LAKE ARTHUR – Homecoming has always been a Lake Arthur tradition that brings with it a welcoming warmth to all those who experience it. The town of Lake Arthur’s Homecoming is recognized mostly for its unity between past and present. This event continues each year to draw in alumni for a two day trip down memory lane and a celebration like no other.
Funeral services for John Raymond Myers, II, 44, of Lafayette will be held at Matthews and Son Funeral Home in Jennings today, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, at 11 a.m.
Funeral services for Mercedes S. “Mert” Turner will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020, at St. Paul Baptist Church of Jennings, with Pastor Pernell Trent and Rev. C. James Fontenot officiating.
LAKE ARTHUR - It’s with great sadness and heavy hearts that the family of Marida Broussard Mallett announces her passing from this life on Sept. 27, 2020, at the age of 88.
Should the Town of Welsh have labeled it’s now-cancelled homecoming parade as a “peaceful protest?” No. However, in a year that has stripped nearly every event from the public and stripped milestones and memories from students, it’s easy to understand why the “peaceful protest” label would be used.
With less than five weeks to go before Election Day, two top House Republicans — Jim Jordan, ranking GOP member on the Judiciary Committee, and James Comer, ranking Republican on the Oversight Committee — have released a report warning that widespread dysfunction with mail-in voting could “put at risk the integrity of the nation’s electoral process.”