Thanksgiving is a time for thanking God for the many blessings of the past year and expressing the anticipation of blessings in the year to come.
Bishop Joe Simon -- a native of Simmesport, a Grammy Award-winning performer in the 1970s, and now a full-time Gospel minister -- sits in the Chicago-area studio of his Chicago Simmesport International (CSI) Records. Simon is moving the record company to Simmesport in the near future. The company and other community outreach programs will be housed in the Simmesport Community Complex in the former Dunbar High/Simmesport Elementary building being leased from the Avoyelles School Board by the Town of Simmesport. {Photo courtesy of Bishop Joe Simon}
Simmesport native Joe Simon -- a Grammy award winning singer who went from singing Soul to saving souls --is moving his record company from his current home of Chicago to his hometown of Simmespor
While the Avoyelles public schools still rank near the bottom fourth of public school districts, the school system was one of the top-10 in terms of improvement.
The Avoyelles Parish School has announced on Social Media on Friday, November 16, Chris Robinson will be the new School Board member of the District 6 seat, as the incumbent has withdrawn from the
There have been several “newsy” tidbits concerning the Avoyelles Parish public school system in the past week or so.