Dear Editor, We are writing to express our united and sincere support for retaining Mrs. Sonya Jiles- Fields as Principal of Roy Neal Shelling Elementary School. Her leadership has had a profoundly positive impact on the students, staff, and the…
Category: Letter to Editor
Keep up the fight
Dear Editor, I pray that you are well… You don’t know me, but I’ve been reading multiple issues of your newspaper, the Monroe Free Press every day for a week straight now. As my envelope denotes, currently I am incarcerated…
Hope beyond the walls
Dear Editor, My name is Dennis W. Minor, DOC#518772, I am a faithful reader of The Free Press not only because I am from Monroe, South 3rd Street to be exact…but because I have been locked up since 2008, but…
Inmate suspects his life is in danger
Dear Editor, My name is Ronnie L. Cousin, #89334 is my prison number, I am incarcerated at David Wade Correctional Center(DWCC). I am writing in dire need of your assistance by any means provided, I have reason to believe that…
Snaps of the City
Between January 30 and February 5, 2025, our friends were busy on social media, including these snaps.
Louisiana’s Education Quality Support Fund
Dear Editor, Where were State leaders of all varieties, and particularly the current leadership of higher and K-12 education as decisions to eliminate the Support Fund were being made? Where are they now? Every college and university, every k-12 school…
20 year old dies in possible retaliation murder
Monroe police are investigating a fatal shooting that claimed the life of a 20-year-old man Monday in what authorities believe may be connected to an earlier incident. Clay Smith, 20, was fatally shot outside a residence on Breece Circle near…