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By Jim Henderson

 

The Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA) member principals voted last week to keep a split in place between select (private) and non-select (public) during playoff games and championships in football, basketball, baseball softball, starting this coming school (2016-17) year. State Principals considered four other proposals, but the fifth option with the “none of the above” answer passed with 56.6 percent of the vote went to keeping the split in all five sports in place. The fact that there were four other proposals on the docket did not help those who hoped to rescind the split voted on back in January.

By Pam Folse

 

I expected to see a farmer wearing a long-sleeve shirt to protect his skin from the sun. I expected him to have muddy boots. I waited for him to drive up on a tractor pulling a cart. I looked for his slightly-frayed wide-brim straw hat with a sweat-stained band. Well, my vision was all wrong. He rode up on a four-wheeler wearing jeans and a sleeveless red tee. He left his mud-laden boots in the field and was barefooted, except for the caked up earth embedded beneath his toenails.

By David Reynaud

 

Sometimes the end is just a beginning! Although the 2016 LSU Tiger baseball season officially ended last Sunday when Coastal Carolina beat the Tigers in the Super Regional to advance to Omaha, Nebraska to play in the College World Series, for Tiger left-handed pitcher Jared Poché, it may be the beginning of living his dream.

 

By David Reynaud

 

If you would have been allowed to drive down Texas Street in Lutcher on Monday, you may have thought you had somehow traveled back in time. That is because the street, nearly overnight, was transformed by a movie crew to look and feel like a street in 1946 Memphis, Tennessee.

By Pam Folse

 

When former Gramercy Mayor Terry Borne decided not to run for reelection, Gramercy resident Steve Nosacka sought to find his replacement. “I spoke to Terry and many others. I was looking for a capable person who was forward-thinking. Nobody interested in running came forward. Terry said ‘Maybe you’re the person who has to do it.’”