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Looking Back…The George Prince ferry
I was looking through my father’s old 35mm slides and found this rare photo taken around 1965. […]
Articles by Patrick Yoes
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A way of life many love to hate
These are truly some trying times for Americans. For most of us, it is also a very patriotic time filled with pride. For the rest of you, well, I guess it is a troubled time torn between your antiwar beliefs and hopefully being supportive of the thousands of our servicemen and women maintaining peace in a troubled region.
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The beginning of a new school year
Can you believe it? Another summer has come and gone already.Three sure signs tell us it’s so. Football practice has started, parents have been stripping school supplies off the shelves and, starting next Monday morning, deputies will be set up in school zones all across St. Charles Parish attempting to slow motorists as an army of school busses take to the streets. […]
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Let’s give neighborhood crime ‘a night out’
For decades, we here in St. Charles Parish have been blessed with a quite and safe community.Often, our problems appeared dwarfed by those of our larger neighboring parishes. […]
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Head’in south for the weekend
This weekend is the one time of the year when literally hundreds of St. Charles Parish residents migrate south. They travel in groups to the small coastal town of Grand Isle and my family is no exception. […]
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Gas boycott–fuel for thought
I have warm memories of 60-cent per gallon gasoline prices, but they are fading rapidly. […]
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Holiday traditions hard to break
Over the 4th of July extended weekend, St. Charles Parish residents were reminded of a couple of things. Fireworks are dangerous and banning them is only as effective as your neighboring parish’s practice. […]
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The high price of freedom
Our world has changed a great deal since September 11th. If nothing more, we now know the painful price of freedom and the depths of hatred towards the very things we as Americans take for granted. […]
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Local tradition gets bigger
It’s a local tradition that gets bigger and better year after year. For the sixteen years, St. Charles Parish has sponsored a pre-4th of July celebration at the west bank bridge park in Luling. […]