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A Completely Different Atmosphere
Tigers Hope To Restore Team Chemistry Of 2019 By Ron Higgins One of Ed Orgeron’s consistent traits in his 102 games as LSU’s head football coach is assessing and correcting mistakes. Sometimes, it’s something
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McNeese Cowboys: Spring Forward to Fall
Story by Rick Sarro Photo Courtesy of MSU Sports Information McNeese is part of a unique football fraternity as one of a small number of teams that played a spring season just a few
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They’re Working It
Local Mother-Daughter Businesses Are Succeeding By Madelaine B. Landry It’s always good to see women winning in business, especially when a mother and daughter succeed in an entrepreneurial adventure together. The bond between mothers
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‘A Pretty Crazy Time’
The New Owners Of Boudreaux’s Have Encountered One Unforeseen Obstacle After Another By Brad Goins At the beginning of 2020, husband and wife Jesse and Kylee Vidrine had a plan. They would, somehow, acquire
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Dance Conservatory Of Louisiana
New Dance Studio Will Focus On Strength And Variety Of Dancing Styles Story By Brad Goins • Photos by Andrew Fassbender Local dancer and Pilates instructor Katelyn Chargois is opening a new dance studio, the
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Downtown Revival
Life (And Fun) Is Returning To Downtown Lake Charles By Kerri Cooke Nearly two years after the city of Lake Charles and the Southwest Louisiana Convention and Visitor’s Bureau began marketing the downtown area
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Top 50 Locally Owned Businesses
Abell & Son, Inc. Abell & Son has been serving the Lake Area since 1916. This 105-year-old family-owned business is currently on their fifth generation of ownership. Specializing in the agricultural industry, the company
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An Insane Rage
A Lake Arthur Killer Has A Long History Of Mental Illness By Brad Goins Sunday July 17, 1983, was a very bad day for Lake Arthur, La. The trouble began at 9:30 am, when
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Flying With The Golden Knights
Behind The Scenes With The US ARMY’S Golden Knights Parachute TEA Story And Photos By Bill Coyne It was a five-year-old kid living just a few miles from Castle Air Force Base in Merced,
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A BIT LESS INTENSE
Experts Say The 2021 Hurricanes Will Be Active, But Nothing Like 2020 By Brad Goins After Hurricane Delta became the second super-storm to batter the Lake Area within two months, folks around here found
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