JONESBORO — At its monthly meeting Monday, the Jackson Parish School Board unanimously approved a $25,027 payment to The Charlie Edwards Company, LLC to renew 12 months of access to data towers to operate bus radios.
Grapes are one of the oldest and most extensively cultivated food crops in the world. The earliest archaeological evidence of the domesticated grape comes from an area between the Black Sea and Iran.
Legendary Grambling baseball coach Wilbert Ellis (center) is right at home coaching up local youth at the game he loves. Coach Ellis held his annual baseball camp over the weekend at Frasier Park in Ruston. The camp was a rousing success after missing two years due to COVID.
You could almost hear the collective sigh of relief coming from Ruston Mayor Ronny Walker and the city’s four returning aldermen when, at the end of candidate qualifying for the Nov. 8 primary, they were once again all unopposed for the second consecutive election cycle.