French Settlement News

If it wasn't for little kids, I wouldn't have nearly as much to write about, and might have to get a real job.

An agreement signed by officials Wednesday should help Livingston Parish collect long-overdue sewer bills, Parish President Layton Ricks said.

After Patsy Borie mentioned an April crawfish boil at an Oregon winery in the shadow of Mount Hood, we heard from former Louisiana guy Bert Broussard, now in Anacortes, Wash.: "Hope she knows that any true Cajun can smell out a crawfish boil from five miles.

A $700,000 project is expected to provide residents in the Mt. Hermon Water District of Washington Parish with a more reliable water source.

"If their objective was to change the name to a Louisiana bird, based on the team's recent performance I think Poule D'eaus would have been more appropriate." One of the more colorful krewes in the Spanish Town Mardi Gras Parade is the Krewe of Roadkill, which operates from a "stationary float" that doesn't roll in the parade.