September 2019

LSU Reveals 2020 Baseball Schedule

BATON ROUGE – LSU on Tuesday released its 2020 baseball schedule, which features 37 home games and 27 games against teams that participated in the 2019 NCAA Tournament.

The 2020 season opens at Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field on February 14 when the Tigers face Indiana – a 2019 NCAA Regional finalist – in Game 1 of a three-game series. Along with the 37 regularlyscheduled home games, Alex Box Stadium will also play host to the annual Wally Pontiff Jr. Foundation Classic on March 24 versus Tulane.

INBOUND

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The City of Jennings will soon host the annual Stearman and Taildragger Fly-In once again. Aircraft are set to arrive at the Jennings Airport during the first week of October.

The event will begin on Friday, Oct. 4 and the public viewing day will be held from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5.

Plane enthusiast Bill Ross said organizers have set a goal to have 35 Stearmans in attendance for this year’s fly-in, weather permitting. Other antique planes are welcome. Crowds may see as many as 75-100 planes during the event.

DOTD to install four-way stop

ELTON - Work has begun on a project by the state to enhance safety at an Elton intersection that is known for having numerous accidents.

Town officials have been working with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) to implement a solution at the intersection of U.S. 190 and La. 26 that has seen a number of deadly accidents over the last decade with many say that number is increasing.

Amazing facts about honey

Honey is perhaps best known for its sweet taste. But beneath that sweetness is a complex, healthy food.

Bees produce honey from the pollen of plants through a complex enzymatic process, turning it into the beloved golden nectar.

Many properties make honey a unique food that is not just tasty, but also quite healthy. Here are some facts about honey that might get you buzzing:

FAMILY MEALS MATTER

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(Family Features) For busy families, finding time to eat together isn’t always easy, but coming together around the dinner table regularly isn’t just about keeping hungry bellies full. Family meals nourish the spirit, brain and overall health.

‘Owning the libs’ is the whole pointless point

One reason I failed to see Donald Trump coming is that I never saw even a single episode of “The Apprentice.” Indeed, I’d be hard put to name a single “reality TV” program I’ve watched from beginning to end. The hallmark of the genre, of course, being its sheer artificiality.

For entertainment, I mainly watch ball games.

So everything I knew about Trump came from the New York tabloids: He was a vainglorious blowhard with more garish taste than Liberace. A publicity hound who’d inherited a whole lot of money; a playboy and an epic fabulator.

Hold your applause, Congress is back

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In case you haven’t heard, our lawmakers have returned from their six-week, summer sabbatical, ready to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty. Among the agenda items for this legislative session: firearms, keeping the government from shutting down, trade and, at least for some Democrats, impeaching the president.

Tasteless statements cause irreversible damage

It should really go without saying: Parents need to detail the consequences minors face for not only what they post online, but what they say in real life, too.

In nearby Moss Bluff, three young teenagers have been arrested in separate cases for allegedly making threats against their schools.

Facebook still auto-generating Islamic State, al-Qaida pages

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the face of criticism that Facebook is not doing enough to combat extremist messaging, the company likes to say that its automated systems remove the vast majority of prohibited content glorifying the Islamic State group and al-Qaida before it’s reported.

But a whistleblower’s complaint shows that Facebook itself has inadvertently provided the two extremist groups with a networking and recruitment tool by producing dozens of pages in their names.

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