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Nancy Bergeron, Add One

It’s your happy day, so stop laughing

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Today is your happy day. Stop laughing, it’s for real. Today is your happy day, courtesy of the National Weather Service, FEMA and the National Weather Association Social Media Committee.

Aldermen to meet via Facebook

Ruston’s Board of Aldermen will hold its regularly scheduled April meeting Monday evening via Facebook Live.

The meeting convenes at 5:30 p.m. The city’s Facebook page can be found at facebook.com/cityofruston.

The public will still be able to participate in Monday’s board meeting. The agenda is posted on the city website, ruston.org. Public comments on agenda items may be made prior to the meeting by emailing them to astegall@ruston.org, or during the meeting by posting a comment in the comment section of the livestream.

From a seed, an interchange has grown

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If everything stays on target, come Friday the Interstate-20 service roads between the new Tarbutton Road interchange and the Cooktown Road interchange will convert to one-way, just like the frontage roads between the Trenton Street bridge and Farmerville Highway.

If you see me saving rubber bands …

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My grandmother never met a butter box, Cool Whip container, twist tie, rubber band or Styrofoam meat tray that she didn’t hold dear to her heart.

`God has not given us a spirit of fear’

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I want my mama.

Church security comes with liability

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The church my mother and I attended when I was growing up never locked its front doors. Now it has an armed security team.

Water Initiative may help Sparta, after all

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It’s been a long time coming, but finally the Union Lincoln Regional Water Supply Initiative has done something tangible that could end up helping the longsuffering Sparta Aquifer: It gave its money to the Sparta Ground Water Commission.

Despite the unknown, Ruston will survive

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At this writing, on a sunny Tuesday morning, nobody knows whether the hype — and, for some people, fury — over an HBO drag show series filming an episode in Ruston will be tolerable or terrible.

State’s presidential primary on the way

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Not happy with the outcome of the Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primary? Well, just hang on, Louisiana’s turn at the pre-presidential election madness is coming.

Odds don’t favor end of partisanship

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Louisiana’s Legislature has become so politically polarized over the last three years that lawmakers have lost sight of the people they represent.