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A NEW BUSINESS IS DESIGNED TO GIVE CUSTOMERS THE CASKETS THEY WANT AT PRICES THEY CAN AFFORD By Brad Goins On July 4, longtime Lake Charles resident Kit Kittrell held the soft opening for
Read More »Cowboy Up
THE LANCE GUIDRY ERA BEGINS AT MSU: Season Preview By Rick Sarro Football is a game of inches. For the McNeese Cowboys, make that 36 inches. That one yard made a world of difference at
Read More »“Few Of Us Were Mentally Prepared”
LC NATIONAL GUARD UNIT MEMBER REMEMBERS ACTIVATION DURING 1990 PERSIAN GULF WAR By Jonathan Fontenot In 1990, 11 years before the ongoing war on terror started in 2001, we were involved in another conflict
Read More »Supply And Demand
LOCAL TEACHERS SUPPLY MORE THAN JUST KNOWLEDGE By Anne Regan Walking around any store at this time of the year, it is almost impossible to ignore the “back to school” signs staring you
Read More »‘I’m 100 Percent About It’
Rusty Metoyer’s ‘Nouveau Zydeco’ Keeps Old Family Traditions Alive Story By Brad Goins • Photos By Lindsey Janies Of his second zydeco CD, In Due Time, Rusty Metoyer says, “I’ve been pushing it hard.” Part of his devotion
Read More »Lydia Crochet Wins State Literacy Award
Lydia Crochet is a children’s book author who lives in Lake Charles with her husband, Ray, and rescue dog, Jeanie. Her book “Jeanie the 3-Legged Dog; I Don’t Need Four Feet” has won two
Read More »THE PROVING GROUND
Fort Polk Celebrates 75 Years As America’s Premier Training Facility For Harsh Conditions By Brad Goins On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan conducted a massive attack on Pearl Harbor that would ensure that the United States
Read More »The Compassionate Doc Jeane: Vernon Parish’s Doctor
By Anne Regan The Jeane family of Vernon Parish has deep roots as cultivators of the land. Their ancestors, along with several million other colonists, left the eastern states in the early 1800s for
Read More »Dr. Yvonne Stelly-Anderson
LC’s Oldest Living Female Doctor Celebrates 95th Birthday By Lydia Crochet Dr. Yvonne Stelly-Anderson, of Lake Charles, has celebrated many milestones throughout her lifetime. And on June 22, 2016, she celebrated a monumental
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