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Nancy Bergeron, Add One

COVID’S climbing, we really should care

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There’s a good chance by this time next month, you’ll have to wear a mask if you go in Grambling’s City Hall.

For a moment, we drew strength from each other

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Twenty-two years ago this week, I was in a tiff with my bosses. I remember it well.

Reflections on a pair of bad girls

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At approximately 1 o’clock on the morning of Aug. 27, 2020, Hurricane Laura roared ashore in Cameron Parish as a Category 4 storm.

Money’s always the top legislative takeaway

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If it’s true that all politics is local, then the best politics is that which brings home money.

40 years later, LEPA’s time may have come

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More than 40 years after the late Mayor John Perritt wanted Ruston to become a member of the Louisiana Energy and Power Authority, the wheels are in motion to possibly make that happen.

Newbies’ choices will make all the difference

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Even as qualifying continues for the Oct. 14 primary election, it would appear the balance of power on the Lincoln Parish Police Jury has already shifted for the new term.

Old hospital deserves its place in history

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I was born in the old Ruston Hospital on South Vienna Street. I don’t remember it, but I know it’s so because that’s what Mama told me. Besides, the name of the hospital is printed atop the bill for my arrival and my mother’s threeday stay.

Election season: Veteran police jurors could be in for blustery ride

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With candidate qualifying for the Oct. 14 primary less than two weeks away, the question of the day is whether the Lincoln Parish Police Jury could be on the verge of its biggest turnover in 19 years.

Crucial issue in Greene case goes untouched

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Now that 3rd District Judge Thomas Rogers has quashed the indictments against two of the five law enforcement officers charged in the deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene, and may reduce the number of charges against the remaining three, the question becomes: What next?

Plant closure points to economic development need

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While it would have been neighborly if Ardagh Glass Packaging had given Lincoln Parish government and business leaders a heads up about the closure of its Simsboro plant next week, the company was under no obligation to do so.