Digital Newspapers Provided to School Employees After a very successful inaugural year of the LaSalle Parish Partnership in Education, the Newspaper in Education (NIE) program will once again occur for the 2025-2026 school year. This three-way partnership between Homeland Bank, the LaSalle Parish Sc...

With school set to begin next week, children of all ages are enjoying their final days of summer with many spending them wet amid extremely high temperatures. From residents’ swimming pools to public pools, from various creek swimming holes to the Jena Splash Pad, the cool waters found throughout th...

Students in LaSalle Parish will report for the start of the 2025-2026 school year Wednesday, August 6. School system employees, including all educators, will begin their new year three days earlier, with various meetings and training events set for Friday, August 1, Monday, August 4 and Tuesday, Aug...

Adopts resolution for Sales Along 84 event The Jena Town Council unanimously adopted a resolution in support of the September tri-state event Sales Al...

Readvertises for bids to demo two buildings The Jena Town Council voted to readvertise for bids for the demolition of two buildings after it was deter...

“I’m proud of the fact that you can drive 100 miles in any direction from here and not find a school system that outperformed us,” LaSalle Parish Scho...