Ridgecrest News

Governmental offices and many private businesses will be closed for the Christmas holiday period.

The Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office is investigating a Tuesday night robbery that occurred in front of the Handy Pak convenience store in Ridgecrest.

Holiday closures for Thanksgiving include the following: Town halls at Clayton, Ferriday and Vidalia will close at 12 noon on Wednesday and remained closed until Monday.

The U.S. Veterans Administration estimated in September that there were 23.4 million veterans in the United States and in small towns and big cities across the country today -- Veterans Day -- these men and women are being honored and the dead remembered.

Vidalia has a chamber of commerce. Ferriday has a chamber of commerce. But local business leaders are asking - should there be a Concordia Parish chamber of commerce? At the Vidalia Chamber of Commerce's meeting Tuesday, members were handed a survey asking if the Vidalia and Ferriday chambers should join together to form a parish-wide chamber.

Concordia Parish's school accountability scores are in, and while six schools are slightly down, Vidalia Lower Elementary grew nearly six points.

VIDALIA a ' Ridgecrest voters wona TMt elect a mayor today. Interim Mayor Kevin Graham will be elected mayor and Dwayne Sikes will be elected alderman because they are running unopposed.

'Many many times it was very frightening,' recalls Dottie Primeaux Hayes, now an 81-year-old widow, member of First Baptist Church of Lafayette and the Singing Women of Louisiana.

Five persons have been arrested and a warrant issued for a sixth in connection with 15 burglaries in the parish, Sheriff Randy Maxwell said this morning .

The management team of Central American Plus of Monroe, which began operation in January, has already generated more than $1 million in new insurance premium income, according to company leader Herbert Orgeron.

VIDALIA a ' Two more people have been arrested in connection with 15 recent burglaries in Concordia Parish.

Gov. Bobby Jindal delivered a check totaling $1.272 million to Concordia Parish Thursday at a luncheon at the Bryant O. Hammett Vidalia Conference and Convention Center.

More than $1.27 million changed hands when Gov. Bobby Jindal signed a check in Vidalia Thursday as part of his Louisiana working tour.

Wayne DuBose is coming home. Pastor for 14 years - 1980 through 1994 - of Summer Grove Baptist Church in Shreveport, DuBose was called July 23 to be Director of Missions for the Northwest Louisiana Baptist Association.

Louisiana seniors looking to get fresh vegetables from roadside stands and farmers markets have an opportunity to receive $20 in vouchers to do just that.

It was a scene that played out in ways that were different but ultimately the same all across Concordia Parish - the first day of school.

It was a scene that played out in ways that were different but ultimately the same all across Concordia Parish - the first day of school.

The 2009 regular session of the state Legislature closed last Thursday, but not without some last minute fireworks.

The Concordia Parish Police Jury took care of several routine matters during its regular meeting Monday night.