March 2023

Panthers come up short in state championship

LAKE CHARLES – Lincoln Prep’s season ends in heartbreak.

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Suspect arrested in fatal Greene Lane shooting

The Ruston man wanted in connection with the shooting death of a woman on Greene Lane has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

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Ruston Clubs Part II

The Pierian Club, organized in 1899 and celebrating its sixtieth anniversary this year (1959), stated as its aim “the promotion of social intercourse and broader sympathies, a higher intellectual growth and development, and improvement of the Chautauqua Grounds.”

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Dumb luck while on a fool’s errand

I’ve discovered a little jewel on one of our TV channels. The National Geographic network has been running a series entitled “The 80s Top Ten” with each episode focusing around one significant trend from the decade. It might be movies, toys, gadgets, watercooler moments — you name it. It’s been fun.

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Raquel Welch found personal peace in a church pew

The statuesque film legend didn’t call attention to herself as she shared a pew with other conservative Presbyterians in their small church not far from Hollywood.

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James Paul Turner

Funeral services for Mr. James Paul Turner, age 102, of Ruston, will be held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, March 14, 2023, at Wesley Chapel Methodist Church in Ruston with Rev. Dana Thrash officiating. Burial will follow in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery in Ruston under the direction of Owens Memorial Chapel Funeral Home of Ruston.

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William A. ‘Billy’ Gullatt

William A. “ Billy” Gullatt was born on August 30, 1930, to the late Jap Gullatt, Sr., and the late Carrie Jane Pesnell Gullatt. He was the seventh of eight children.