If you get a speeding ticket in the mail from the Town of Richwood’s new automated ticket system, what should you do? Some have paid the $180 fines, but at least one man filed suit to challenge the legality of…
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Funeral services set for Willie Mae Lawrence
Funeral services for well known resident Willie Mae Lawrence will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Greater Antioch Baptist Church. Her official obituary reads as follows: Willie Mae, the second of seven children of the late John Myles…
Birthdays August 25th – August 31st
August 25-Melba Arnold Clay, Joe Nelson, Lauren Ballard, Sandra Clemons, Joe Brown, Yolanda Star, Louise Moore, Kenyotta Alexander, Sharonda Norman, Akeithyria Williams, Willie Hudson, Victoria Watson, Cynthia Moore, Patricia Hollins, Keyomie Scoby, Jacquelyn Simmons, Kathy Buie, Michael Etienne, Darren Amelin,…
Two whites running to represent new Black School Board District
The Black community may have missed its chance to have a second representative on the Ouachita Parish School Board, we dropped the ball, and now two white candidates are campaigning to represent a newly formed Black majority district …
Our Rich Black Heritage: Lydia Hamilton Smith
By Garry Blanson Lydia Hamilton was born at Russell Tavern in Adams County, Pennsylvania. She was the widow of a Gettysburg Negro barber named Jacob Smith, who died in 1852; by whom she had two children. Since she had an…
Monroe City Council: August 9, 2022 Minutes
City Hall, Monroe, Louisiana August 9, 2022 6:00p.m. There was a legal and regular session of the City Council of the City of Monroe, Louisiana held this date the Council’s regular meeting place, the Council Chamber, City Hall Building, Monroe,…
Death Notices for the week of August 22nd
Rosena Wade, 93 of Monroe, LA Homemaker died August 15, 2022. Service will be 11:00 AM Friday, August 26. 2022 at St. James Baptist Church Sterlington, LA. No Visitation. Burial will be in Richwood Gardens Richwood, LA under the direction…