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By: Glynn Harris In last weeks column, we talked about that “sweet spot” on our lakes, the thermocline. To refresh, the thermocline separates the warmer oxygen-rich layer of water separated from colder oxygen-deleted water below the thermocline.  There is another feature on lakes in later summer that upsets the balance of the water above the thermocline and that below this …

By: Tuffy Fields It is amazing how time goes by for us and we are sitting at the coffee table asking ourselves, “Where has all the time gone”.  On August 1st, 1990, I went to be in my apartment in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia. As usual I fell asleep as the BBC signed off. The next day was the beginning of …

By: Sallie Rose Hollis The Enigma Explorer has been falling down on the job lately. In fact, she’s been so lackadaisical you may have forgotten she exists.  Well, I’m here to tell you: She’s still alive and well, pondering and musing, day in and day out.  Just to refresh your memory, the EE (who also goes by the initials srh) …

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 …

 FOX 8 Staff  FOX8Live.com   WVUE) – Louisiana State Police troopers found more than 1,200 pounds of suspected marijuana, along with suspected cocaine, Adderall, ecstasy, two guns and more than $4,000 in cash during three separate traffic stops. Arrests were made.  One of the three stops led to the discovery of nearly 1,100 pounds of suspected marijuana after a police dog …

Staff Report  “I am humbled by the trust that the voters of Lincoln and Union Parishes have placed in me to serve as their next District Attorney. It is a responsibility that I do not take lightly. I look forward to working each day with our partners in law enforcement to help keep our communities safe. Criminals will be held …

 School board, judicial and municipal contests highlight a crowded election year  Qualifying has closed for the Nov. 3 election, leaving Union Parish voters with a ballot stretching from the United States Senate and Congress to school board, judicial, justice of the peace, constable and municipal offices.  The Louisiana Secretary of State’s candidate inquiry lists 78 candidates under 44 office headings …

By: Glynn Harris One of my regular contacts I use to get current fishing reports is crappie guide, Wesley Miller. On my visit with him last week, he mentioned something that whetted my interest. He told me that this time of year, he keeps his eye on his electronics to locate a thin line that shows up and he fishes …

By: Tuffy Fields “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from …

By: Jim Brown Bayou State residents are well aware that Louisiana is a pleasant place to live. Some would sarcastically say that we are fat, dumb, and happy down here in the deepest of the deep southern states. The state motto is, after all, Laissez les bons temps rouler. For you out of staters, that’s pronounced Lay say lay bohn …