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Jeff Davis Parish LSU AgCenter Assistant Extension Agent Kim Landry offers area gardeners tips on vegetable gardening as fall planting gets underway this month.

WELSH — The Welsh Board of Aldermen voted to apply to the State Bond Commission for a sales tax bond that will help fund a much-needed street project in the town.

ELTON — Lack of funding for the police department will leave Elton residents with only a police chief after being informed there was not enough money in the budget to pay officers through the end of the year.

The Jeff Davis Parish Zoning Commission recommended denying a rezoning classification request from A1 agricultural to C1 commercial after receiving public comments during a recent well-attended public hearing. The police jury conference room had standing room only as residents for and against rezoning of a 22.85 acre property located at 15022 Abell Rd. in Welsh was discussed.

A local man is petitioning the court for a reversal to have his driver’s license reinstated after it was suspended for his part in a fatal hit-and-run accident.

A local man petitioned the court Wednesday with a plea for a reduction in his sentence after Honorable Judge Steve Gunnell ordered him to serve over four decades in prison.

On-going projects made possible through various grants along with federal and state funding were highlighted recently by Jeff Davis Parish Administrator Ben Boudreaux. The parish is in serious need of new infrastructure to enable parish economic development, according to the administrator.

— Ten new laws championed by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill officially took effect on Friday, ushering in what Murrill described as a 'transformative' set of reforms aimed at public safety, criminal procedure, and fraud prevention.