07/17/11 Recent rumors of oil exploration in Morehouse Parish have substance: A Houston-based company is getting ready to drill in a remote area northwest of Bastrop.
07/16/11 Due to extreme drought, wells are running dry outside of Mer Rouge. At least six homeowners on Handy Hill Road, east of Mer Rouge, have stopped reaching water in their wells over the last few weeks.
07/15/11 Josh Alexander, pictured with Damian Robinson (26), has joined the Bastrop High staff as co-defensive coordinator.
07/15/11 Bastrop High has accepted an invitation to play in the National Select 7-on-7 Championships, Thursday through Saturday, in Hoover, Ala.
07/13/11 The East Madison Park swimming pool is slated to open today -- if the weather permits -- while repair work continues on the pool at Chemin-A-Haut State Park.
07/13/11 Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism employees are using Chemin-A-Haut State Park as a classroom this week in a rather untraditional manner.
07/13/11 Morehouse Parish's legislative delegation will be the guests at a luncheon sponsored by the Bastrop-Morehouse Parish Chamber of Commerce.
07/12/11 The Central U.S. will see another hot day Tuesday, while scattered showers and thunderstorms persist along the Ohio River Valley, Midwest and Central Plains.
07/10/11 Earlier this week, the author made a surprise discovery while exploring low-water sites in Bayou Bartholomew: An exposed area of rock containing what appear to be fossilized clam shells.
07/09/11 A spokesman for the state department that oversees water wells said the agency has received no complaints from residents outside Mer Rouge whose wells have run dry.
07/07/11 WHAT IT IS: As many as 500 graduates from Union High School, which closed its doors in Mer Rouge in 1972, will take part in their biennial reunion, which will conclude with a worship service on Sunday.
07/07/11 LSU junior wide receiver Rueben Randle is one of 75 players who were named to the watch list for the Biletnikoff Award.
07/05/11 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will host two public meetings to gather input on a proposal to link two national wildlife refuges, Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas and Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.
07/02/11 LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. (AP) - Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain visited the Bunches Bend area of East Carroll Parish to see the 10,000 acres of prime farm land that flooded when a century old levee failed during the recent battles against a high-running Mississippi River.
06/30/11 Martianna Moore of Bastrop won first place in the softball throw at the Louisiana State Championship Hershey Track & Field Games, held at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Competing in the 9-10 year-old age division, Moore uncorked a winning throw of 97-10.
06/30/11 What's next? National Action Network of Eunice plans to hold a march to Eunice City Hall to demand Police Chief Ronald Dies' resignation. The march will begin at 11 a.m. Monday at Matilda Street and Martin Luther King Drive in Eunice.
06/29/11 A Morehouse Parish School Board committee will seek expert assistance in trying to develop a plan to install artificial turf on the football field at Bastrop High School.
06/22/11 Bastrop Police are investigating a Tuesday afternoon shooting which resulted in a man's death.
06/22/11 Programs the Louisiana Department of Education and federal agencies require the Morehouse Parish School System to provide cover a variety of issues.
06/22/11 WHAT IT IS: Unfunded mandated programs are programs the Louisiana Department of Education requires local school systems to implement, without providing the funds to carry them out. The local school system must determine how it will finance these programs. | 
