The Lincoln Parish Police Jury is looking into the possibility of a new “hybrid model” for trash collection that would see the parish’s dumpster sites consolidated into more upgraded “megasites,” in addition to a potential door-to-door pickup service for some areas near the city of Ruston.
A man arrested as a result of a weekend disturbance on the Grambling State University campus remains in the Lincoln Parish Detention Center on a list of charges including weapons violations, threatening a public official, and simple escape.
The Lincoln Parish Police Jury plans to move forward with a “pilot study” to test out the feasibility of painting stripes on chipsealed roads across the parish that are not currently striped.
The severe thunderstorm that rolled through Lincoln Parish Tuesday night downed several trees, like this one on Frazier Road north of Ruston, and caused spotty power outages but appears to have done no structural damage.
