Several months ago, I had two cataracts removed from my eyes. How they got there, I don’t know. As far as I can remember, they never asked my permission, and furthermore, they never paid rent for being there. According to the eye doctor, and doctors are never wrong, I now have 2020 vision. I’ve neve...

BATON ROUGE-- A bill that would gradually move $300 million annually to roads and bridges moved to the governor’s desk Thursday as the legislative session came to an end. House Bill 514 by Rep.Tanner Magee, R-Houma, passed the House 87-13. The bill was originally authored as a sales tax bill for mar...

Olla Mayor Rhonda Elliott updated the Town Council on the town’s garbage pick-up during their regular meeting last week. She said the town will continue to have trash pick-up from Waste Management on Wednesdays until December 31 when the contract expires; therefore, the town will have two days a wee...

Ginny sent in an image of an annual cicada on a satsuma tree. The insect in the image above is an annual cicada. Blake Layton of the Mississippi Stat...

Author/illustrator Ariane Trammell engaged local children with her storytelling and art lesson last week as part of the LaSalle Parish Library’s Summ...

Longtime Hardtner Medical Center Physician Dr. K.P. Mauterer, Jr., (center) and his wife, Pam, talk to Lee Richardel, Chairman of the Board of Commiss...