The year 2020 is now almost over and in the rear-view mirror. What a year it was — nothing I have ever experienced and hope our great nation, nor our beautiful planet, ever has to endure again.
The late 5th District Congressman-elect Luke Letlow is being remembered locally today as a committed public servant who loved Ruston and Lincoln Parish.
Editor’s note: The following is Part 2 of a year-end review of the Daily Leader’s Top 10 Stories of 2020. Part 1 ran Wednesday and Part 3 is also part of today’s newspaper.
In a time of many changes for the Lincoln Parish Police Jury, 2020 was a year in which “every month something new pops up,” as one juror described it at a recent meeting.
Louisiana’s Board of Commerce and Industry recently rejected an appeal by chicken company House of Raeford Farms that would have overturned a Lincoln Parish School Board decision earlier this year to deny the company millions of dollars of tax breaks on its new feed mill.