Ruston’s newest residents should begin arriving this week, and while they won’t be greeted by a brass band or presented with ceremonial keys to the city, the fact that they’re on the way is a big deal.
We didn’t do much for New Year’s when I was kid. That was probably because my father liked all the flashy, noisy hullabaloo of the celebration, but my mother and I did not.
My grandmother’s quilting frames took up the entirety of the back bedroom. In fact, they were balanced on the bed steads, the dresser and anything else that would keep the rickety wooden frames relatively level.
Aside from the loss of life, perhaps the most tragic part about the recent shootings on Grambling State University’s campus was that nobody was surprised they happened.
