Changing times often bring uncertainty to residents, particularly those in rural communities.
You help your neighbors. It’s being neighborly.
Dear editor,
Last year, large crowds converged for two Mardi Gras parades in New Roads, and one in Livonia. Who could imagine how much life would change within weeks of these events?
“Nothing says baseball season like frozen roads and basepaths.”
How easy is it to juggle eggs?
During a time when cancellations and distancing have become so common in life, it’s been tough to find something we can define as normal.
Louisiana residents did not have to wait long to find out the effect President Joe Biden’s administration would have on the state.
Have you ever listened to a complaint, a complaint about the state of our nation, some parish service or a pothole in front of a home?
Timing is often the biggest catalyst in the chances for legislation to pass, but the opposite applies to a plan a state lawmaker wants to bring before state lawmakers during the 2021 legislative session.
It’s one thing to say our teachers and our school system need help.
Each year, the second Monday in January is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to honor and remember the work and goals of equality espoused by the civil rights leader.
No tears will shed from my eyes when we never hear the word “coronavirus” again – least in a present tense – but I also await when we will hear less of another word.
As The Banner went to press Wednesday, both houses of Congress were in session, although some might ask why.
Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow’s death brought us a grim reminder on how COVID-19 can stop even the most vibrant people.
The year-end issue of The Banner usually ranks among the easier editions to compile, but it was a much different scenario this year.
Jokes appear to be bottomless when it comes to saying goodbye to 2020.
We’ve reached Christmas, which means one week of the year many of us would like to forget.
Well, this will be the last Christmas like this.
Life teaches us lessons about how we should be careful what we wish for, and it has hit many Americans hard the week before Christmas.
Awards, in many cases, come down merely to subjectivity. In the case of one recent award announcement, it’s entirely the wrong choice.
When you compete for a championship, in youth basketball, sandlot baseball or a high school title, many people forget one thing.
The ongoing pandemic has changed the mindset on how we judge something as being optimistic or pessimistic, but we’ve also learned this year that it’s not so basic as it sounds.
Graves taking care of red snapper industry
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.
