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East Carroll Parish Sheriff’s Office, arrests for the week of January 15, 2024: 1/11/24 - Maurice Willis, 32, was arrested and charged with disturbing the peace and resisting arrest by flight. He is being held at Riverbend Detention Center on a $1,500 bond.

East Carroll had a string of bad weather days beginning first thing Friday. An area south of town was under a tornado warning that morning, when Rosie Thompson woke up around 7 a.m. to the sound of strong winds. “I got dressed fast because you never know,” she said.

One in a series of reports on pandemic spending by local government agencies. The East Carroll Parish Police Jury received a little more than $1.33 million dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden in March 2021.

Kenneth Baker Sr. resigned last week as the director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness for East Carroll.

The Pride of East Carroll Parish Lodge No. 142 gives a monetary award to a student from the East Carroll Parish School System at the end of each nine-week grading period. The criteria for students to receive this award are: respect, kindness, and integrity to classmates and adults. Recipient for the first nine-week award is Curtis Turner Jr., a 5th grade student at Southside Elementary. He is the son of Erain Dupas and Curtis Turner Sr. He enjoys playing his PS4 and also plays the snare drums in the General Trass High School Marching Band. Curtis is a member of the St. Mary M. B. Church under the leadership of Pastor Michael Caldwell. Pictured are (from left) Muriel Williams, Southside principal; Turner Jr.; Robert Martin, district IV grand district deputy; Erain Dupas, Curtis’s parent; and Bro. Alfred Young, worshipful Master of Lodge No. 142.

East Carroll Parish Sheriff’s Office: 1/1/24 - Kaliyah Anderson, 25, was arrested and charged with unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling and simple battery. She was released on a recognizance bond.

A petition to stop the proposed legalization of black bear hunting in Louisiana has gathered more than 600 signatures in just a few days. Jeff Dorson, a New Orleans resident and executive director of the Humane Society of Louisiana, started the Change.org petition Dec.