Garbage collection not affected by Mardi Gras
Avoyelles Parish residents are reminded that while schools and many other businesses will be closed for the Mardi Gras holiday this Tuesday, the garbage trucks will be making their regular rounds.<
Avoyelles Parish residents are reminded that while schools and many other businesses will be closed for the Mardi Gras holiday this Tuesday, the garbage trucks will be making their regular rounds.<
It’s always good to set a new record. If that record also results in replacing several aging timber bridges, so much the better.
NINE LIVES
These five small dogs (top cage) and four cats (bottom cage) were among the 30 animals removed by Humane Society workers and Avoyelles Sheriff’s deputies from a house on La. Hwy 3041 between Bunkie and Hessmer. The Humane Society wants strict penalties imposed on the owners, who were charged with 30 counts of cruelty to animals. {Humane Society of Louisiana photo}
A Bunkie area man and woman have been charged with 30 counts each of felony cruelty to animals following the Feb.
While some board members are saying one or more Avoyelles Parish schools may have to be closed a year or so from now, some are recommending a return to “community schools.”
Fynn’s Wish, an autism therapy center expected to open in Avoyelles Parish later this year, will hold a softball tournament and jambalaya cook-off fund-raiser at the Cottonport ballpark April 12-1