For over a year a group of teenagers has been assembling on the weekends to what has become a skateboard park on an abandoned lot at 10th and DeSiard. The youth have built a series of ramps and curved walls…
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Services set for Monday for Mansfield, 57
Funeral services for a well known community friend known as “Book” will be held Monday. Funeral services for Kenneth Dewayne “Book” Mansfield will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at the Greater Free Gift Baptist Church. Services are being handled…
Obituary for Willie Tyler
Willie Tyler was a brother, father, husband, grandpa, uncle and friend. He was born, November 28, 1960 to the late Virgie Lee Tyler Wiley. Willie departed his life December 18, 2021. Willie is prededed in death by his mother Virgie…
Birthdays December 23rd – January 12, 2022
December 23-Derrick Lawrence, Beatrice Sheppard, Toria Adams, Sarah Henry, In Loving Memory of Ruby Holmes, Juanita Dunn, In Loving Memory of Fannie Taylor, Mmuda Tfabiyi, J’marcos Kage, Leonard ‘Sunny Boy’ Wade, Isaiah Bryan, Justo Ricks. December 24-Ingrid Larkin, Janice McGee,…
Even if you know the truth, Santa is fun
By Valaysia Smith Teen Reporter We all believed in Santa at some point, until we didn’t. The times when we really thought there was a man squeezing himself down our chimneys with magic just to leave us presents and eat…
Two Black Chambers, neither should be funded by the City of Monroe
There are 517 known African-American-owned businesses in Monroe, and two organizations that represent them, neither should be funded by the City. Last week members of the Monroe Regional Black Chamber of Commerce made a news splash at the…
Monroe City Council Minutes: November 23, 2021 Minutes
Monroe City Council Legal and Regular Session November 23, 2021 6:00 p.m. City Council Chambers-City Hall MINUTES There was a legal and regular session of the City Council of the City of Monroe, Louisiana held this date, November 23, 2021,…