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Police jury gives green light for trash master plan

The Lincoln Parish Police Jury will have a comprehensive master plan in hand for improvements to parish trash services in about a year’s time.

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Grambling, GEDC reach settlement in notable lawsuit

Control of the Grambling Economic Development Corporation is now in the hands of the city of Grambling.

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Final Greene defendant enters no-contest plea

FARMERVILLE — The last law enforcement officer facing charges in the 2019 fatal arrest of motorist Ronald Greene has pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of simple battery.

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Lincoln Parish Museum celebrates five decades throughout this year

In 1975, Mary Olive Davis Green and Charlotte Davis Parrott saw possibility. You could say they saw something nobody else had seen before. They saw the future.

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Portion of Alabama Avenue closed to traffic today

The City of Ruston announced that West Alabama Avenue between North Trenton Street and North Vienna Street will be closed immediately to through traffic today from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Zeta Rho-ESA presents check to VFW

Tom Boniol, Senior Vice Commander of Ruston VFW Post 3615, accepts a $250 donation from Nancy Darland, philanthropic chair of the Zeta Rho chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha. The service group raised funds for a Hope for Heroes project through a Dairy Queen Blizzard Fundraiser. Other Zeta Rho-ESA members are (from left) Norlyn Hyde, Sallie Rose Hollis, Jennifer Patterson, Amy Ringheim, Beth Fife and Lester Fife. The VFW plans to use the funds to help with furnishings for their new building.

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SciTEC awarded grant for STEM competitions

The Science and Technology Education Center ( SciTEC) at Louisiana Tech University has been awarded an $11,450 grant to host the 2024-25 Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS).

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United Way of NELA announces dates for free tax preparation

MONROE — United Way of Northeast Louisiana announced this week that this year’s VITA Free Tax Preparation is happening Feb. 3-28. This service offers free, fast, and stressfree tax preparation for individuals and families with a household income of less than $67,000.