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The NCLAC Gallery opens inaugural show ‘Flavors’

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The North Central Louisiana Arts Council is proud to announce the opening of The NCLAC Gallery, an online art gallery space for rotating solo and group exhibitions.

Woman wants to close open marriage

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DEAR HARRIETTE: My husband and I have become dysfunctional, and I don’t know how we can come back from it. We have been married for three years.

BIRTHDAYS

Today

T. Scott Boatright, 57

Sunday

Wyesau Peterson, 43

Antonio Wilson

Monday

Willie “Bo-Jack” Peterson, 72

DART set to face challenges new year brings

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It’s a new year, and we at DART are glad to turn the page of the calendar.

High schooler with vitiligo fears college

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DEAR HARRIETTE: I’m uncomfortable with how I look. I have vitiligo, which causes my skin to have patches of different shades all over my body. All through high school I was bullied for it, but I’m starting college this semester. I am hoping that college will be a new start for me to embrace how I look and make new friends. With our classes beginning online, I am yet again afraid that people will judge me by what they see on the screen before they get to know me. I don’t think I am going to make any friends and no one will like me. All I want to do now is to hide away. How can I get over my fear of not being accepted?

BIRTHDAYS

Friday

Looking at signs, types of dissociative disorders

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Editor’s Note: This column is dedicated to a cherished, active NAMI Ruston board member.

Seemingly perfect reader seeks motivation

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DEAR HARRIETTE: It’s a new year, and everyone has made New Year’s resolutions. I have challenged myself every new year, and I’ve changed my life dramatically. Now I’m kind of stuck on what’s next for me. I have transformed my body and nutrition, and I have my dream job, home and family.

BIRTHDAYS

Sunday

Bring Mardi Gras celebration home in 2021

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Mardi Gras in 2021 will look very different from past celebrations. Even though COVID-19 already started to spread around the world in February 2020, New Orleans, home to one of the most famous Mardi Gras festivals, carried on with its historic parade as the world was still learning about the virus and how it spread.