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Jun 22, 2008 | News-Star

New 'The Q' is home, sweet home

A couple of months ago, while enjoying a steak at Moon's Cafe near Homer, I heard a familiar voice on the 70-year-old restaurant's official country music radio station.

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Sun Apr 06, 2008

Claiborne's all-black school targeted for closure

“We do have a plan in motion. I can't say what it is yet”

LISBON - Many parents of Pineview High students believe for too long their children at the all-black school for prekindergarteners through 12th-graders have been treated like stepchildren. via The Shreveport Times

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Related Topix: Haynesville, LA, Lisbon, LA, Claiborne, LA, Homer, LA

Mon Mar 17, 2008

The Shreveport Times

Regional Briefs: Weekly cooking classes expanded to Mondays

NATCHITOCHES - Bon appetite with friends every week at the Natchitoches Events Center this April with cooking classes under the instruction of Chef Ben Fidelak, owner of Maison Louisiane Catering. via The Shreveport Times

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Related Topix: Natchitoches, LA, Cotton Valley, LA, Doyline, LA

Sat Mar 15, 2008

KTBS-TV Shreveport

No major damage reported during severe weather

“We experienced high winds and I just came in the house and it's been 30 minutes or so when it came through and picked up a piece of hail that was still larger than a golf ball”

Created: March 14, 2008 10:53 PM Modified: March 14, 2008 10:53 PM A lot of energy in the atmosphere made for a surprising batch of severe weather through the Ark-La-Tex Friday night. via KTBS-TV Shreveport

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Related Topix: Weather, Claiborne, LA, Homer, LA

Tue Feb 26, 2008

KSLA-TV Shreveport

Claiborne Parish Man Arrested On Drug Charges In Bossier Parish

Posted: Updated: An Athens, Louisiana man is behind bars after police say he was found with a variety of drugs. via KSLA-TV Shreveport

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Sun Dec 30, 2007

News-Star

A brave soldier recalls New Year's, 1945

“Wherever in the Ardennes the American soldier met the German ... on anything like even terms, he overcame him.”

Murry Van Hooser prayed he would live through New Year's Day, 1945. Holed up with 200 other airborne troops in an old French armory built in the 1500s, PFC Van Hooser really had no idea the odds were so tilted ... via News-Star

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Thu Oct 25, 2007

hosted The Banner/STPNS | The Banner/STPNS

Claiborne Electric members donate more than $30,000 to charitable causes

The membership of Claiborne Electric Cooperative has granted $30,300.60 to charitable organizations in the six parish area served by the Co-op.

These grants were made possible through Claiborne Electric's community service program, Operation Round Up. In the program, members voluntarily allow their bills to be rounded up to the next whole dollar. The difference in the actual bill and the rounded amount is deposited into the Operation Round Up Trust Fund. The funds accumulated are allocated and dispersed to charitable causes in the communities served by Claiborne Electric. Read more

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Related Topix: Homer, LA, Charitable Organizations, Bernice, LA, Louisiana

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