Small Business Week is being celebrated throughout America during the week of May 3-9, 2021. An annual event sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Association (SBA), the week is an opportunity for national and community leaders to recognize the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and sm...

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 ...

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, ...