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With five ranked teams losing to unranked teams last week, predicting a winner didn’t work well if you just picked the favored team. Average score for the week was probably around 13 but two contestants managed to get 17 correct.

A poster creation contest with the theme 'Christmas in Lake Providence' starts this week at East Carroll Parish schools. Sponsored by community art group Art for All Lake Providence, the contest starts today. Posters must be completed in school by November 21. Christmas.

Editors note: The election is really overshadowing this session, but we heard from someone at AARP concerned about the income tax issue, hence this story. The session could also affect some other funding things, like teacher salaries and homestead exemption.

It was a busy, busy week last week for General Trass High School. Organizers had their hands full all week with numerous events. On Wednesday afternoon, October 30, the high school held its annual trunk or treat in the school parking lot. It was coordinated by Umiki Hawkins, the PBIS/PTA facilitator at the high school. General Trass wants to thank everyone who donated to this cause.

Employees of the East Carroll Parish Hospital and its clinics saw an increase in their paychecks this week, according to LaDonna Englerth, hospital administrator. The hospital board of directors voted unanimously at its regular meeting last Tuesday, October 29, to authorize Englerth to research the amount that other area hospitals and clinics pay their employees and to adjust the pay of East Carroll hospital employees to match.

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BOI…have you heard of it? Maybe not, unless you have overheard one of the many conversations I have had discussing this new business entity reporting requirement, Beneficial Ownership Interest (“BOI”).

SNAP benefit signup every Tuesday @ 9:30am-3pm East Carroll Parish Community Action Agency EAST CARROLL PARISH SCHOOL BOARD 1st Tuesday of month @ 6:30 pm • in the Media R oom, Administration building DEPT OF PUBLIC SAFETY DRIVER’S LICENSE OFFICE 1st Thursday of month from 9am-3 pm (lunch 12-1) East Carroll Parish Police Jury office building (old health unit) EAST CARROLL PARISH POLICE JURY 2nd Tuesday of month @ 12 noon • in the Police Jury Meeting Room EAST CARROLL HOUSING AUTHORITY BOARD 2nd Wednesday of month @ 10am • at Housing Authority, Mike Ave. LAKE PROVIDENCE HOUSING AUTHORITY 3rd Thursday of month @ 12 noon LPHA office, Foster St.

Arrests as of October 28, 2024: East Carroll Parish Sheriff’s Office: 10/25 – Jaylen McNeil, 23, Aggravated Second Degree Battery 10/25 – DarKendrus Lanaute, 21, Aggravated Second Degree Battery 10/25 – Dontrail Williams, 22, Aggravated Second Degree Battery 10/25 – Patrick Ownes, 24, Aggravated Second Degree Battery. (All above are Riverbend inmates; no bond on any of them) Lake Providence Police Department No arrests..

The first bale of cotton ginned in 2024 belonged to Charles III and Bobbie Vining of Sondheimer. The bale of cotton, weighing 498 pounds, was ginned by Joe’s Bayou Gin on Highway 134 in Lake Providence.