Crowley News

Diversity is a signature of The Great Race - diversity of people and diversity of competing vehicles.

"Dancing with the Stars, In a Caring Way" co-chairs Mary Zaunbrecher, far left, and Emily Stoma, far right, presented the program at Tuesday's meeting of the Rotary Club of Crowley which featured dance selections from the event.

At a former feed store and semi-refurbished warehouse in the shadows of the downtown railroad tracks in Lafayette, the garage doors are open but the stifling June air doesn't move.

The Crowley Art Association has announced that it is still accepting entries for its 24th Annual Rice Capital Juried Art Competition, scheduled for July 1 - July 27. Registration forms for the competition, which is open to all adult artists and school-aged children, are available at The Gallery, 222 N. Parkerson Ave. in Crowley, 783-3747.

A child from the WWII era has finally made it home safely today. Mrs. Emiko Komoda Trahan was born in Nagasaki, Japan and in 1970 she made Crowley her home.

During the Crowley city council meeting Tuesday night, the council moved to condemn four dilapidated properties, honored a recently deceased man who served the city for decades and donated a police unit to the city of Estherwood.

The Acadia Parish Rice Field Day, June 14, at the South Farm of the Rice Research Station, starting at 8:30 a.m. Speakers will talk about the current rice crop, insect control, variety development, this year's soybean crop, soybean research and rice weed control.

There's a lot going on in and around Southwest Louisiana this weekend. Events will include the Calcasieu and Acadiana Kennel Clubs Annual Dog Show and the last Downtown at Sundown concert in Lake Charles, as well as the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office Annual Youth Fishing Derby.

Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 pm on Thursday, June 6, 2013 at Duhon Funeral Home in Crowley for Antonio "Tony" "Taco" Hernandez, 33, who passed away on Sunday, June 2, 2013 Cotulla,Tx.

9-10 a.m. Du cafe et du discutation, tout en francais. . Hosted by the Cajun Prairie Chapter of OLLI at LSU-Eunice.

A redbanded stink bug found on June 3 in a soybean field at the South Farm of the Rice Research Station near Crowley.

CROWLEY Luke Ancelet and Ben Broussard combined to pitch a one-hitter Tuesday in the Gents' 4-1 summer league victory over Iota at Miller Stadium.

District 42 Rep. Jack Montoucet, D-Crowley, has never been one to pull his punches.

New brunch spot Brick & Spoon hasn't even been open in Lafayette for a month, but two more locations are set to open soon, one in Houston and another in Orange Beach, Ala.

Acadia Parish Sheriff Wayne Melancon announced that 36-year-old Henry Roberto Dubon of Crowley has been arrested and charged with the first-degree murder and armed robbery of Tomas Mendoza, whose decomposed body was found on Hawks Road in the community of Roberts Cove on the evening of Thursday, May 30. Melancon stated that Dubon allegedly robbed ... (more)

Crime Stoppers of Acadia Parish is seeking the public's help in locating a man wanted in two attempted murders in Crowley.

Ben Mitchell describes himself as a "local boy trying to take care of his wife and three girls." Based upon how busy he has been recently with his welding jobs, running Bayou Water and Woods Taxidermy and going to culinary school at the prestigious Louisiana Culinary Institute in Baton Rouge, he is working incredibly hard towards meeting his goal.

After 10 consecutive legislative victories, backers of a new school district in Baton Rouge face their biggest hurdle: how to get a daunting two-thirds majority in the state House of Representatives, which is 70 votes.

Barbara Benson, who recently began working at South Louisiana Community College/Acadian Branch in Crowley, as part of their alternative energy program is looking forward to the fall 2013 semester at the school with great enthusiasm.