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Gold Tier Award
Axsom Air received a “gold tier” status award from Acme Refrigeration in Baton Rouge for outstanding air conditioning equipment sales volume at the Rheem dealer banquet. From left are Acme senior e...
Jun 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Retired teachers executive committee gets update on legislative session
Baton Rouge - Dr. Lonnie Dunn of Shreveport, president of the Louisiana Retired Teachers Association, convened a meeting of the association’s executive committee Monday, June 11. Attending were ...
Jun 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Water aerobics set at Northwestern
Water aerobics will be offered this summer through Northwestern State University’s Office of Electronic and Continuing Education. The class will be taught July 2-30 and Aug. 1-31 from 11 a.m. unti...
Jun 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Events
Events that appear in this column are open to the public. The City of Natchitoches Planning and Zoning Commission now meets on the first Tuesday of each month. The Commission will meet Tuesday, Ju...
Jun 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Doyline man convicted after guns he sold are used by Mexican cartel in gun fight
United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced Wednesday that Raymond Pegg, 74, of Doyline, was convicted Tuesday by a federal jury of dealing in firearms without a license. The repetitive pu...
Jun 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Summer Camp Contribution
Peoples State Bank contributed to the Christian Outreach Center Summer Camp. The camp provides children 5-18 attending Christian Outreach Center with spiritual guidance, nutritious meals, reading s...
Jun 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Visit with the President
April Jessup Giddens, 2012 Louisiana Teacher of the Year, traveled to Washington, DC in April. Giddens was honored at the White House and met President Barack Obama. She was also honored at a rece...
Jun 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Several members of the Waskom family and friends joined Lee Waskom as he announced a planned property bequest to Northwestern State University upon his death. The property is located across University Parkway from NSU’s Watson Library. From left are Evelyn Anderson, former director of operations for Campus Corner Bookstores; Rita Fontenot, Sarah Waskom, Mary Kay Waskom, Ginny and Lee Waskom, Tracy Brown and Michele and Scott Waskom.
Grad to leave 2nd largest bequest to NSU
Northwestern State University alumnus and Natchitoches businessman Lee Waskom and his wife Ginny established a planned gift through the NSU Foundation in which a strip of property along University ...
Jun 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dottie Gill snapped these photos of damaged parts of Harmony Road.
Road in Provencal crumbling after overlay
About two years ago, Harmony Road was resurfaced for a stretch of 3 miles. All of us who travel this road on a regular basis rejoiced. Sadly, after this short amount of time that 3-mile stretch has...
Jun 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mable Shepherd
Program to honor Sis. Mable Shepherd
The Shepperd Family, God’s Extra Anointed Ones, will give a benefit program in honor of Sister Mable “Tee Wee” Shepherd at the Morning Star Baptist Church of Natchez where the Rev. Roosevelt Touss...
Jun 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Christopher Deshaun White
Man arrested on three counts attempted 1st-degree murder
The Natchitoches Police Dept. arrested Christopher Deshaun White, 20, Monday after he turned himself in to Officer Floyd Evans. White was charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder ...
Jun 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Natchitoches Fire Dept. responded to a fire at the Levy-East House Tuesday morning. The cause and origin of the fire have not been determined but are under investigation by the fire department and State Fire Marshal’s Office. The back southwest corner, pictured above, appears to have contained the bulk of the fire. Photos by Leigh Guidry
Levy-East House burns
The Natchitoches Fire Dept. received a call about 5:30-5:45 a.m. Tuesday reporting a fire in the Historic District. A fire engine and rescue truck arrived at the Levy-East House on Jefferson Street...
Jun 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lester Lee
Investment advisor among top picks to attend conference
Lester Lee from Lee, Dougherty & Ferrara Investment Management recently attended the MASTERS Conference, an event for top advisors hosted in Washington, D.C., by LPL Financial, the nation’s number ...
Jun 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts professor Dr. Mark Ward is a recipient of the US Presidential Scholars Program Teacher Recognition Award. His student, Josh Kubiak, nominated Ward.
Teacher, mentor at Louisiana School nominated by student for national award
Dr. Mark Ward, a chemistry professor and Coordinator of Student Research and Opportunity at the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts is a recipient of the 2012 U.S. Presidential Scholar...
Jun 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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$5,000 Grant
The Pilot Club of Many presented a $5,000 grant to the Women’s Resource Center to buy new, government safety standard, infant car seats for WRC clients. Three years ago, the club provided the fir...
Jun 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sixth grade members of the NSU Lab School orchestra are, on front row from left, Aill Harris, Ashtyn Brown, Daishya Vercher, Kayleigh Anderson and Aimsley Unbehagen, On middle row are Edouard Ferrell, Kevin Nutt, Anita Dolliole, Anna Robertson, Katie Cole, Matthew Roquemore, Hunter Coutee , and orchestra director Katrice LaCour. On back row are Bryce Moulton, Tayler Anderson, LaDiamond Burrell, Victoria Sturman, Dallys Below, Miracle Coutee, Elizabeth Devargas, Makenzie Morgan and Trevor Durbin.
Outstanding Musicians
The NSU Middle Lab School sixth grade and seventh//eighth grade orchestra conducted by Katrice LaCour participated in the Louisiana Music Educators Association State Assessment Festival held on the...
Jun 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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John “Rick” Miller
Prayer leader to speak here
John “Rick” Miller will speak in Natchitoches at Basilica of the Immaculate Conception at 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 21. Miller is in his 24th year of a public ministry within the Catholic Church. He is ...
Jun 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Derenzo Wesley Jefferson
Men arrested in shooting, home invasion
The Natchitoches Police Dept. received a call reporting a shooting at the Lakeview Apt. Complex Saturday about 9:30 p.m. Officers found Mychaa Milsap, 20, lying on the ground outside the apartments...
Jun 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Alcohol suspected in Cloutierville wreck
Troopers assigned to La. State Police Troop E responded to a single-vehicle wreck on Hwy. 1 in the community of Cloutierville June 17 at about 1 a.m. A 2001 Ford Explorer was northbound on Hwy. 1 ...
Jun 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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June is Cataract Awareness Month
Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness in the world, according to AmeriCare. This debilitating condition often limits independence, forcing people to rely on the assistance of a family caregi...
Jun 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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