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In this month’s meeting of the East Carroll Parish Police Jury, the ways and means committee report was read by Randy Walters, committee chairman. The committee report called for the committee, consisting of Walters and Roger Clement, to review checks before they are signed and mailed out, with the exception of payroll. Both President Kendall Thompson and Vice-President Kofi Darden raised objections to that aspect of the report.

The Lake Providence Police Department had good news and bad news for the month of January. At a recent finance committee meeting of the Town of Lake Providence, Mayor Bobby Amacker told the members of the committee that the department had met its budgetary goals for the month of January.

Delta Interfaith leaders Wanda Manning and I, along with organizer, Nathanael Wills, took a two-day whirlwind trip last week to New York City for a conference on broadband, entitled, “Community Broadband as an Emerging Asset Class.”

Part 3 of 3 of a history of East Carroll Training School. In the later years, school buses were added to transport students from outlying areas of East Carroll Parish to the East Carroll Training School in Lake Providence.

Music and dance are not mere expressions of creativity in Black culture—they are the soulful expressions of our people’s journey through history, their resilience, and the undying hope that has carried us forward. These art forms serve as both a mirror reflecting the trials and triumphs of the African diaspora and a beacon guiding the path toward a future filled with promise and possibility. They are the essence of Black heritage, a vital link to the past, and a vibrant expression of cultural identity.

Outside Israel, visiting the villages around Caesarea Philippi, Jesus has asked his disciples who they believe him to be. Peter has identified him as the Messiah, the one expected to come at the end of the era.

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “ Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.” He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life?

Grant, O God, that the prayers we offer may be your channel for new and abundant life not only hoped for, but worked for, through faithful word and deed. Amen..

East Carroll celebrates Mardi Gras in its own way

The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) in East Carroll Parish will hold a special election for the FSA county committee. Nominations are being accepted now and must be returned to the East Carroll Parish FSA Office or postmarked by March 17.