesting history. There was once a small mining town in New Mexico named Quartzburg. It had more than its fair share of thugs, thi...

LaSalle Parish Students of the Year were recently selected and will be recognized at the LaSalle Parish School Board’s meeting Thursday night, January 13, at the Media Center in Jena. Honored as the Student of the Year in the Elementary Division is Gentry Louise Stowe. Gentry is a fifth grader at O...

Many events made news in LaSalle Parish during the year just ended. Following is a week-by-week review of some of the stories that made the pages of this newspaper during the last six months of 2021. Last week, a review of the stories that appeared in the paper during the first six months of the ye...

Jena High junior Kealie Brown was chosen on Saturday as the 2021-2022 JHS Future Business Leaders of America Most Beautiful Pageant Winner. She is th...

If you had the opportunity to speak to the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage, she would probably tell you that one of my strengths is forgetting. I’m...

The family of Tillman and Sharon Corley invites everyone to join them to celebrate their Golden (50th) Anniversay on Saturday, January 8, 2022, at th...