Echo News

An Echo homeowner held a theft suspect until Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office deputies could arrive at his residence early Monday morning, according to a release.

March 7, 1977 New school site: Allen Parish School Board members chose a new 15-acre site on Watley Road just outside Oakdale for the $1.5 million Oakdale Elementary School. Engineer issue old: Rapides Parish police jurors are starting from scratch as they grapple with hiring a parish engineer, but the issue itself is more than nine years old. March 7, 1952 Officer decorated: First Lt. Charles V. Carney, whose wife Janice lives in Alexandria, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for action in Korea. March 7, 1902 Church moved: E.P. Couvillion and son spent a week in Echo moving the Catholic church back as a new church can be built where the old one stood. Baseball challenge: The Alexandria lovers of baseball should organize a good team and try conclusions with the clubs of surrounding towns and vicinities.

You don't need to be some starry-eyed academic or anti-sports geek to realize that the ever-rising... Nelson Lacombe and his wife Anita , owners of A&N Christmas Tree Farm in Echo, carry a Christmas tree to load it into a vehicle for Chandell Fayard , who said she went to the farm because her 14-year-old son Vincent wanted a real tree this year.

'I just make it up as I go along,' said the Opelousas Catholic music teacher. One of the recipes that Faust just made up, Gone Bananas Pie, has qualified her as one of five national finalists in the Martha White Muffin Mix Challenge.

Rapides Parish Jail booking records show the following suspects were booked into the jail on felony charges: Dec.