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NOT AGAIN!!!
Recently, de Lake Charles City Council again brought up de topic uf a downtown hotel. Now, If you’ve been livin’ around here for any amount uf time, you know dis haz been a regular topic for at leas’ de las’ 10 years. An’ it’s shot down every time, an’ wit’ good reason. Folks don’t »
IS THE BIG BOOM FINALLY STARTING?
I just took a look at the most recent sales tax report from the School Board and the numbers are pretty impressive. The chart below shows our sales tax revenues over the past 10 years. It uses a 12-month rolling average of taxable sales to remove seasonal fluctuations so one can better see the »
AXES OF EVIL: THE TRUE STORY OF THE AX-MAN MURDERS BT TODD C. ELLIOT
Walterville, Oregon: Trine Day, 2015. 143 pages. $19.95. Illustrated by Hal Moore. La. Author Todd C. Elliott Tells The Story Of A Serial Killer Who Stopped In L.C. One Fateful Night A Century Ago With the publication of his new book Axes of Evil, Todd C. Elliott stakes out his place as »
GREEN ACRES
Mini Farm Livin’ Is The Life For Kevin And Pam Mattingly And A Growing Number Of Other Locals Kevin Mattingly and his wife, Pam, decided in 2007 to follow their dream of living in the country, growing their own produce, raising chickens, providing their own food, and living the peaceful and relaxing (though »
FREE TO BREATHE
5k Run / 1 Mile Walk Fundraiser To Benefit Lung Cancer Research March 28 Claire Howard Parker was diagnosed with lung cancer at age 30. One month later, she died from complications of the disease. “It was such a senseless death,” says her mother, Cindy Howard, a nurse instructor at McNeese State University. »
I GUESS THIS MAKES IT OFFICIAL
A beautiful Sunday in January, I had no plan, but knew it was not a day to waste inside. I began driving, and there was only one direction. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ Only I know how soft I used to be. There’s soft, as in tender, but I was »
GET OUT NOW
Dear Dr. Archer, I went on a few dates with my brother-in-law’s uncle. This man has wanted to go out with me for years. When I noticed his page on Facebook, I sent a friend request. We chatted, and I asked him out. We went to a mutual friend’s party, and had a wonderful »
ROBOT CAMEL JOCKEYS
Two recent innovations to the generations-old Middle East sport of camel racing boosted its profile. First, to cleanse the sport of a sour period in which children from Bangladesh were trafficked for use as jockeys, owners have begun using “robot” jockeys — electronic dummies that respond to trainers who are tracking the races with »
SWLA RICE FARMERS HOPE FOR AN IMMENSE NEW MARKET IN CUBA
“I’ve been working on this for 10 years. I’m very passionate about it.” That’s Welsh rice farmer Brian Wild talking about the potential rice market in Cuba that became a bit more accessible recently when President Barack Obama declared “normalized” relations between Cuba and the U.S. Wild went to Cuba in 2001. He was »
POPS AND ROCKETS
Not long after moving back to his hometown of Lake Charles, Nick Villaume asked his childhood friend, Robbie Austin, if he would go into business with him. Villaume dreamed of starting and operating a gourmet frozen pops business. Pops? As in Popsicles? Robbie needed some convincing, to say the least. There’s nothing new about »
