Ferriday News

BY MATTHEW BARNIDGE Concordia Parish, like the rest of Louisiana, has a long and storied gambling tradition that dates to the earliest periods of settlement.

The Ouachita Council on Aging is hosting its first Shindig featuring the crowd-pleasing Easy Eddie and the Partyrockers at a barn dance from 7 p.m. to midnight July 25.

Gov. Bobby Jindal has announced reappointments to the Board of Commissioners for the Fifth Louisiana Levee District, including Barry Maxwell of Ferriday.

As a newly-ordained Methodist minister, Ray Varnado was looking for a town and country church in need of a pastor and in need of a spiritual uplifting.

Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 18 for a former daycare operator who admitted billing the state for nonexistent children and overbilling for those she did care for.

The 2009 regular session of the state Legislature closed last Thursday, but not without some last minute fireworks.

Ferriday Mayor Glen McGlothin said today the town "should be pumping good water in two or three months and off the boil order," while plans are now being developed to build a new water plant at the location of the old water plant.

Yes, it seems too hot too early. The stifling heat has been just about all anyone can think about lately, we know.

A year seems like a long time to the young among us. Time is marked with birthdays and big holidays.

The Concordia Parish Police Jury agreed Monday night to contact the owners of the property on which the Doty Road Center is located in Ferriday to reach a new lease agreement or see if the owners will donate the property to the parish.

The ongoing probe of an unsolved civil rights era murder in Ferriday took an interesting turn this week.

"It's imperative we go to let them know what projects we're working on locally." Copeland said ongoing work in the area like the Ferriday water project, the port in Vidalia and drainage in Concordia Parish could benefit if brought before the right people in Washington.

The Mississippi River crosses throughout community, but it doesna t divide us. Natchez, Vidalia and Ferriday make up one region, one community.

Administrators collectively say solving the issues with after-school tutoring programs is the path to raise test scores in Concordia Parish.

Ferriday has been awarded a $755,700 state grant for upgrades to its sewer plant, Ferriday Mayor Glen McGlothin said today .

When an industrial prospect comes knocking, Concordia Parish economic officials want to be able to point and say, "Here's what we've got." And Concordia Parish Economic Director Heather Malone and Executive Assistant Jamie Burley have been working to gather the information to do just that.

At Riverland Medical Center in Ferriday in the winter of 1988, Earcel Boyd Sr., 64, was near death.

Brittany Elaine Ratcliff and Scott Pierce Thomson were united in marriage Saturday, May 16, 2009, at Saint Patrick Catholic Church in Ferriday, Louisiana, at 6 o'clock p.m. Officiating at the nuptial mass was Father Louis E. Sklar.

The Concordia Parish Police Jury took care of several routine matters during its regular meeting Monday night.

Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office recovers the body of a 14-year-old who apparently drowned while swimming in Lake Concordia.