It’s hard to believe the holiday season is almost here. Many of us will soon be planning elaborate meals and celebrations with friends and family. What better way to take your holiday cooking up a notch and impress your guests than with homegrown herbs?
I’m beginning to think it isn’t just a coincidence that the end of early voting, Halloween, All Saints Day, and the 2024 presidential election all happen within days of each other.
Former Ruston Police Chief Randal Hermes reached his tipping point in the summer of 2003 after he stood at the gravesides of two young local men, one 16, and the other 21, killed less than a month apart in alcoholrelated traffic crashes.
An 18-year-old Ruston man has been charged with one count of felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile following an incident that reportedly happened Sunday night.
The Louisiana State Mesonet team was on site Tuesday at the Lincoln Parish Police Jury’s dirt pit on Big Creek Road in Dubach to erect the next weather data-collecting tower for the new statewide network. A project helmed by the University of Louisiana at Monroe, the Mesonet will collect a variety of weather data from 50 towers across the state. Live data for each site will be available to the public online.
Members of Mount Harmony Baptist Church in Ruston recently took their “Souls to the Polls” to encourage early voting and making early voting a family tradition. While early voting ended Tuesday, the deadline for the registrar of voters to receive a voter absentee ballot is Monday by 4:30 p.m. (other than military and overseas voters). The polls will open again on Election Day (Tuesday) from 6-8 p.m.
