From the days of my youth, I recall with great fondness the presidency of President Ronald Reagan. Full disclosure—my brother Tom was working on the White House Staff at the time, and I was attending The Heights Preparatory School in Potomac, Maryland. So, on the weekends, I rode the Metro down to D...

During the decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s, LaSalle Parish’s economy was driven mainly by two industries: oil and timber. Timber was the first industry to literally build LaSalle Parish and when the oil boom occurred in the 1930’s, it became just as much a staple industry as timber, if not more.For ...

Pa Golden wasn’t my grandpa by blood, but he was my grandpa, nonetheless. Hard working, slow to speak and wearing thick lensed glasses that had thin metal wire ‘inserts’ to keep his eyelids raised so he could see. He was family – throughout my childhood – until he passed. He had no children or grand...

Starting next Wednesday, some 410 employees of the La Salle Parish School System will receive free digital subscriptions to this newspaper for the 202...

Life consists of daily habits and behaviors that you and I practice routinely. In fact, whatever we do in normal routine life is what we will do durin...

September is Attendance Awareness Month, everybody. So, what better time to talk about our own attendance and the importance of showing up in everythi...