Bienville News

Two women who allegedly possessed 658 dosage units of Xanax in their home are among four people arrested on drug charges in recent days in Bienville Parish.

Students at two Bienville Parish schools where standardized testing irregularities were reported will not have their results voided by the state Department of Education or the local School Board, DOE spokeswoman Ileana Ledet said this week.

Police Chief Willie Shaw fired officer Demond Wheatley, who joined the department in August 2009, after a morning pre-disciplinary conference "for violation of department policies," according to a release.

Investigations by the Bienville School Board have concluded that student testing irregularities did occur at two schools, Gibsland-Coleman School in Gibsland and Crawford Elementary in Arcadia.

After many delays, Restaurant R'Evolution finally opens next month. The project, inside the Royal Sonesta Hotel, is a collaboration between Louisiana's John Folse and the formerly Chicago-based Rick Tramonto, widely considered one of the nation's leading chefs.

Hay, Glennie, 90, of Bienville, died Wednesday; services at 10 a.m. Friday at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, Arcadia; burial in Campground Cemetery.

Advocate Staff Photo by Travis SpradlingLouisiana Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne, far right, gets help Monday from Mark Atwood, wearing maroon and owner of Alexandria's Atwood Bakery, to cut the Louisiana birthday cake in Memorial Hall at the State Capitol.

When Jean-Baptiste le Moyne, the Sieur de Bienville, founded New Orleans in 1718, he was arguably too busy supervising the construction of huts and storage houses along the crescent bend of the Mississippi to stop and write in detail about his adventures as governor of the raw new territory of Louisiana.