Girl Scout Cookie season is underway and once again the Ruston-Lincoln Chamber of Commerce stepped up to help support this group of burgeoning entrepreneurs. Girl Scout Troop 11 was invited to set up a booth inside the facility shared between the chamber and Ruston Lincoln Convention & Visitors Bureau to promote the 2024 cookie sales.
It was a quiet mid- August evening and Demi Cuccia, a cheerleader in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, was lost in the busy season of starting her junior year.
The City of Ruston has announced that City Hall and the Utility Billing Office will be closed on Monday in observance of Presidents’ Day. There will be no residential garbage and trash collection on Monday. Garbage pickup for Monday’s residential route will be picked up on Wednesday. Commercial garbage trucks will not run Monday either.
For the first time in more 30 years, the Louisiana Peach Festival will be a free event, with no admission charged for either daytime activities or the evening concert.
The Lincoln Parish Police Jury wants to wipe away the conflicts of the past and send a message to the city of Ruston and other local entities that it’s ready to play nice.
An Oak Grove man now faces a simple burglary charge for allegedly illegally entering a building on the Louisiana Tech University campus in July and attempting to steal a van.
