The 2025 edition of Howdy Neighbor Day is set for Saturday, October 4, at the Jena Town Park.Organized by the Jena Colonial Trials, this annual event will feature fun, food and crafts with music all day with a great line up of live entertainment.This year, the featured artist will be Kendall Shaffer...

Louisiana Tech University has announced the names of students on its Summer Quarter 2025 president’s and dean’s honor lists. Students whose names are followed by an asterisk earned recognition as members of the president’s honor list. That distinction signifies achievement of at least a 3.8 academic...

We met September 9, 2025, at Nolley Methodist Church Palmer Hall. Present were: President Kelly Thompson, Barbara Murphy, Beth Zoller, Barbara Germany, Audrey Maxwell, Pam Davis, Nelda Tarver, Lisa McCann, Judy Baker, Renae Kelly, Martha Ann Wood, Donna Justiss and Cynthia Bradford.This was our firs...

New local owner has intentions to work with State A last-minute switch in the buyer of the Kitterlin Creek property in south LaSalle Parish could resu...

September 27 - October 4 Early voting for the October 11 election will begin this Saturday, September 27, and continue until the following Saturday, O...

Not expected to return to Jena Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University activist who was held at the Central Louisiana ICE Detention Center in J...