Campus Corner

The Southeastern Louisiana University sports weekend started Friday morning with the Lady Lion tennis team returning home sitting tied atop the Southland when they welcomed in Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The Islanders proved to be rude guests, recording a clean sweep of Coach Jason Hayes’ squad, 7-0.

Be Kind to Your Eight-legged Friends

The most common reaction from people when they encounter a spider is to scream, jump on a chair, run out of the house, burn the house down with a flamethrower, or move to another continent.

The Sccop

AMITE—Parish officials have closed a portion of Belle Gardner Road at the wooden bridge pending a structural review of the bridge.

The Alligator

Heeyyyyyyyy my friends! I sure did miss all of you over this past week. You know what I didn’t miss though? A meal. Not one single meal. In fact, I think I had a few extras.Have y’all ever seen an alligator with a stomachache? Uh huh, I didn’t think so. It ain’t nothing pretty.

Back in My Day

I do not know when the rules of the road turned into polite suggestions, but somewhere between cassette tapes and whatever folks stream directly into their eyeballs now, everybody collectively decided that traffic laws were more of a personality test than actual laws.

THE SCOOP

The Scoop 260302MMThe following roads will have lane closures Monday, March 2, to Friday, March 13, to allow for Flashing Yellow Arrow signal work. The road will be open to regular traffic with no lane restriction on oversized loads passing through the work zone: US 51 (Morrison Blvd) & C.M.

SAVE America Act Ensures Government by the Consent of Americans

I'll admit that this issue has always confounded me. When we require photo ID for numerous uses in everyday American life, why would we not demand something similarly reliable when we exercise our fundamental, constitutional right to vote?

Back in my day

Back in my day, music belonged to you.If you bought a cassette tape, that tape was yours. You could play it in the truck, leave it on the dashboard until it warped like a potato chip, or accidentally unwind half of it with a pencil while trying to fix the player.But it was yours.

THE SCOOP

Expansive wildfires sparked by gusty wind conditions burned in Livingston and St. Tammany Parishes on Sunday. The St. Tammany blaze resulted in the closure of I-12 between Hwy 59 (Abita) and Hwy 434 (Lacombe) due to dangerously low visibility.

Living in Harmony with Coyotes

Every year around this time, photos, videos, and “warnings” about coyotes make their rounds on social media pages. Most people see such posts, and the predominant comments include advice to kill the coyote before it eats the neighborhood pets. It usually snowballs from there.