Every four years Lake D’Arbonne goes through a drawdown, lowering the water in the lake in order to facilitate construction and/or repairs to docks and seawalls by property owners, as well as help with aquatic vegetation control. Tuesday marked the official start of the drawdown. Just prior to the…

Union Parish Growth and Development Foundation has leased the former Farmerville High School property from the UP School Board. That’s the property that currently houses the local campus of Louisiana Delta Community College. Foundation founder Glen Post said the goal is to help Delta until funding…

A federal judge said Tuesday she is “inclined to agree” that requiring voters with COVID-19 concerns to get a doctor’s certification before using the state’s disability excuse to vote absentee places a cost burden on the right to vote. U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick said such a policy also would…

A Deliverance Ministries Regular services are prayer on Mondays at 6 p.m., Bible study on Wednesdays at 6 p.m., and morning worship is every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. 318-368-2634.   Antioch Baptist Weekly service times are: Sunday – Sunday school, 10 a.m. and worship service at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.…

Each eligible voter should consider allowing their vote to speak loudly and mater-of-factly during the November election 2020.  Voters have considerable power in their vote; to say who remain and who enters governmental office to serve the people. People deserve better representation in our…

I think I’m becoming crotchety. For example, I’ve taken to yelling at inanimate objects. When our refrigerator makes that clucking noise (it sounds just like a chicken), I give it what for. When those silly insurance commercials come on TV, if I accidentally don’t hit the mute button or switch…

In the early 1950s several businessmen from the Union Parish area sat together to discuss how to develop a project that at the time would have been considered to be an impossibility. Politicians were involved as well as other well established and well-respected businessmen. It was a small group but…

September is a prime time for using topwater baits for targeting those big fish in the South. One of my favorite times of year is late summer when baitfish are key to finding bass and other species of gamefish. By this time most of the shad have started to migrate into the creeks and the predators…

Through the turmoil of 2020, on and off the field, there is light at the end of the tunnel sports fans. Louisiana High School Athletic Association Executive Director Eddie Bonine announced last week he will make recommendations this week to go forward with the LHSAA football season beginning the…