Local NewsHistoryCulinarySt Landry HistoryBusiness NewsCommunity From Benny’s Big Star to Benny’s Supermarket First known a Benny's Big Star in 1976, Benny's Supermarket remains in business today in…Carola HartleySeptember 23, 2022
CultureHistoryEvents & ActivitiesSt Landry HistoryCommunity Candlelight Vigil to be Held September 28, 2022 in Opelousas, LA The deadliest instance of racial violence during the Reconstruction period “the Opelousas massacre” is little…AdminSeptember 21, 2022
CultureHistoryCultureCommunity Opelousas Museum and Interpretive Center Opened in Opelousas Thirty Years Ago The Opelousas Museum and Interpretive Center opened in what was called the Sibille Building on…Carola HartleySeptember 20, 2022
HistoryPlacesSt Landry HistoryCommunity Photo from the Past: Christman Building This is a photograph from c. 1908-09 of the Christman Building on West Landry Street…Carola HartleySeptember 14, 2022
HistoryEvents & ActivitiesSt Landry HistoryCommunityWomen in History Photo From The Past – 1961 Swimsuit Style Show in Opelousas The Opelousas Civic League and Abdalla’s Department Show held a unique style show at the…Carola HartleySeptember 7, 2022
CommunityCultureHistorySeasonal Information Happy Labor Day — How It All Began Did you know the United States did not have a Labor Day holiday until the…Carola HartleySeptember 5, 2022
HistoryPeopleSt Landry HistoryPeople & PlacesCommunity Opelouas Trivia — A Little Jim Bowie Info Where was Jim Bowie Born? Did Jim Bowie Live in Opelousas? The Jim Bowie OakCarola HartleySeptember 4, 2022
HistorySt Landry HistoryCommunity This Week — Over The Years From August 25 – September 2nd. 150, 100 and 50 years ago during this week in St. Landry Parish.Carola HartleySeptember 1, 2022
PeopleGenealogyPeople & PlacesCommunityHistory Photo From The Past From Bruce Muller – Who is this? Bruce Muller, and wife Florence from Otsego, Michigan, near Kalamazoo, are trying to identify this…Carola HartleyAugust 31, 2022
HistoryCommunityWomen in History Photo from the Past – Young Ladies in Opelousas at Turn of 20th Century CAROLA LILLIE HARTLEYPublisher and Contributing Writer This photograph from a publication around the turn of…Carola HartleyAugust 29, 2022
CulinaryCultureCommunityWomen in HistoryHistory Remembering Enola Prudhomme Prather Enola Prudhomme, the daughter of Eli Prudhomme and Hazel Reed Prudhomme, was born in St.…Carola HartleyAugust 28, 2022
CultureEvents & ActivitiesCommunityWomen in History Angela Gregory Documentary Premieres Tomorrow Evening on LPB. Angela Gregory: A Legacy Chiseled in Stone - Louisiana Public Broadcast (LPB) - Monday, August…Carola HartleyAugust 21, 2022
People & PlacesCommunityHistoryPeopleSt Landry History Photo from the Past – Arnaudville Family Over a Century Ago Emile and Anna Roger with their two sons Frank and George, at their home in…Carola HartleyAugust 20, 2022
HistorySt Landry HistoryCommunityWomen in History This Week — Over the Years From the two centuries of newspapers in Opelousas during this week of August, over the…Carola HartleyAugust 20, 2022
CommunityHistoryPlacesSt Landry HistoryPeople & Places Opelousas Business and Merchants Organizations – Over the Years Following the US Civil War, the merchants and businessmen of Opelousas started to discuss the…Carola HartleyAugust 18, 2022
HistorySt Landry HistoryCommunity This Week Over the Years See what was happening in our area of Louisiana 150, 100, and 50 years ago.Carola HartleyAugust 11, 2022
Louisiana HistoryHistoryPeopleFamily StoriesPeople & PlacesCommunity Photo from the Past – Roger Family from Arnaudville, LA Photo from the Past - Roger Family from Arnaudville, LA (Photograph from John Coffey Collection.)Carola HartleyAugust 10, 2022
St Landry HistoryPeople & PlacesCommunityHistoryPlaces The Opera Houses of Old Opelousas – Part Four. The Opera House That Never Was We know Opelousas had an opera house as early as the 1830s, with the first…Carola HartleyAugust 9, 2022
HistoryPeopleEvents & Activities Memorial Remembering Ovide Belizaire and an Unknown Individual Scheduled At 10 a.m., on Saturday, August 13, 2022 a memorial remembers the life of Ovide…AdminAugust 9, 2022
HistorySt Landry HistoryCommunity This Week … Over The Years Here's what was happening in our area of Louisiana this week, over the years.Carola HartleyAugust 5, 2022
