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By: Glynn Harris Of the twelve months that constitute a calendar year, one month stands out as my favorite. October can be rather interesting. The temperature, as it likely will be this year, might tend to be on the warm side. Other Octobers, we can get chilly temps, maybe even an occasional frost.  Before delving into why this month is …

By: Tuffy Fields Life is full of adventure and it is up to the individual that is navigating his or her life’s journey to take advantage of what life throws at it. Personally, I enjoy change and that is why I embrace project management. One day during the oil market oil market glut in the mid 1980s I was rebuilding …

By: Sallie Rose Hollis I’ve already started wearing my Halloween T-shirts. I don’t want to get left behind and end up on Oct. 31 with three neatly folded T’s still sitting in my closet, as I do most every year.  Yep. Last Thursday – Oct. 1 – I wore my black shirt with orange lettering that says, “You can’t scare …

Antioch Baptist Church  3501 Hwy 828  Farmerville  318-368-3591  Early Worship – 8:30 a.m.  Sunday School – 9:45 a.m.  Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m.  Bethel Temple Pentecostal Church  2144 Hwy 33 N.  Marion  Sunday School -11 a.m.  Sunday Worship -12 p.m.  318-608-6766  Canaan Baptist Church  502 Canaan Church Rd.  Spearsville  Sunday School -10am  Sunday Worship -11am  870-312-3440  Bro. Brian Williams  Conway …

 The sixth annual Bayou D’Arbonne Folk Festival will liven up downtown Farmerville on Saturday, October 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the plaza of the Union Museum of History and Art, 211 N. Main Street, and the adjoining streets. The family-friendly folk festival will feature live bluegrass music, dance, arts, traditional pioneer crafts, food vendors, re-enactors, Dutch Oven …

 STAFF REPORT LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT   Judiciary Commission of Louisiana Announces New Appointee  New Orleans, La. ─ Third Judicial District Court Judge Bruce Hampton has been appointed to the Judiciary Commission by Louisiana Senate President J. Cameron Henry Jr. for a four-year term which began May 4.  Judge Hampton earned his bache

 STAFF REPORT   Jones’ two public jobs, significant case backlog, become issues in judge race  Lewis Jones’ simultaneous employment in two Parish district attorney’s offices, and the criminal case backlog in Lincoln and Union parishes, are drawing attention in his race against Phillip Ellis for a Third Judicial District judgeship.  Jones serves as chief felony prosecutor for the Third Judicial District …

By: Glynn Harris If you like to catch and eat catfish, there is nobody anywhere more fortunate than Roy Dupree. He lives with his wife on the shores of Clear Lake in Natchitoches Parish and two of his sons and their families live next door. He discovered awhile back that the lake was teeming with one of his and his …