Ruston’s Board of Aldermen has voted to give approximately 12 acres at the old fairgrounds site on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive to the local housing authority for construction of the city’s first rent-to-own neighborhood.
Mary Katherine Moore Rocha Greenfield Hesson, former Ruston resident, died peacefully just before midnight on Sunday March 5, 2023, in a Houston-area hospital, at age 84, surrounded by her immediate family.