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VPPD Chief requesting information regarding Sunday night homicide
By: ELIZABETH WEST Associate EditorThe Ville Platte Police Chief Neal Lartigue is requesting information from the public regarding a homicide that occurred on Sunday evening. According to a Ville...
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East Side Water Board Member election results
Staff ReportWith 350 voters turning out the following candidates were elected to the East Side Water System Board: Lee Ray Johnson, who defeated incumbent Steve Vidrine 236 to 126; Randal Brown, who...
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School district tax renewals will be on Saturday’s ballot
By: RAYMOND PARTSCH III Managing EditorEarly voting for Saturday’s election was higher than March’s election. Nearly 300 people, 293 to be exact, took part in the early voting period that ran from...
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New machinery will help clean up Mamou
A town of Mamou worker operates a new CAT Excavator to tear down an abandoned home on Fourth Street in downtown Mamou last Friday. The excavator is one of two new pieces of heavy machinery the town has...
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VPPD arrests suspect in Sunday shooting
By: ELIZABETH WEST Associate EditorThe Ville Platte Police Department arrested Tieberrious D. Wilson on April 25, 2017 after the 19-year-old became a suspect in a fatal shooting that recently occurred...
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Getting top marks
Chatelain’s passion for education has led her from math teacher to Principal of the Year semifinalistEvangeline Parish School Board Superintendent Darwan Lazard hands Mamou High Principal Liz Chatelain...
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A community celebration
Ville Platte Chamber of Commerce holds its annual awards banquet at Ville Platte Civic CenterBy: TONY MARKS Associate EditorTies usually go to the runner in baseball, but at the Ville Platte Chamber of...
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Ville Platte native to be celebrated by Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge
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VPE holds pep rally for LEAP test last Friday
Ville Platte Elementary fourth grade students are seen running through a sign made by faculty at the school for a special pep rally that was held for third and fourth grade students preparing to take...
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Reluctant fighter
Arvie went from avoiding confontations to becoming a champion amateur boxerAmateur boxing champion Brandon Arvie sits on a punching bag at his home in Mamou with a collection of trophies and...
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Parish voters pass three tax renewals
Breaking NewsBy: RAYMOND PARTSCH III Managing EditorDespite a dismal voter turnout, all three tax renewals for Evangeline Parish that were on the ballot passed easily this past Saturday. The parish...
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Mother arrested after leaving two-year-old unattended in vehicle
By: ELIZABETH WEST Associate EditorOn Tuesday, May 2, 2017, the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office released a press release in regard to a female being accused of leaving her child in the car alone in...
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All EP schools will be closing early today
All Evangeline Parish public school will close at 12 noon today Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Sacred Heart School will be closing at 10:30 a.m. today.Section: Local
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Education takes center stage at Ville Platte Rotary Club meeting
(From left to right, back row) Rotary Club President Peter Strawitz, Evangeline Parish School Board Title One Supervisor Grace Sibley, Mamou High Principal Liz Chatelain, Chataignier Elementary teacher...
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Police Jury discusses ways to combat flooding in area
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Basile Council amends police budget during special meeting
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Rising water
A local resident stands on his front porch surveying the rising water around his Ville Platte home on Sunday, April 30, 2017, after a massive rainfall left many parts of Evangeline Parish under water....
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Honoring the good
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Rain, rain go away
A house along Veterans Memorial Highway in the Mamou area sits in what looks like a pond for a front yard on Thursday after a second round of thunderstorms hits Evangeline Parish in just four days....
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VP Deputy Marshal suspended after being arrested for promotion of prostitution
Breaking NewsBy: ELIZABETH WEST Managing EditorVille Platte Deputy Marshal Arthur Lee Phillips was arrested by Jeff Davis Sheriff’s detectives on Monday in connection with a prostitution incident that...
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