We’ve reached the Thanksgiving holiday, and it may likely bear the description that seems to describe the way it plays out this year.
Be thankful for our health givers
You know, Thanksgiving gets a bum rap.
There once was a cartoon of two men sitting in deck chairs on a sinking cruise liner, water up to their ankles.
It sometimes seems like a perk, but many times life on the road – even with a community newspaper – seems more like the nature of the beast. The work involves many miles on the road long before dawn and long after most people call it a day. As much as I grumble about it, a grueling road trip…
Did you ever have a sailor’s yarn proved, then spend your life hearing the yarn over and over again?
In the course of five days, we have seen how much impact an industry can have on a communtiy, both bad and good.
There’s a tradition that happens after a competition or contest.
Author George Orwell inspired a memorable catchphrase based on his most famous novel, a futuristic story about a year mired in chaos and unrest.
When did grandfatherhood go high tech?
Read any newspaper or web article, or watch any TV broadcast or webcast, and you’ll hear the same proclamation about the vote we make on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Dear editor:
We’re down to the wire on the 2020 presidential election, and this writer has drawn a conclusion from this year’s campaign.
At one time it was talked about in terms of months. Then it became weeks. Now it is days.
The first months into the COVID-19 pandemic provided a cushion for millions of residents who were furloughed, laid off or permanently unemployed – enough so that some did not think what would happen when the gravy train went dry.
When you’ve covered high school football enough, you recognize that sound of pads really hitting. It’s what you see after the hit that you don’t want to see.
Compromise can be a tough issue for people in many walks of life, but the consequences from a failure to achieve it can prove far more difficult.
To the Pointe Coupee Community,
Pointe Coupee Parish was spared the brunt of Hurricane Laura.
Let’s pretend for a moment that you are standing on the street corner waiting for the crosswalk light to signal green.
Pointe Coupee Parish was spared the brunt of Hurricane Laura.
The Pointe Coupee Parish School Board pulled off what many considered “the unthinkable” last month and it looked like a sign that members were focusing their attention on the bigger issues.
Getting approval was only half the battle.
If some residents once wondered about the term “virtual learning,” they probably know it well by now. The 2020-21 school year has begun in Pointe Coupee Parish and most of the state, but it has a much different look from any that preceded it.
Dr. Eroche was a hardcase.
The COVID-19 pandemic has curtailed or shelved longstanding rituals and traditions here and nationwide. Now one of the most cherished pastimes rests on the chopping block.
August moves us toward the sixth month of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, for which a few choice adjectives can aptly describe the sentiments of most Americans. The words include “grief-stricken,” “frustrated,” “angry,” “uncertain” and “impatient,” along with a few words unsuitable for a n…
By the time the next edition of The Pointe Coupee Banner comes out, public, private and parochial schools in our parish will have logged four days of the school year.
Dear editor:
M onths of questions on how an official school year will come will be answered in less than two weeks when students return to class in Pointe Coupee Parish. Or perhaps, they won’t.
Candidates have been campaigning since, well, since the end of the last election. Whenever and for whatever office that involved.
Leaders of the Westside Sponsoring Committee will host a Zoom meeting from 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, to a launch their “10,000 Conversations Campaign.”
Dear editor:
As The Banner went to press on Wednesday, another exercise is what makes this the world’s greatest nation also was underway.
Dear editor:
Had a chance to talk to Roger Cador on Wednesday.
We as Americans often take things for granted, some of which we do not fully understand the extent of the value until they’re gone.
It’s hard to believe we’ve reached the midpoint of 2020 – and I don’t say that with glowing optimism.
Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, be that about politics, LSU football or how they come up with those names for hurricanes. But when someone expresses his opinion, and has the political power to enforce it, we have to make note of it.
Metropolitan areas, including Baton Rouge and New Orleans, have issued mandatory orders for residents to wear masks in public places. Violation would result in misdemeanor fines, upwards of $500 in the New Orleans area, while Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome has not imposed a…
Fourth of July celebrations bring talk about freedom, even in a time when a pandemic and racial tensions remain rampant across the nation.
Preparing for school meant enduring the “school clothes shopping day,” dreaded by any child – and probably more by mothers.
I often use the following story to help youth come to the realization that the difficult times in their lives are the foundation for what will eventually support the person they will become.
Typically, this time of year is filled with graduation ceremonies and celebrations.
By this time next week, Rene Thibodeaux will be the sheriff of Pointe Coupee Parish.
If you like to gamble, would you place a $200,000 bet without knowing the odds either way?
“Lil Terry” died last week.
It’s that time of year to dust off the “congratulations graduates” accolades and “Good luck, Class of …” wishes.
We have heard that all that glitters is not gold, which proved true in a relief package the federal government unveiled when the pandemic stalemated much of the national economy.
Dear editor:
