Eight applicants are seeking the position of superintendent for Concordia Parish schools, it was announced at the April 8 meeting of the School Board.

Concordia Parish police jurors gave representatives of Waste Pro an earful Monday night over garbage collection and asked that work begin immediately to upgrade the process.

There will be no pay raises for Vidalia aldermen after three said they were satisfied with what they currently earned.

The Ferriday Board of Alderman put a USDA grant on hold after taking exception to bids for kitchen equipment not being opened in the presence of the board.

The name Matthew was too formal for Matt Alexander’s casual nature and blue-collar work ethic, two traits that fit perfectly for the mayor of St. Joseph.

Local dilapidated properties and municipalities could benefit from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) brownfield land program, according to Cliff Palmer, executive director of Louisiana Municipal Advisory and Technical Services Bureau (LaMATS).

Highway work is slated in Concordia Parish while the state continues the massive job of limb and debris pickup following winter ice storms in February.

JOSEPH, La. — The soil that supports crops and lies beneath our feet was the main topic of a soil health forum held at the LSU AgCenter Northeast Research Station March 17.

The Ferriday Police Department is partnering with Ferriday High School on an outreach program entitled “Our Youth Building Tomorrow.”

Fifth District Levee Board Superintendent Jason Trichell said this week that routine work of installing relief wells and monitoring sand boils is presently underway, work that is usually associated with a higher river stage.

Religious people, who claim to be Christians, acknowledge the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15: 1-4). Just about any of them could tell a short version of that important incident. But what does that event really mean for people of today?

Julia Letlow garnered 65% of the vote in the 24-parish Fifth District on Saturday to win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Trinity Medical Center held its first board meeting at the new hospital Tuesday and welcomed a new board member and reviewed its latest audit.

Vidalia is continuing to pickup debris left over from two winter storms and contactors are being sought to help with the work.

Five companies have submitted quotes to the Concordia Parish Police Jury for the pickup of up limbs and debris, the result of two winter storms that passed through Concordia Parish in February.

Voters on Saturday will choose a U.S. Representative for the 5th Congressional District seat vacated after the death of Luke Letlow.

Clayton has been placed on the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s (LLA) list of Fiscally Distressed Municipalities.

Newly-named Ferriday Police Chief Herman Curry is spending this week at a Crisis Intervention Team seminar, and will be sending dispatchers to a seminar next week.

Work continues on construction of a student parking lot at Concordia Parish Academy and a new gym at Monterey High, according to Concordia Parish School Board Director of Business Affairs Tom O’Neal.

Expenses from two winter storms that moved through the state in February have thus far cost the Town of Vidalia $370,000, Mayor Buz Craft told aldermen Tuesday night.

Early votes for the March 20 congressional election totaled 154 votes through early Wednesday, according to Registrar of Voters Golda Ensminger.

Herman Curry pledged to build public confidence in the Ferriday Police Department after the town council unanimously appointed him police chief Tuesday night.

Ground should be broken for Ridgecrest’s water project in approximately two months, Mayor Veller Ray Carroll said during the village’s regular Town Council meeting Tuesday.

The Concordia Parish Police Jury estimates that more than 300,000 cubic yards of vegetative debris alone will have to be picked up in the days ahead following two winter storms in February.

Two state lawmakers are researching and drafting legislation for the upcoming legislative session set to convene April 12.

A community-wide cleanup day has been scheduled for March 13 in Clayton.

Sunrise Behavior Center became sole owner of the former Riverland Medical Center hospital building Thursday and CEO Paul Coburn said $4 million renovation work should be completed by July 1 for the company’s opening.

Concordia Fire District No. 2 and Ferriday Fire Department responded to eight house fires over the last six days.

A Ferriday man was arrested on Monday after threatening utility workers with a shotgun.

Two winter storms hammered Concordia Parish last week, while the second, which hit Feb. 17, caused widespread power outages as temperatures plummeted and roads iced over.