Funeral services for Mr. Charles Lee Bridges, Jr., age 75, of Bernice, will be held at 10 a.m., Thursday, May 11, 2023, at Shiloh Baptist Church with Bro. Scott Scalen officiating.
The Ruston High outdoor track and field season came to a close over the weekend with the girls and boys squads putting together top-20 team finishes at the LHSAA Class 5A state meet in Baton Rouge.
Above, Doris Williams-Smith pauses alongside her display of bookmarks made from her poetry Saturday at the Lincoln Parish Library during the Lincoln Literarium, an event created by library Director Jeremy Bolom to showcase authors’ works and to increase interaction. Right, Janis Pardue Hill reads a selection from “Telling His Story: POW #1000,” which recounts her father’s experience in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II.