Today the Lincoln Parish Police Jury will consider “rolling forward” the property taxes it levies, resulting in an increase of nearly $375,000 that it would collect from property owners around the parish this year.
With everyone abuzz about back to school, conventional thoughts turn to reading, writing and arithmetic. But for one community group, the emphasis is squarely on the top of that list — reading.
Louisiana Tech University announces the appointment of Heath Tims as the new chief executive officer of the Louisiana Tech University Alumni Association and associate vice president of the Division of University Engagement.
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, the Council for the Development of French Louisiana (CODOFIL) and a Louisiana delegation will join Acadian communities from around the world in southwest Nova Scotia to celebrate Acadian culture at the Acadian World Congress, or Congrès Mondial Acadien.
Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s deputies responded to a domestic violence situation on Oak Alley Drive Saturday morning and subsequently searched for and arrested a Ruston man for battery of a dating partner – strangulation.
The City of Ruston announced, weather permitting, that Franke Drive at the corner of McDonald Avenue and Jonesboro Street at the corner of MLK Drive will be closed to through traffic today from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.