When the parish wide Ambulance Service Committee meets Thursday afternoon, perhaps it will make official the decision it appeared poised to make last month: that the parish should stick with the Ruston Fire Department as its emergency medical services and rescue provider.
It took the Union-Lincoln Regional Water Supply Initiative board just nine minutes to do last week what it should have done at least three years ago: dissolve.
Despite everybody’s best intentions, the Union-Lincoln Regional Water Supply Initiative’s goal of building a pipeline from Lake D’Arbonne to Ruston was doomed from the start.
Ruston’s newest residents should begin arriving this week, and while they won’t be greeted by a brass band or presented with ceremonial keys to the city, the fact that they’re on the way is a big deal.
We didn’t do much for New Year’s when I was kid. That was probably because my father liked all the flashy, noisy hullabaloo of the celebration, but my mother and I did not.
