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Creole Festival Parade Part2

November 9, 2025
More photos from Sunday's Creole Festival Parade
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Creole Festival Parade

November 9, 2025
The annual Holy Ghost Creole Festival Grand Parade rolling down Landry Street Sunday afternoon
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WCA Perfect For Now

November 8, 2025
WCA Perfect For Now BOBBY ARDOIN St. Landry Now.Com A perfect regular season. A district championship. And now possibly a top seed in the playoffs. At this point it seemingly doesn’t get any better for the Westminster Christian Academy football team. “If you would have told me this two years when I got here, I might not have believed this could have happened to us so soon,” said WCA head football coach Byron Porter. The Crusaders have made the Division IV non-select playoffs each year since Porter arrived at WCA and now the program is undefeated after 10 games for the first time since 2010, Porter said. “It takes a lot of things for something like this to happen and everyone has played a part and that means our coaches, players, parents and school administration. Then it also means you’re both good and lucky,” Porter added. WCA will have at least…
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St. Landry Football Week 10 Results, Records

November 8, 2025
ST. LANDRY FOOTBALL WEEK 10 RESULTS,, RECORDS Week 10 Results Opelousas 41, Beau Chene 0 Sacred Heart 42, Berchmans 0 Eunice 64, Washington-Marion 50 North Central 2, Block 0 Northwest 45, Iota 14 Catholic PC 35, Opelousas Catholic 14 Holy Savior Menad 19, Port Barre 14 Westminster 37, St. Edmund 22 Week 10 Records Beau Chene (1-8, 0-4) Berchmans (1-9, 0-6) Eunice (4-6, 2-3) North Central (5-5, 1-5) Northwest (6-4, 6-0) Opelousas (3-6, 3-1) Port Barre (3-7, 1-3) St. Edmund (8-2, 4-2) Westminster (10-0, 6-0) 
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SLP Government To Host Food Collection

November 8, 2025
Food Collection to Support Families Impacted by SNAP Benefit CrisisST. LANDRY PARISH – St. Landry Parish Government will host a Food Collection onThursday, November 13, 2025, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the St. Landry Parish Ag Arena tosupport families impacted by the ongoing SNAP benefit crisis.Residents, businesses, and organizations are encouraged to participate by donatingnon-perishable food items to help local families facing hardship.Parish President Jessie Bellard emphasized the importance of community support during thistime:“So many families in our parish are struggling right now because of the reduction inSNAP benefits. This food drive is a way for us to come together and make sure noone in St. Landry Parish goes hungry.”The collection site will be open throughout the day at:St. Landry Parish Ag Arena1939 W. Landry StreetOpelousas, LA 70570SLPG staff will be on-site to assist with drop-offs and ensure a smooth collection process.All donations will go directly to parish…
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Project Safe Neighborhood Nets Two Felony Arrests And Drug Seizure

November 7, 2025
PROJECT “SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD” NETS TWO FELONY ARRESTS & DRUG SEIZURE ARRESTED:Kolbe Ross Thomas, 21 years old407 Hillside StreetOpelousas, LA 70570CHARGES:PWITD Schedule I (Marijuana)PWITD Schedule II (Crack Cocaine)2 cts. Possession of CDS in the Presence of a Minor ARRESTED:Jalon T. Breaux, 21 years old911 Clarence Cormier RoadOpelousas, LA 70570 CHARGES:PWITD Schedule I (Marijuana)PWITD Schedule II (Crack Cocaine)2 cts. Possession of CDS in the Presence of a Minor Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz reports, “On November 6, 2025, Narcotics Detectives with the St.Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office were working the “Safe Neighborhood” Grant Program when they obtained information of Kolbe Thomas being in possession of a large amount of illegalnarcotics at the residence of 1132 Jennings Road near Opelousas, LA. After establishingsurveillance on the residence, Thomas was observed sitting in the driver’s seat of a silver Lexusin the driveway. A second subject was also observed sitting in the passenger seat, who waslater identified as…
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SB. Proposes New Millage

November 7, 2025
SB Proposes New Millage BOBBY ARDOIN St. Landry Now.com Editor St. Landry Parish School Superintendent Milton Batiste III is hoping to generate additional funding that offsets mounting District financial difficulties by calling a property millage increase election scheduled for 2026. School Board members approved the election plan during a special meeting last week, but so far they have provided little discussion on the matter. Batiste briefly addressed the issue again on Thursday night during a regular meeting in his superintendent’s message. The St. Landry School District, according to Batiste, has the fourth lowest millage rate statewide (20.39 mills), an amount that Batiste said has not changed since it was approved by voters in 1986. At this point Batiste is proposing an increase of about “9.8 or 9.9 mills,” that he thinks will help the District plagued by reduced state funding loss due to declining enrollment parishwide. The parishwide sales taxes that support…
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SLP Sheriff’s Dept. Arrest Report 11-07-2025

November 7, 2025
PRESS RELEASENovember 7, 2025 James Lee Thompson, Jr., B/M, age 41, 1024 N. Railroad Avenue, Opelousas, LA., 70570, Possession with intent todistribute schedule II CDS (3 counts), possession of schedule II CDS, possession with intent to distribute schedule I CDS,possession of schedule IV CDS, transactions involving proceeds from drug offenses, possession of schedule I CDS.Arrested by Opelousas Police Department.Cardale A. Ford, B/M, age 35, 513 Joseph Street, Opelousas, LA., 70570, Illegal possession of stolen firearms, possessionof schedule II CDS (2 counts), felon in possession of a firearm, illegal possession of a weapon in the presence of a CDS,introduction of contraband into a penal institution, bench warrant. Arrested by Opelousas Police Department.Cornelius Jenkins, B/M, age 49, 1121 S. Hillman Street, Basile, LA., 70515, Obscenity. Arrested by Opelousas PoliceDepartment.Phillip Neal Collins, B/M, age 52, 131 Sherrie Street, Opelousas, LA., 70570, Carjacking. Arrested by Opelousas PoliceDepartment.Jalon Trevon Breaux, B/M, age 21, 911 Clarence…
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Chicken Salad Sandwich Sale

November 6, 2025
For 129 years the ladies at the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in Opelousas have held their annual November chicken salad sandwich sale. Their 130th year began early Thursday when the volunteers began early morning preparing the delicious sandwiches for sale throughout Opelousas. I can attest that it would be hard to find a better sandwich anywhere.
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Creole Fest Set To Roll

November 6, 2025
The 31st annual Holy Ghost Creole Festival begins Friday, Nov. 7, and continues through Sunday, Nov. 9, with the rolling of the Creole Festival Parade which rolls down Landry Street beginning at 11am.

 

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