Nancy Bergeron, Add One

Don’t knock childless cat people

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance pegged me to the proverbial T. I am a childless cat lady.

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Can we change sad to double-good glad?

Sometimes glad things follow sad things. That’s the way it’s been lately for the city of Ruston.

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I hope I know when to say when

Like everybody else, I was tired of the debate about whether President Biden is too old to be president, or Donald Trump either, for that matter.

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Once the trigger’s pulled, the deed is done

In the space of 72 hours, Grambling city police made eight firearm-related arrests in three unrelated incidents.

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Journey’s easier when somebody has your back

At age 23, Rixie Thompson had it made.

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Forget work, I'm catching fireflies

I saw a firefly the other night. Then another and another and another until the air above the side yard flickered with tiny yellow and green pinpricks of moving light.

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Flag Day and Juneteenth: Back-to-back stories of perseverance

I learned about Flag Day in Vacation Bible School. Not that there’s any natural union between the two; it’s just that Flag Day always seemed to fall during Bible School week.

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New fire station is a gift to the city

One of my earliest memories is lining up single file and walking from our kindergarten room at the former First Presbyterian Church on Bonner Street to the fire station on the next block.