Wisner News

When Big Cane Baptist Church in Morrow, Louisiana Baptist Association, needed help rounding up enough workers for Vacation Bible School this summer, they posted the need on the Louisiana Baptist Convention's Cast The Net website: www.lbc.org/castthenet. South Central Baptist Church in Wisner, Deer Creek Baptist Association, sent six workers.

An Environmental Protection Agency audit found "significant shortcomings," especially in the DEQ's division that handles contaminated site cleanups.

If only he had had a Progression Conference to attend at the start of his youth ministry at Wisner Baptist Church, things might have been a whole lot different for Brian Crain.

ConAgra Lamb Weston has begun laying the groundwork for contracts with northeastern Louisiana sweet potato growers who will eventually supply the company's planned processing plant outside of Delhi, which the company hopes to open by fall 2010.

ConAgra Lamb Weston has begun laying the groundwork for contracts with northeastern Louisiana sweet potato growers who will eventually supply the company's planned processing plant outside of Delhi, which the company hopes to open by fall 2010.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Jenkins of Wisner are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Danielle Nicole Jenkins, to Andrew Todd McGuffee, of West Monroe.

ConAgra Lamb Weston's planned sweet potato processing plant near Delhi will likely revitalize a northeastern Louisiana sweet potato industry that has fallen on hard times in recent years and perhaps double planted acreage, farmers and experts say.

The Franklin Parish Police Jury met Tuesday to decide the fate of a malfunctioning pump that has backed up raw sewage in a Wisner neighborhood.

The group "Friends of Armstrong Park" fired a second salvo at a City Hall plan to spend $1 million on park improvements, claiming the money pegged for the project comes from a "quasi-public" fund.

Do you know the significance of the big iron gargoyle on the old building at 709 Jackson Ave.? There must be a story behind it.

Louisiana State Police arrested a Wisner man for drag racing Saturday morning. Troopers also charged 39-year-old Darrick Neal with improper passing, open container in vehicle, driving under suspension and resisting an officer by refusing to identify himself.

The Louisiana Association of Chiefs of Police held its annual conference in Monroe on July 14-16. As Wisner police chief, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all who helped make this year's conference such a great successs, with special appreciation for Haring's Pride Catfish and the Franklin Parish Sheriff's Office for supplying and ...

So often individuals, called to the ministry, are put into positions because of their faithfulness to God but often times lack the necessary training or haven't been fully equipped to carry out their responsibilities.

The author of Louisiana's new "speed trap" law hopes it will prevent small towns from using traffic tickets as fundraisers.

Longtime Franklin Parish catfish farmer Carl Haring believes the latest attempt by the federal government to regulate Vietnamese catfsh may have come too late to save the U.S. catfish industry.

NEW ORLEANS - Lansing-Louisiana will invest $12 million to build a North Louisiana Inland Rail Port in Delhi and expand its grain elevator in Wisner, Lansing vice president Brad Terral and Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain said Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey L. Brooks will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at the South Central Baptist Church Gym in Wisner.

BAGHDAD a ' "We rolled up while it was still on fire," said Spc. Ariel Lain, from Wisner, La., remembering an event still vivid in his mind from his last tour in Iraq.

Mr. and Mrs. Scotty Swillie of Vicksburg, Miss. are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Stephanie Ann Swillie, to Matthew Lane Durham, son of Mr.