HistoryPlacesSt Landry HistoryCommunity The Opera Houses of Old Opelousas – Part Three It was a magical time in Opelousas. A time when there were opera houses in…Carola HartleyAugust 3, 2022
HistoryPlacesSt Landry HistoryPeople & PlacesCommunity Opera Houses of Old Opelousas – Part Two The story of the Opelousas Opera Houses continues: By the end of the 1880s and…Carola HartleyJuly 25, 2022
CultureHistoryPeopleGenealogyFamily StoriesCommunity New York Reporter Investigates Her St. Landry History. The last name of a young slave girl sold and relocated to a Louisiana sugar…Bobby ArdoinJuly 21, 2022
HistoryPlacesSt Landry HistoryPeople & PlacesCommunity Photos From The Past: The Depot in Washington, LA – Early 1900s Photographs of the Depot in Washington courtesy of Tommy Lafleur and were used in the…Carola HartleyJuly 21, 2022
HistoryPlacesSt Landry HistoryPeople & PlacesCommunity The Opera Houses of Old Opelousas – Part One From its humble beginning in the 1700s, Opelousas provided different forms of entertainment for its…Carola HartleyJuly 21, 2022
Local NewsHistoryCommunityWomen in History Angela Gregory Story to be Aired on Louisiana Public Broadcast (LPB) The life of Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory to be presented on LPB. Gregory did the…Carola HartleyJuly 16, 2022
HistoryEvents & ActivitiesSt Landry HistoryCommunity Photo from the Past – Louisiana Yambilee Parade c. late 1940s. Louisiana Yambilee Parade heads south down Court Street in this c. late 1940s photograph. (Carola…Carola HartleyJuly 14, 2022
HistoryEvents & ActivitiesSt Landry HistoryCommunity Photo from the Past – Early Yambilee Parade c.1940s Today's Photo from the Past shows an early Yambilee Parade as it rolled down Court…Carola HartleyJuly 10, 2022
HistoryPlacesSt Landry HistoryCommunity Journey Back In Time to Explore The Old Gibbs Corner Ever wonder as you ride through Opelousas what it must have been like one hundred…Carola HartleyJuly 8, 2022
CommunityHistoryEvents & Activities HAPPY 4TH OF JULY ST. LANDRY PARISH! Did you know this about our July 4th holiday?AdminJuly 4, 2022
CultureHistorySt Landry HistoryCommunity Fourth of July in Opelousas – 1901 It was only the second year of the new 20th century and Opelousas was flourishing…Carola HartleyJuly 4, 2022
GenealogyBreaking NewsCommunity St. Landry Parish Clerk of Court Announces New Archivist, Alex Lee Today, St. Landry Parish Clerk of Court (www.stlandry.org), the depository for a vast collection of…AdminJuly 1, 2022
HistoryCulinarySt Landry HistoryPeople & PlacesCultureCommunity A Place Called Toby’s One of the city’s historic landmarks was recently lost when a fire destroyed Toby’s, also…Carola HartleyJune 28, 2022
St Landry HistoryPeople & PlacesCommunityHistoryPeopleSports Photo From The Past – Opelousas’ Famous 1912 Baseball Team Opelousas’ Famed 1912 Baseball Club: The featured photo from the past for today shown the…Carola HartleyJune 26, 2022
Local NewsHistorySt Landry HistoryCommunity Opelousas Jewish Cemetery Gets New Name and More Members of the Opelousas Jewish community, many who came as immigrants to South Louisiana over…AdminJune 22, 2022
People & PlacesHistoryPlacesSt Landry History Washington Had the First Cotonseed Oil Mill in the Parish William Schwing came to Washington from the New Iberia area in the early 1880s and…Carola HartleyJune 18, 2022
CultureHistorySt Landry HistoryCommunity Photos from the Past – Tri-Parish Fair in Eunice, LA The Tri-Parish Fair in Eunice was one of the top highlights of the year for…Carola HartleyJune 15, 2022
Louisiana HistoryCultureHistoryEvents & ActivitiesCommunity Juneteenth, the Newest Federal Holiday, and State Holiday, to be Celebrated Juneteenth National Independence Day falls on Sunday, June 19, 2022, this year. It is a…Carola HartleyJune 15, 2022
PlacesSt Landry HistoryPeople & PlacesWomen in HistoryHistory Photo from the Past – Shopping in Washington, LA c.1908-1915 This photo from the past shows a group of young ladies enjoying themselves on Main…Carola HartleyJune 10, 2022
HistorySt Landry HistoryCommunity Opelousas Gets Its First Bank Studying the history of Opelousas for so many years, I’ve discovered many firsts for the…Carola HartleyJune 9, 2022