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September 2022

BIRTHDAYS

September 3 Bishop Denise Anders-Modest September 13 Danielle Peterson White, 48 yrs.

Physical intimacy alters friendship dynamic

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DEAR HARRIETTE: I have been seeing someone casually for a few years. I stopped seeing him when I got into a serious relationship, but when that relationship ended, we began seeing each other casually again.

Bobby Glen Till

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Graveside services for Bobby Glen Till, 85, of Dubach, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 3, 2022, at Hamilton Cemetery, in Dubach, under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Homes of Ruston.

Jurors weigh in on negotiating with Ruston for ambulance service

More than half of Lincoln Parish’s police jurors say want to see the Ruston Fire Department back at the negotiating table for rural ambulance and rescue services.

Groundbreaking in Hodge

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Gov. John Bel Edwards joined WestRock Paper Mill executives as well as state, regional and local government and business leaders to announce the start of construction on a $97 million project to expand and modernize the facility in Hodge.

Turning the Tables

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Local business owner a beacon of determination, effort

Ruston native makes history as elected bishop

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Bishop Denise Anders- Modest was born in Lincoln Parish in 1961 and remained here until August of 1987.

Fantasy football and our datadriven world

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As we’ve been repeatedly pointing out at the Leader through various methods, football season is back.

Gallot appointed to governor’s cybersecurity commission

Grambling State President Rick Gallot was recently appointed to Gov. John Bel Edwards commission on cyber security.

Christopher ‘Chris’ Heard

Christopher Pryor “Chris” Heard, 68, died of cancer at Alive Hospice in Nashville on August 30, 2022. He was born April 29,1954 in Ruston, to Anne Baker Heard and the late George Taylor Heard. In addition to his mother, he leaves his wife of 26 years, Susan Herbers Heard; stepdaughter, Karen Clabough; sister, Paula Heard Pardue; brothers, Gary and Dennis Heard; and the large extended Herbers family he embraced as his own.