My family didn’t eat gumbo when we sat at the table. We were meat and vegetable people. We didn’t eat shrimp or oysters because they were not available in the Jena area. In fact, we didn’t eat any seafood. We ate little wild game because that was not something that we wanted to eat. We ate a lot of ...

BATON ROUGE—A House committee advanced a bill Thursday to extend the time to prepare and verify absentee ballots prior to election day. It also advanced a bill that may soon allow your teenager to accompany you in the voting booth. Both bills were written by Rep. Lance Harris, R-Alexandria. The bill...

Olla Mayor Rhonda Elliott announced at the Council’s regular April meeting held Monday night of last week that the town now has the $1-million in funding for upgrading the town’s water system. The town received the 2020-2021 LCDBG (Louisiana Community Development Block Grant) funding for $957,100, ...