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Mia Syble: Beauty In The Bayou
By Diana Vallette Model Photos By Elite Modeling What do you want to be when you grow up? An actress? An NBA player? A model? Those answers may sound like pie-in-the-sky longshots, but for
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Flying On One Leg
By Bill Coyne All boys have dreams ingrained at an early age. Whether it’s the influence of dad’s hot rod in the garage, the rumble as a pack of motorcycles drive by or the
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Eyes Up, Buttercup
By Diana Vallette A few weeks ago, I arrived home from work and found the door under my garage unlocked and open. I’m usually very good about locking my door, and immediately a chill
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Chef’s Corner-La Truffe Sauvage’s Mohamed Chettouh
Story By Diana Vallette • Photos By Wildwoods Creative Twenty-six dog years.” It’s the answer I got when I asked both owner Arthur Durham and executive chef Mohamed Chettouh how long the pair have been
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Crawfish And Their Chimneys-And Other Fascinating Aspects Of The Crawfish’s Busy Life
By Bob Thomas There are many species of crawfish in Louisiana. Some are rather drab, while others are ornately colored with blues, reds, yellows, and greens. Only a few species occur in our coastal
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When New Construction Disrupts Natural Water Flow
By Jonathan Fontenot With all the new construction and the rebuilding from Hurricane Laura requiring loads of dirt, a common question is “what if the owners of the adjacent property build up the land
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Prestige 337
3922 Ryan Street, Lake Charles There’s a new kid on the playground, and she’s here to make a statement. Southwest Louisiana native Lyonna Veazea is a realtor who came home from Houston to take
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Is Moore Enough?
I’m almost positive it’s not a record that anyone’s ever kept track of, but surely the New Orleans Saints just set a record for taking the longest time in NFL history to hire a
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SARAH BROUSSARD
BY DIANA VALLETTE • PHOTOS BY WILDWOODS CREATIVE Sarah Broussard isn’t your typical chef. She’s the 43-year-old mother of six who you’ll find driving a 15 passenger van in order to accommodate her gaggle
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A Trunk Full Of Wartime Letters Inspires Book By Local Writer
Synopsis of Caro Giovanni (Dear John) By Madelaine Brauner Landry John Brauner, my father, was a radioman in the Infantry during World War II. He arrived in Italy in early 1945, as part of General
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