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Enrollment at East Carroll’s public schools is down by 42 students as the new school year gets underway. The numbers were provided by Superintendent Meagan Brown at last week’s regular school board meeting.

Hope all of you are enjoying the slightly cooler weather in September!! We are so thankful for relief from the heat. Christmas is right around the corner! I would like to thank all of you in advance, for whatever help you can give the Christmas Elderly 2024 Project.

Celebrate Library Card Sign-up Month this September with the East Carroll Parish Library! We're inviting everyone to discover the incredible resources and opportunities available at your local library by signing up for a library card.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Andreanna Thompson, a native of Lake Providence, Louisiana, serves aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan. Equipped with a full flight deck and more than 60 aircraft, including attack fighter jets and helicopters, aircraft carriers are one of the largest warships in the world.

Approval was given last week for a school-based health center to serve East Carroll public school students. By virtue of its status as a look-alike federally qualified health center, the Family Medical Clinic could sponsor the SBHC and provide medical and behavioral services to students whose parents give consent, Jennifer Newton, executive director of the Family Medical Clinic, told the school board at its meeting last week.

An arrest has been made in the homicide last week at the Riverbend Detention Center. Hector Barabo, 22, has been charged with possession of contraband and second degree murder. According to a Louisiana State Police spokesman, two inmates – Barabo and the victim – were fighting in the dorm when the homicide occurred.

The sanitation department of East Carroll Parish Police Jury is plagued by broken down equipment, pushing the garbage pickup last week back two days with Monday’s Labor Day holiday. President of the sanitation committee, Juror Kofi Darden, said that sanitation workers would likely need overtime pay to catch up on pickups. Fred Threats, sanitation manager, said they were doing all they could to get trucks up and running and finish the job. Broken-down equipment is plaguing the jury as a whole. A front end loader, haul truck, chip spreader, trackhoe, backhoe, two grass cutters, and garbage trucks – all mentioned in the meeting as “down.” Roger Clement, roads and drainage committee chairman, said equipment down time is mostly a result of glitches in the new technology and electronics in the machines, rather than their age.