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Ruston unveils new logo design (story preview)

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All it took was a simple slice of a serif here and a serif there, and it’s done.
The new Ruston High School logo has been unveiled, six months after Learfield Sports, a Texas-based marketing company that manages the Rutgers University brand, asked RHS to stop using the current logo.

Tech soccer to kick off season at SLU

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Louisiana Tech Soccer will kick off the 16th year of the program in Hammond at 7 p.m. today in an instate matchup at Southeastern Louisiana at Strawberry Stadium in Hammond.

It will be the start of a challenging stretch for Tech as the Lady Techsters open the 2019 season playing seven straight road games during a 10-pay period.

Betty Lou Williams Hawthorne

Betty Lou Williams Hawthorne, of Grambling, LA, was born May 10, 1930, and died Aug.14, 2019, in Memphis, TN. Visitation will be held from 10 - 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, at New Rocky Valley Baptist Church, with funeral services beginning at 11 a.m. at the church, located at 2155 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave, Grambling, LA. Interment will follow at Grambling Memorial Garden. Final arrangements entrusted to King’s Funeral Home, 1511 W. California Ave., Ruston, LA.

Shelton Jerome “Goldie” Goldsmith

Shelton Jerome “Goldie” Goldsmith was born Aug. 20, 1956, and died Aug. 16, 2019. Visitation will be held from 2 - 5 p.m. Friday at King’s Funeral Home in Ruston. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday Aug. 24, 2019, in the B.E. King Chapel of King’s Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Liberty Hill Cemetery. Final arrangements are entrusted to King’s Funeral Home, 1511 W. California Ave., Ruston, LA.

Library mulls return of ‘Bookmobile’

The Lincoln Parish Library Board of Control has begun looking into the possibility of bringing back its former “Bookmobile” service in some form.

Many years ago, when the library was at its former location on Alabama Avenue, a vehicle stocked with library books would make regular trips to Lincoln Parish neighborhoods beyond Ruston.

At a Lincoln Parish Police Jury public hearing regarding the library’s property tax millage last week, former parish administrator Richard Durrett said the Bookmobile program was discontinued because it was “outrageously expensive.”

Spreading the word

John Lauck hopes his church never needs to apply for federal disaster assistance, but he’s going to start getting things ready just in case.

Lauck, a deacon at Ruston’s John Knox Presbyterian Church, was one of about 20 participants in Wednesday’s workshop on changes in Federal Emergency Management Agency rules that now allow houses of worship and other private nonprofit groups to seek FEMA assistance if a disaster is declared in their area.

Louisiana Tech holds Summer Commencement

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Pictured above, Louisiana Tech Associate Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Technology Norman D. Pumphrey, Jr. served as keynote speaker Thursday morning as the university held its summer commencement exercise at the Thomas Assembly Center. Pictured below, the university presented 257 diplomas to 255 graduates during the commencement.

Investigation leads to ‘cold case’ arrest

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Lari Talbert remembers her younger sister Cheryl Williams as caring, happy-go-lucky and full of life.

“She loved people,” Talbert said Thursday. “She was the life of the party. She kept people laughing.”

Williams, then 37, disappeared on July 20, 2004. After 15 years of working the case, Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday arrested the man they now believe killed her.

Lonnie Frazier, Jr., 70, of Ruston, remains in the Lincoln Parish Detention Center charged with second-degree murder. Frazier is being held on $1 million bond.

Discover unusual woodland flowers

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LSU Agcenter

As the end of summer approaches, most of our garden flowers are beginning to fade. They have endured everything from hot, dry conditions; downpours of rain; and a brush with a hurricane and a tornado!

Pay attention to the everyday celebrities

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The grain of salt

I’ve had two celebrity encounters in my life thus far. The first was at the airport in Los Angeles when I was around eight years old.

A while before that, my family of diehard Chicago Cubs fans took a trip to Cincinnati to see our Ohio-based cousins and watch the Cubs play the Reds.

I knew just enough about baseball at the time to recognize Sammy Sosa from the stands and cheer on his mighty swings, and not much more than that. I had no care for the Reds, but somehow I went home with a Reds cap on my head.