Rotary News

Rotary President Joe Sers introduced the Historic District Business Association Director Jill Leo at the September 26 Rotary luncheon. Leo described the Fall Events starting with the Car Show September 29-30 and ending with the 97th Annual Christmas Festival December 2.

National Recovery Month

National Recovery Month was celebrated last week at the Natchitoches Behavioral Health Center. This year’s theme was “Every Person, Every Family, Every Community” to emphasize recovery is possible for all. Local dignitaries in attendance were Mayor Ronnie Williams, Jr. and Sheriff Stuart Wright.

Supreme Court denies request to delay rollout of voting maps

The U.S. Supreme Court denied the Alabama Attorney General’s request Sept. 27 to delay the rollout of the state’s new court-ordered congressional map, which could have endangered its timely implementation for the 2024 elections.This is the latest development in the Allen v.

‘Irresistible temptation’ to compare the country to fall of Rome

No, we aren’t Rome An op-ed in The New York Times warns, as the headline puts it, that “America is an empire in decline,” and finds a precedent in imperial Rome.

The Simple Life

The first bit of proof that my grandfather and grandmother had control of how their day would go is the fact that they had no alarm clock.They didn’t need one.As the rooster crowed, my granny was already in the kitchen pouring her and my papa a second cup of coffee.