A special benefit will be held Saturday, March 7, from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Olla Town Square for longtime Olla resident Terry Sanders. Sanders, who is known throughout the parish for his years of officiating summer league baseball and softball, high school baseball, softball and football, alo...

We don’t give prehistoric people enough credit. These remarkable folks learned to walk upright, discovered fire, and invented the wheel. Sadly, they made that wheel out of wood, accidentally set it on fire…then had to start over again. Tribes painstakingly carved mud huts out of the earth. That must...

Bitterly cold weather has settled in across Louisiana and much of the country. If you woke up Monday morning to discover frozen, limp plants outside your window, you might be tempted to trim them or simply discard them to tidy up the garden. But that’s not the best idea in many cases, said LSU AgCen...

Four big school improvement projects are on the slate for this summer as the LaSalle Parish School Board voted Tuesday night, February 3, to advertise...

Thanks to Hardtner Medical Center (HMC) in Urania, a school-based health center could be coming to Olla-Standard Elementary School in the near future ...

It was a somber atmosphere at the Jena Town Council’s monthly meeting held Monday morning, February 2, as business was conducted without Mayor LaDawn ...