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Burmese Python Snakeskin Masks

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Brian Wood, owner of All American Gator Products in Dania Beach, Fla., is taking face masks to a whole new level by fashioning coverings made with the skin of Burmese pythons. “Some people want

What Daddy Left Behind

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By Madelaine B. Landry My father left us in 1980, too young at age 62. Daddy wasn’t a wealthy man; so mostly what he passed on to his children could be shared, not spent.

There’s A Buried Car In My Yard

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When a man in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, England, set out to build a deck in his back garden, he uncovered a mystery. As John Brayshaw, 40, began digging post holes, he unearthed an automobile

Music School Gets New Studio

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The SWLA Music School has moved into a large new studio space at 343 Broad St., between Mama Reta’s and Panorama Music House. The Music School will be housed in the back section of

A Conversation With Author Madelaine Landry By Sabrina Dowies Madelaine Landry was a third-grade student at St. Julian Eymard School in Algiers, La., when her principal announced the news of President John F. Kennedy’s

To Bee or Not To Bee

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By Madelaine B. Landry “Most people don’t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about.” — Sue Monk Kidd When

That’s My Pet Foot-Long Goldfish

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When Alexandria Miller of Chicago won a two-inch goldfish at a carnival, she assumed he would stay the same size. But since then, Gerald the goldfish has grown to be 12 inches long, and

Stay Off Of The Bed, Cat

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Lacie the Norwegian Forest cat is at the center of a heated two-year-long dispute in Brewerton, N.Y., that has now gone to the state Supreme Court. Original owner Carol Money accuses adoptive owner Danette

The Daze of the Lockdown

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Lagniappe’s three lead writers report on their experiences during the lockdown. CORONAVIRUS NOTEBOOK By Brad Goins Until mid-March, I’d followed the coronavirus story in a curious, and entirely casual, manner. I felt no

Louisiana COVID-19 Info Line

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Information about COVID-19, which has now been classified by the World Health Organization as a “global pandemic,” is evolving every hour, and the United Way of Southwest Louisiana has partnered with the Louisiana Dept.