Four JAG students from Jena High School – Brock Shively, Serenity McCoy, Karrizzma Kittlin, and Paris Simmons - presented a brief program on dangers of smoking to members of the LaSalle Parish School Board during its regular meeting for May. The program, “Next Era”, is a statewide youth movement for...

BATON ROUGE—A bill to extend early voting from seven to 10 days during presidential elections was approved unanimously by a House committee Wednesday. Rep. Frederick Jones, D-Monroe, offered his bill after the record voter turnout in the 2020 presidential election. Louisiana saw over 2.1 million pe...

Today is the National Day of Prayer. As I scroll though Facebook, I see many pictures of the many different gatherings of people who attended prayer services across the land. There were several pictures of prayer gatherings there in Jena. For more than forty-five years I have participated in the Nat...