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Most local farmers this year were hoping for the impossible, a “perfect” year. Due to market volatility with expected tariffs as well as high inputs, rent, and equipment costs, they needed the weather to do everything right. Even then, the best they could hope for was breaking even.

May - June 2025 THURSDAY 29 Wink Danenburg, juggler extraordinaire, at the library for youth Summer Reading Program • 10am FRIDAY 30 Chair exercise for adults • 10am • ECP Library Poetry in Motion • teen event for Summer Reading Program at the library • 2-4pm • call 559-2615 for info SATURDAY 31 SUNDAY 1 MONDAY 2 Chair exercise for adults • 10am • ECP Library TUESDAY 3 SNAP benefit signup 9:30am-3pm East Carroll Parish Community Action Agency EAST CARROLL PARISH SCHOOL BOARD 6:30 pm • in the Media R oom, Administration building WEDNESDAY 4 EAST CARROLL PARISH POLICE JURY COMMITTEES 10am • in the Police Jury Meeting Room Music Bingo for adults • part of Summer Reading Program at the library • 11am-1pm • call 559-2615 for info THURSDAY 5 DEPT OF PUBLIC SAFETY DRIVER’S LICENSE OFFICE 9am-3pm (lunch 12-1) East Carroll Parish Police J ury office building (old health unit) Dorian LaChance, magician and entertainer, at the library for youth Summer Reading Program • 10am.

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.

Both of the local elementary schools held their D.A.R.E. graduation programs Wednesday, May 14. Fifty- six Southside Elementary School students graduated from the D.A.R.E. program while 16 graduated from Briarfield Academy. “I have enjoyed teaching the students at these two schools this past year,” said Sgt. Samantha Grover, D.A.R.E. instructor for the East Carroll Parish Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Wydette Williams and other members of his department were on hand to assist in handing out diplomas to the graduates. The D.A.R.E. program is taught to students kindergarten through fifth grade and eighth-grade students. Graduates are fifth graders at each school. This year’s D.A.R.E. essay winner was Allison Webb of Briarfield Academy.

East Carroll Parish Sheriff’s Office: 5/20/25 – Charles Holden, 17, charged with principle to simple burglary, principle to theft of a motor vehicle, simple criminal damage to property. Bond set at $13,000.

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Sara Beth Howard of Lake Providence has been nominated for an award in the upcoming Northeast Louisiana Arts Council’s 40th annual Northeast Louisiana Arts Awards to be held on Thursday, June 12. Nominated artists, businesses, educators, and volunteers in the arts community are recognized during this program.

A group of young people that East Carroll Parish Sheriff’s officers call “Kia Boys” has struck again, according to investigators. Tystin White said that two of the three juveniles arrested last week and charged with theft and criminal damage of Kia automobiles in Madison and East Carroll Parishes followed a recent pattern of severely damaging two red Kias at the Foster Street Apartments in Lake Providence on May 18.

Two more students from General Trass High School have been awarded $250 scholarships in conjunction with Delta Bank's 365 to Rich Bank Shadow Day. Both Madison Martin (left) and Vernon Nichols Jr.

Have you ever heard of a Sneaker Ball? Me neither. At least, I hadn’t until this past week when I learned that it was a special occasion where you pair your favorite formal wear with your favorite tricked out sneakers and wear them to a celebration. Any celebration. I just know that it created some really cute, cute kids with some really cute, cute photos. So it was a win-win situation. Now we all know what a sneaker ball is and we get to see these cute little sweethearts.