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November 2022

HOOPS ROUNDUP

Ruston overcomes Airline 65-50 in Class 5A battle

Traditions, rituals, superstitions spice up hunting

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If you’re a bass fisherman, don’t you dare catch a fish on your first cast. Tradition has it that you’ll have lousy success the rest of the day. That’s why I usually flip my first cast out near the boat where no bass could possibly be lurking and retrieve i t quickly before a fish finds it.

Anne Goyne Mitchell Calhoun

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Anne Goyne Mitchell Calhoun, 98, died peacefully at home on November 13, 2022, surrounded by her family and loving caregivers.

Geraldine Ridge Bagwell

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Geraldine Ridge Bagwell, age 80, peacefully passed away on November 4, 2022, in Shreveport, following a brief illness.

Tryptophan and football: what a combination

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Happy Tryptophan Week! What a time to be alive.

More Paramedics

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RFD continues top-flight cross training for firefighters

Ruston’s Robbins to present book reading on Nov. 26

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Just in time for the holidays, Ruston’s own Kenneth Robbins, Professor Emeritus of Liberal Arts at Louisiana Tech, will present a reading and book signing of his latest collection of Christmas stories, “ Christmas Brittle: Seasonal Fiction,” at No. 9 Books and Records on Nov. 26 from noon until 2 p. m.

Online sales tax collections on the rise

Local governments in Lincoln Parish collected more sales taxes from online transactions in September than they ever have before.

Fight over ride to work ends in arrests for local men

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A 19-year-old Ruston man is charged with inciting a riot, and two other local men face weapons violations as a result of a fight that apparently began over a ride to work.