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LAKE ARTHUR — After receiving several key shipments, work has finally begun on the $2 million waterline replacement project.

The Jeff Davis Parish Landfill Commission is facing a significant reduction in trash service revenue. Commission members answering to stakeholder governing bodies are proactively looking at options for managing the significant loss of cash flow.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. For decades, the government has advised that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth. The shots are widely considered to be a public health success for preventing thousands of illnesses. But U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s committee voted Friday to recommend the birth dose only for babies whose mothers test positive. For other babies, it will be up to the parents and their doctors to decide if a birth dose is appropriate.

WELSH — Town officials are busy preparing for the fifth annual Christmas event, which features a range of activities for the community to enjoy.

(The Center Square) — Legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools continue with a new brief filed this week, backed by 46 members of Congress.

The Jeff Davis Parish Ordinance Committee approved a rezoning request by T.O. Allen Estate for a large plot of land in West Lacassine. With police jury approval, the property represented by Gene and Gayle Godeaux would change from A1-agriculture to I1-light industrial with potential for manufacturing, processing or distribution centers or retail business.