Funeral services for a 22 woman who died of cancer will be held Saturday at Pleasant Green Baptist Church. Services for Mikayla Hester Cottonham, 22, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Pleasant Green Baptist Church, with burial to follow…
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Walmart employee returns credit card filled wallet, Miller thankful
What do you do when a wallet full of credit cards and a driver’s license show up missing? Usually, there is panic, especially in light of news stories about stolen identities and credit card theft. Last week, Cleo Miller, owner…
Services held for Brass family matriarch, Ora Lee Brass, 101
Funeral services were held Thursday, January 26, 2023 at the Miller Funeral Home Chapel for Ora Lee Brass. Mrs. Brass was 101 years old. Her obituary reads as follows:… Log in to read the remainder of this story. Download the…
Status of NAACP leadership still unresolved, branch to swear-in leaders
A swearing in ceremony for newly elected officers of the Ouachita NAACP is resulting in complaints of foul-play from one candidate for the branch’s top slot. The Ouachita N.A.A.C.P. is scheduled to install newly elected officers Thursday night,…
McCoy says reason white secretary resigned will not be hidden
She may have resigned but it will not be swept under the rug. Those were the words of Rev. Harold McCoy, the only black member of the Ouachita Parish School Board, in response to the resignation of the white school…
Snaps of the City
Between January 18, and January 25, 2023, our friends were busy on social media, including these snaps.
Lula Mae Goins Green: From the Kitchen to the Ward
1957, Lula Mae Goins Green a 25-year-old negro single mother of three working in the kitchen of St. Francis Hospital in Monroe, Louisiana. Sees the first group of the graduated class from the Natchitoches Negro School of Nursing, Natchitoches, Louisiana…