Sicily Island News

Catahoula Parish Veterans Day Program will be November 11 at 9:40 a.m. at Block High School Gym.

Phone customers in the Sicily Island dialing area and some Harrisonburg customers were out of service Thursday afternoon after a fiber optic cable crossing the Ouachita River at Harrisonburg was snagged by a barge.

About 600 Sicily Island residents are without home telephone service after an AT&T fiber optic cable snapped Wednesday night and fell into the Mississippi River.

A lion's share of the nearly $300 million in federal stimulus funds earmarked for Louisiana transportation infrastructure will go to major projects in need of funding instead of repairs to the existing highway system.

COMMUNITY MEETING: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Homewood Baptist Church, 28 Tennessee Ave., Alexandria.

The Louisiana Department of Education announced the 2009 Robert C. Byrd Scholarship recipients.

While most 10-year-olds aren't likely considering the importance of their homework assignments, one particular assignment last year carried great weight for one student at Martin Junior High School in Sicily Island.

SICILY ISLAND -- Patrick 'Mister' Anderson, a student, died Wednesday. Arrangements are incomplete under the direction of Richardson-Sims Funeral Home of Winnsboro.

Road closure: Intersection of Wainwright in Alexandria. Date of completion: 3 p.m., Monday, July 27.

The death of a Sicily Island teen is still under investigation, according to Catahoula Parish Coroner Raymond Rouse.

A teenager from Foules was killed in an accident this week in Catahoula Parish, authorities say.

Natchez country has been home to many people -- great chiefs, circuit riders, surveyors, soldiers, horse hunters, tough and delicate women, and under-the-hill poets.

The federal Department of Health and Hospitals is giving Louisiana $11.7 million in Recovery Act grants to 24 community health centers around Louisiana.

The Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office arrested two men Tuesday on charges of attempted murder in connection with an April 30 shooting in Sicily Island.

Deputies from the Catahoula Parish Sheriff's Office arrested a Sicily Island woman and are looking for three others in connection with a shooting there Thursday night.

West Monroe police on Wednesday evening charged Terry Dewayne Atkins Jr., 811 Newman St., Sicily Island, with possession of marijuana and possession of Xanax.