Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website.

Letters to the Editor

Autrey touts Lincoln Parish Library tax renewal

If you have seen the yard signs around town or read the newspaper headlines recently and wondered what the sudden flurry of activity is about, the Lincoln Parish Library tax renewal vote is coming up on Dec. 5.

Ruston Pafford Ambulance responders thanked

On Aug. 27, the citizens of southwest Louisiana sustained a direct hit from the strongest hurricane to make Louisiana landfall in 150 years.

Shaw: School tax increase could hurt local sales

I am the co-owner of No. 9 Books and Records and the parent of a child attending a local public school.

Flournoy decries Biden’s climate change response

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden recently announced a $2 trillion plan to deal with climate change. He says the funds are needed to finance changes in our lives because of catastrophic climate change. He states these changes are needed because if we don’t our world will be uninhabitable in 12 short years.

Open letter to state leaders of Louisiana

Gov. John Bell Edwards

Reader feels COVID-19 has sent society out of balance

I am a labor and employment law attorney, living in Dubach. For the past six years, I have worshipped at The Bridge Church and taught at Louisiana Tech. The below thoughts are mine alone, of course.

Lane remembers Pinkie Wilkerson

It was in December, 1997, when the late Pinkie Carolyn Wilkerson, Louisiana State Representative serving District 11, called right after the midnight hour (her usual telephone conversation time) and asked me to serve as Executive Director of Community Coordinating Council, Inc., a nonprofit organized in July, 1997, to provide enriching and educational experiences.

Rabon questions impeachment outcome

I would like to thank our Louisiana senators, who by the actions have participated in placing this country into the potential possibility of becoming a dictatorship. If the president can declare himself innocent of charges and proceed to deny access to any documentations or testimony that may sustain or reject the tenets of the accusation, then that person is afraid of the revelations that may be revealed.

Allen asks for use of dumpsters to be halted

I read with interest the recent email to the editor from Sam H. Williams concerning the garbage dumpsters.

Resident concerned about dumpster safety

This letter is for each member of the Lincoln Parish Police Jury and the residents of Lincoln Parish. First, let me congratulate each new juror on their election and each incumbent on their reelection. I wish each of you a productive tenure.