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This 2016 Heartland North Trail Ultra Lite travel trailer was reported stolen on April 4.

Trailer theft investigated in Acadia Parish

Thu, 04/22/2021 - 9:28am

CROWLEY — Detectives with the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office are investigating the theft of a 24-foot bumper-pull travel trailer from the 6000 block of Egan Highway, west of Crowley.
The incident occurred during the night of April 4.
Unknown suspects entered the property and gained access to the travel trailer. The trailer is described as a 2016 Heartland North Trail Ultra Lite. It is tan in color with black and maroon decals.
The value of this theft is approximately $18,000.

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Residents on islands in Abbeville don’t want to be incorporated

Wed, 04/21/2021 - 10:10am

The City of Abbeville is trying to incorporate four areas into the city and residents who live in those areas are not in favor of it.
Recently, the City of Abbeville approved creating a bill for the legislature in Baton Rouge to approve, and hopefully, the governor to sign. That bill is House Bill 334, and was submitted by Rep. Ryan Bourriaque.
These areas are called “Islands,” and there are four in the city. Two are near Terri’s Diesel, near Southern Oaks Country Club. Another one is next to RiverFront Restaurant, while the fourth one is on the south side of Abbeville.

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Photo by Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter
Student Hunter Lepretre of Gueydan, third from right, has been chosen for a research internship at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station. The paid internship was established by the Charles and Rose Broussard family. Shown with him are Alan Broussard, far right; Yvonne Broussard Simon, second from right; Richard Broussard, third from left; Hal Broussard, second from left and Kurt Guidry, director of the LSU AgCenter’s Southwest Region.

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Photo by Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter
Hunter Lepretre of Gueydan, the first student chosen for an LSU AgCenter internship with an endowment established by the Charles and Rose
Broussard Family.

Gueydan’s Hunter Lepretre, selected for Broussard research internship

Tue, 04/20/2021 - 9:38am

LAFAYETTE — Hunter Lepretre, a junior at McNeese State University, has been chosen as the first student selected for a research internship with the LSU AgCenter through an endowment established by the family of Charles and Rose Broussard.
Lepretre will begin the paid internship in May at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, working in the agronomy research project under Dustin Harrell, LSU AgCenter agronomist and resident coordinator of the Rice Research Station.

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