When Postmaster Harry Monroe went to the depot Friday morning for the mail, he discovered the mail box had been broken into and all mail from No. 2, Eastbound morning train, had been stolen.
1,450 soldiers with a payroll around $5,000 per day will bivouac at the fair grounds in Jennings from August 5 to October 1, it was learned by the News today on the highest authority.
Fifty-one Union soldiers are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, many miles away from their native land…but in actuality, many may not be buried that far from their descendants.
BATON ROUGE — The LSU AgCenter has been awarded a total of $50,000 a year for three years from Nutrien, a Canadian fertilizer company with operations in Geismar. The donation will help fund educational initiatives for students in Iberville and Ascension parishes.
The Jennings Garden Club recently recognized gardens of the month for August. The business garden of the month is located at the Jeff Davis Parish School Board. The residential garden of the month went to Doug and Melanie Hoffpauir at 511 East Third Street.
Team Smoke, a local youth baseball team, is celebrating their recent trip to the World Series in Alabama. They made it to the championship game and were runners-up in the contest.
Education is too often treated as though one size fits all, but most of us know that’s not true. Different parents want different foundations and curriculums that best suit their own children, not someone else’s.
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana will accept President Donald Trump’s partial extension of federal unemployment aid amid the coronavirus pandemic, though without increasing the state’s payout to jobless workers, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday.
