Grand Cane News

LOGANSPORT - The 1,000 or so customers of South DeSoto Water System should have water today.

MANSFIELD - The Historic Grand Cane Association will mark the 110th anniversary of the incorporation of the village of Grand Cane with free cake and punch at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the downtown historic district.

Caddo Council on Aging will have a sewing/crafting garage sale from 7 to 11 a.m. today in the gym at Christ United Methodist Church, 1204 Crabapple Drive in Shreveport.

GRAND CANE - "Charlotte's Web the Musical" completes its run at BackAlley Theater in Grand Cane this weekend Friday and Saturday.

EXCO Resources, Inc. announced today they will be hosting an event on June 26, 2009 to unveil their newly constructed Haynesville Shale Field Office and break ground on a new, state-of-the-art Haynesville Shale Gas Gathering and Treating Facility.

Sci-Port: Louisiana's Science Center will celebrate Father's Day this weekend with 'Big Toys' demonstrations and displays.

MANSFIELD - A woman in prison for giving drugs to a man who died of an overdose and, in an unrelated case, a man who violently raped a former girlfriend have been unsuccessful in winning appeals of their convictions and sentences.

Lake Bethlehem Baptist Church will participate in the summer food service program, a news release states.

GRAND CANE - Sarepta natives and former Shreveporters Julie and Kenny Mills had been married a year in 2004 before lunch at The Restaurant in Grand Cane had them considering a slower life in the DeSoto Parish village they found so quaint.

GRAND CANE - The BackAlley Theater is being transformed into a barn, a state fair and countryside for its new play, "Charlotte's Web, the Musical," with productions set for June 19-20 and June 26-27. Bradley McCollum is the musical director, and Gwen Paga and MaryJo Sallis are pianists.

Mary Christina McMahan and Bradley Marshall Saloom exchanged wedding vows on Friday, May 1, 2009, at Our Lady of Fatima Church, in Lafayette, during a 7:00 ceremony.

GRAND CANE - "The Strumdingers," a seven-member ukulele group, will perform at the BackAlley Theater at 7 p.m. Saturday.

SPRINGHILL - The annual Relay for Life event will be held tonight at Lumberjack Stadium.

SAREPTA - The Arc of North Webster, 24556 U.S. Highway 371 in Sarepta, will have an open house for the community from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday.

The city of Shreveport's office of the city engineer has announced street inconveniences and closures for the week.

MANSFIELD - DeSoto police jurors Wednesday night upped by $3 million the amount of money earmarked for extensive repairs of five heavily traveled roads.

Six former employees of Bossier City's Utilities Department are accused of separately stealing $3,700 worth of scrap metal from the city over several months and selling it.

The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office arrested a Grand Cane man for contributing to the delinquency of a 13-year-old girl.

MANSFIELD - Another DeSoto Parish educator has been arrested. This time, the teacher, Cindy Marlene Wyatt Cobbs, 30, was charged with drug possession and providing liquor to minors at her Grand Cane home, where weekend parties involving juveniles were commonplace, DeSoto investigators said.

The Webster Parish Police Jury meets at 10:30 a.m. the first Tuesday of each month.