Wes Mouk (right), with the Louisiana Associated General Contractors, presented a $5,000 check to Madison Coats, secretary of the Louisiana Tech AGC, to assist students in attending the AGC of America Convention in Orlando in September.
Today Louisiana’s top school board is scheduled to debate whether or not it will push back against Gov. John Bel Edwards’ mask mandate and allow individual school districts to set their own COVID-19 mitigation policies.
Ruston’s Board of Aldermen on Thursday is scheduled to decide whether a local developer gets his wish to have property on College Hill Drive rezoned for an apartment complex.
The Town of Dubach stands to get $335,456 in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding, but officials said Monday they have not yet received the first installment and are still working on a plan for how to use the money.
From left, Ruston Alderwoman Carolyn Cage, Kay Walker and Mayor Ronny Walker attend the swearing in ceremony last Friday for new 3rd Judicial District Court Judge Monique Clement.
For many high school students, summer is a time for family trips, extra sleep, and driving class, but six Lincoln Parish students engaged in research with professors in biomedical and chemical engineering as a part of the Research and Engineering Apprenticeship Program (REAP) at Louisiana Tech University.
The city of Ruston’s proposed budget for the spending year that begins Oct.1 shows an almost $25 million increase in revenue over the current year. But it isn’t primarily locally generated funds making the budget look flush.