Ville Platte High staff member Jean Andrus (left) searches a student with a wand while girls’ basketball coach Dot Doulet (right) checks the student’s booksack Thursday morning in the lobby of the school’s gymnasium. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)
When students arrived at Ville Platte High School Thursday morning, they did so to a campus with an increased police presence and increased security measures as they entered the school through the
Coach Donald Frank is pictured here as he holds the plaque given to him by the Town of Mamou during his retirement celebration in October at the town’s skating rink after 41 years of working in the Evangeline Parish school system as an educator and coach. (Photo courtesy of Donald Frank)
Thinking he was walking into a wedding reception at the skating rink in Mamou back in October, a former parish educator and coach found himself immersed in a retirement party after 41 years of serv
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An Aryan Circle (AC) gang member has been sentenced to 130 months in prison for the role he played in a Turkey Creek murder that occurred in July of 2016.
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VIDRINE - Chris Guillory has announced that he will run for Evangeline Parish Tax Assessor. The election for Tax Assessor will be held in October 2019.
It was all about recognizing Evangeline Parish students, schools and personnel for a variety of different reasons at the Evangeline Parish School Board meeting Wednesday.
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Mamou point guard Mason Tinley (5) directs traffic while Basile High’s Isaiah Ceasar (20) looks to defend. Mamou defeated Basile 69-41 in the second game of the Battle of Basile Tournament held in Basile this week. (Gazette photo by Tracey Jagneaux)
BASILE -- The Battle in Basile hard court tournament got underway here Wednesday afternoon and features teams as far away Rapides and Beauregard parishes, as well as a handful of Evangeline Parish
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Thank you Devin White!
You have restored my faith in mankind!
Sacred Heart senior Cade Manuel (right) is shown with head coach Josh Harper (left) at the Superdome as he holds his certificate for making the Academic All-State Composite Team. (Photo courtesy of Laurie Manuel)
Sacred Heart student-athlete Cade Manuel was recently honored with a very prestigious award for his academic excellence.
The Ville Platte High boy’s and girl’s basketball teams have had very different seasons up to this point.
Mamou High forward Demarcus Wilson tries to get a basket under the rim against a Rapides High defensive player Monday night. Mamou slipped past the Mustangs for a 45-42 win. The Demons are now 5-8 on the season and were scheduled to play in the Basile Tournament which began yesterday. (Gazette photo by Tracey Jagneaux)
MAMOU – It was a split decision Monday night as the Mamou boys’ and girls’ teams took on Rapides High in a non-district affair.
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(Editor’s Note: The following information was obtained from the Evangeline Parish Clerk of Court’s Office in Ville Platte. This information is printed once a month in The Gazette.)
By TONY MARKS Associate Editor
Mamou First Grade French Immersion students- in no particular order: Easton Hayes Ardoin, London Elise Ardoin, Jessie-Lynn Faith Ashford, Braxton Aymond, Isabella Bree Bonnette, Julien Pierre Deshotel, Adam Mark Fontenot, Bryley Lynn Foreman, Nora Gotreaux, Christiny Nacolsha Hall, Joshua Jack, Adelyn Kate LeBouef, Niko Lopez, Aubrey Faith Manuel, Emma Catherine Miller, Denelle Amya Moreaux, Evelyn Rose Pitre, Molly Ann Ramsey, Heaven Raymond, Brooke Thomas, and Allen Williams. Also pictured in back Bill McBride.
With the Christmas season approaching, the Ville Platte Rotary Club learned about trucking from a son of one of its members and heard French Christmas carols from first grade students from Mamou an
By TONY MARKS Associate Editor
December 24, 1968- A UNITED STATES FLAG, which flew over the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., was presented to Sacred Heart High School of Ville Platte Wednesday by Congressman Edwin Edwards in ceremonies at the school. In the left photo, Monsignor Bourgeois accepts the flag from Edwards for and on behalf of the Sacred Heart students. Msgr. Bourgeois and Edwards stand with Michael Quinn (right photo), a 1966 graduate of Sacred Heart and a third-year student at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y. Home on Christmas leave, Quinn was Edwards’ first military academy appointment after he was elected to the unexpired term of the late T.A. Thompson and is the first military academy appointee from Ville Platte in 20 years. It was the first time Edwards and Quinn had met each other.
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By ALI MORAS Editorial Intern
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