It took more than three hours for 8,000 soldiers and a thousand-plus trucks to move through Opelousas on Saturday, May 11, 1940, and they were moving as quickly as they could.
Elsewhere in this edition, you’ll read that St. Mary’s unemployment rate has been moving upward and is now over 5%.
Does the average Louisiana citizen have a legal right to follow the internal workings of government in Louisiana?
In a recent column about early baseball rivalries, I noted that the Orange Hoo-Hoos were one of the teams in the short-lived Gulf Coast League in the early 1900s.
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