Mansura News

Charles Severance, left, with Dr. Paul Coreil, LSU AgCenter vice chancellor for extension.

Travis Gremillion, Brock Dupont and Ethan Dupont, volunteers from St. Joseph's Catholic School in Plaucheville, help hang the pigs at the open pit during the Mansura Cochon de Lait Friday.

Penny Simon's letter of May 5 was quite interesting. She seems to fear that people in Ouachita Parish are too backward to communicate in the French language.

I must say I was a little perturbed when I saw a local commercial advertising Downtown Monroe's "Cochon de Lait." I had to pause the commercial to make sure I was reading it correctly.

Kathy Gaspard, 37, of 555 La. Highway 114, Mansura, was charged with three counts of simple burglary, 12 counts of theft and six counts of possession of stolen things after detectives found stolen items at her residence, Avoyelles Parish sheriff's officials said.