U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields announced Tuesday that he will not seek re-election to Congress following a high-stakes legal and legislative redistricting battle that effectively dismantled his majority-Black seat. Rather than mounting a long-shot campaign in a newly reconfigured, heavily Republican…
Ernest Muhammad, a candidate for Monroe City Schools District 4, says he is concerned about the quality of education in the district. As a former elementary school teacher at Roy Neal Shelling Elementary, he said he is familiar with many…
Dramatic new details have emerged following the capture of three inmates who escaped from the Swanson Center for Youth on Saturday morning, leading Monroe Police officers to a vacant home where all three fugitives were apprehended—including two who attempted to…
Following the retirement of Roma Kidd, Stalanda Butcher has become the Executive Director of ARCO, A Community Resource, effective July 1. Butcher has over twenty years of experience in child advocacy, strategic planning, and partnership development in the nonprofit industry.…
Residents of Rayville who rent or lease are feeling uneasy because many now learning that relatively low rent they paid for some facilities is a thing of the past, since the Meta Data Center began construction. In the once sleepy…
Before there is dance, and big dreams of being a professional dancer, there is the first step which is fitness. Some of the students at Carolyn Danceland are learning the rudiments of fitness. What they learn at Carolyn’s Pecanland Mall…
Local businessman Rod Williams hosted a groundbreaking for the new Home Office for his company, Guidance for Behavioral Health. The North Monroe Facility, once constructed, will house two other companies he owns: First Choice Counseling and Guidance Personal Care. Rep.…
