The Chataignier Village Council at Monday’s meeting hired a new police officer on a probationary basis and approved the purchase of new tires for its police unit.
Fr. Mitch Guidry, pastor of Our Lady Queen of All Saints Catholic Church in Ville Platte, elevates the monstrance that contains the Blessed Sacrament during a Benediction that preceded the patronal mass of the parish Wednesday. (Gazette photo by Nicholas Jagneaux)
In 1954, Pope Pius XII instituted the feast of The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Ninety-two-year-old Ronald McCauley holds up a glass of water while sitting in his home on West Main Street in Ville Platte. He retired last month from the same Te-Mamou Water District that he helped create in the mid-1960s. He also served as the board’s secretary-treasurer for more than five decades. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)
Towering high over the area located between Ville Platte and Bayou Chicot is a water tower that serves the customers of the Te-Mamou Water System.
An Evangeline Parish grand jury issued two true bill of indictments after it assembled on Thursday to hear evidence presented by the Evangeline Parish District Attorney’s Office in two separate mat
Madison Harrington is pictured on the monitor while on set of an acting project.
Madison is pictured holding a clapboard while on set of her first movie Asylum.
Madison is pictured waiting on set for her turn in front of the cameras. (Photos courtesy of Jamie Harrington)
The lights shining bright on stage, the camera recording the next big hit, and the action of all the characters are ideas that seem foreign to most people here in Evangeline Parish, but nine-year-o
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