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Local Author’s Thriller Saga
Gail Parker recently published the fourth book in her Hidden 12 Saga. Parker, who was born and raised in Moss Bluff, spent six years writing the saga. The books consistently make use of at
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Update I: King Cake Baby Gets Clothes
One of our top priorities here in the Up Front editorial offices is to get the really silly story out to the public. It’s rare that we get to follow up on one of
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Ride On
These Local Seniors Have No Intention Of Getting Off Their Motorcycles By Brad Goins Bob Phelps Today, 74-year-old Bob Phelps walks with a cane and a decided limp. In 2005, he was driving his motorcycle across an
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Album Addict
Album Addict is what Steve Belcher calls his booth full of vinyl albums at Cedar Chest Antiques in downtown Lake Charles. He thinks he has 5,000 to 6,000 albums for sale at the moment.
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Trash Talk
Litter In Calcasieu Parish Costs Millions A Year You’re Picking Up The Tab. By Brad Goins The opinion of those in the know is that littering on the area’s roadways has gotten worse in the
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Lafayette: Chicken City USA
Waitr recently published its list of the 20 items residents of Lafayette most often ordered through the service in 2018. You can find the list at The Daily Advertiser site. The food most
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Fool Me Once
Congratulations to the N.O. Advocate’s Keith Spera, who just used some nifty journalistic tricks to punk Advocate readers into thinking the Rolling Stones would be playing at next year’s Jazz Fest. Underneath a huge
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Enigmatic Art
In the last column, the Up Fronter wrote about local artist Heather Kelley’s art works on the theme of the “midden heap” — an Irish term for communal garbage dump. From that, we can
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Police Blotter
Once in a way, criminals do stuff that’s bizarre enough to earn at least a mention in the Lake Area’s most beloved column. Consider the case of one Sarah Parker, a 24-year-old Moss Bluff
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