Dodson News

Cleanup continued in central Louisiana today from the pummeling delivered on parts of Natchitoches and Winn parishes by a possible tornado Sunday morning.

Here's the latest from the NWS in Shreveport on last weekend's storms including the Dodson, LA storm which has now been deteremined to be an EF2 tornado which injured 2 people: nwsbot: SHV: 3 Se Castor [Bienville Co, LA] nws storm survey reports TORNADO at 03 May, 07:38 AM CDT -- several trees were uprooted or snapped along pumpkin center road ...

Preliminary storm damage reports from the Shreveport National Weather Service for Dodson, LA indicate that a downburst of wind may be responsible for the extensive damage Sunday morning.

DODSON - Zed and Marsheila Smith learned a new meaning for getting tossed out of bed when an apparent tornado ripped through this village 12 miles north of Winnfield on Sunday morning.

The town of Dodson in Winn Parish was apparently leveled by Saturday night and Sunday morning's severe weather.

Jim Dodson likes to talk. His conversations become stories. His stories grow into books, which read like face time with the big, teddybearish, plainspoken guy who has an entertaining opinion on practically everything -- but mainly golf, human relationships and how we got in this pickle anyway.

The Louisiana Workforce Commission is holding an orientation meeting for Winn Parish mill workers who were laid off earlier this month.

Weyerhaeuser is shutting down its Veneer and Engineered Wood Mills in the Lincoln Parish town of Simsboro and the Winn Parish Town of Dodson for an indefinite period.

Weyerhaeuser will indefinitely close its veneer and engineered wood mills in Simsboro and Dodson.

Weyerhaeuser has announced that it will indefinitely close its Veneer and Engineered Wood Mills in the Lincoln Parish town of Simsboro and the Winn Parish Town of Dodson.

A four-acre field of a hundred kinds of daffodils opens to the public this weekend near the Winn Parish town of Dodson.

You know spring is in the air, when the Daffodils are blooming. And you can see them blooming this Friday, Saturday and Sunday in a very special field Dodson, Louisiana.

The H. Nelton Adams Memorial Daffodil Field near Dodson will be open for the public to visit from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb.

Helen 'Harrison' Aaron, of Monroe, a homemaker, died Wednesday. Services are 10 a.m. Saturday at Kilpatrick Funeral Home, West Monroe.

Four people in Winn parish have been arrested on charges of unlawful manufacturing of a controlled substance.