The 2018 Fall Ruston Makers Fair showcased approximately 100 local makers and their works for sale Saturday in downtown Ruston. Ruston residents Theresa Parker, left, and Diane Stewart are pictured viewing wood bowls to purchase.
When Jesus (went ashore) and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.
By this time it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him. “This is a remote place,” they said, “and it’s already very late. Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”
But he answered, “You give them something to eat.”
— Mark 6:34-37, The Bible
New International Version
Pictured top left, are cars lining up waiting for volunteers to wheel out carts of sacked lunches. Pictured top right are Trinity United Methodist Church members from left, Linda Wallace, Barbara Jakiela and Lillian McCullin preparing bread for sandwiches. Pictured at bottom left, Trinity’s Cassie Huneycutt starts making the sandwiches. At bottom right, Presbyterian Church of Ruston member Michael Murray talks about the lunch program while Trinity’s Kathy Davis adds cheese to the sandwiches.
Ruston residents who want to learn more about the Walker administration’s plan to create an economic development district that would generate money for additional facilities at the city’s new sports complex can do so at a pair of town hall meetings set for Sept. 24 and 25 at the Historic Fire Station.
The Sept. 24 meeting begins at 5:30 p.m.; the Sept. 25 meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Both meetings will cover the same topic.
“I want people to come and see what we’re trying to do, get the correct information and ask questions,” Mayor Ronny Walker said.
State Hwy. 822 between Bartlet Road and Hwy. 33 is closed indefinitely as a precautionarly measure while NuStar Energy crews repair an anhydrous ammonia pipeline that ruptured late Sunday afternoon.
The road, which had been re-opened Monday afternoon, was closed again this morning when the ammonia odor began to drift around the immediate area, Kip Franklin, director of the Lincoln Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said. Residents are being allowed to come and go from their homes.
Walpole Tire & Service Service, LCC, has been presented with the Better Business Bureau’s 2018 Torch Award for Customer Commitment.
The award honors BBB Accredited Businesses and Charity Members that maintain a superior commitment to ethics, overall excellence, and quality in the workplace.
Ruston could be on its way to getting another planned unit development, but first the Board of Aldermen has to annex into the city the land upon which the proposed PUD would be built.
The Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday recommended to the board that it begin the annexation process for approximately 45 acres at the southwest corner of South Barnett Springs Street and Fletcher Lane that Bossier City developer David Willis wants to turn into the Pelican Pointe development.
Some 309 Lincoln Parish public school teachers are getting a share of more than $350,000 awarded to them in recruitment, recognition and retention incentives.
Money for the incentives comes from a federally funded Teacher Incentive Fund grant. The current awards are the first disbursement in the five-year grant and were earned mostly for work done during the 2017-18 school year, Julie Stephenson, Lincoln Parish’s teacher pipeline lead and university liaison, said.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Amid concerns about bottlenecks to access, Louisiana regulators agreed Monday to loosen limits on how many medical marijuana patients doctors authorized to dispense cannabis can treat.
Louisiana's State Board of Medical Examiners voted 8-1 to remove a cap established in 2016 that limited physicians to 100 medical marijuana patients. People seeking the treatment pushed elimination of the cap, worried they will have difficulty getting the medication when it becomes available later this year, estimated around November.
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian reconnaissance aircraft was shot down by a Syrian missile over the Mediterranean Sea, killing all 15 people on board, the Russian Defense Ministry said today. It blamed Israel for the crash, saying the plane was caught in the crossfire as four Israeli fighters attacked targets in northwestern Syria.
The Russian military said the Il-20 electronic intelligence plane was hit 35 kilometers (22 miles) offshore late Monday as it was returning to its home base nearby.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are forging ahead with plans for a Senate hearing they had hoped to avoid on a woman's claims that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were high schoolers, hoping to salvage the judge's endangered Supreme Court nomination with a risky, nationally televised showdown between him and his accuser.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The river seethed a quarter-mile away, bulging from its banks, so the patrol cars circled the neighborhood three times.
"Get out now," a voice boomed from a bullhorn. "This is an emergency."
Waheeda Reese and her 14-year-old daughter, Anissa, were inside watching news reports about drowned towns all over the state and rain that hadn't yet stopped.
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian reconnaissance aircraft was shot down by Syrian forces responding to an Israeli airstrike, killing all 15 people aboard, in what President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday was "a chain of tragic accidental circumstances."
The downing of the Il-20 highlighted the dangers posed by the conflicting interests of various powers in the crowded skies over Syria and threatened the close security ties between Russia and Israel.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Christine Blasey Ford wants the FBI to investigate her allegation that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh before she testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing next week, her lawyers said in a letter to the panel.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is flexing his executive power to declassify secret documents in the Russia investigation, an extraordinary move he says will ensure that “really bad things” at the FBI are exposed. But the decision, made against the backdrop of Trump’s spiraling outrage at the special counsel’s Russia investigation, may expose sensitive sources and methods and brush up against privacy law protections, experts say.
Ruston Community Theatre is pleased to announce the cast for its first show of the 2018-19 season with “Greater Tuna” directed by Mitch Dufour and sponsored by Graham Real Estate & Property Management.
“Greater Tuna was written by Jaston Williams, Ed Howard and Joe Sears.”
In the fictional small town of Tuna, Texas, Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie take to their morning show microphones at local radio station OKKK to keep their listeners informed of important Tuna events.
Louisiana Secretary of State candidate Julie Stokes said Tuesday her top priority, if elected, will be to protect the state’s election system from corruption.
“If you don’t have safe, secure, fair elections, you’ve got nothing,” Stokes said during a campaign stop in Ruston.
Stokes, a Republican, is one of nine candidates running for the job that came open when former Secretary of State Tom Schedler resigned in May amid allegation of sexual harassment. The primary is Nov. 6.
Kyle Ardoin, Schedler’s top assistant and interim secretary of state, is one of the nine candidates.
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — With Wilmington still mostly an island surrounded by Hurricane Florence's floodwaters and people waiting for hours for handouts of necessities like food, North Carolina's governor is pleading with thousands of evacuees to be patient and not return home just yet.
"I know it was hard to leave home, and it is even harder to wait and wonder whether you even have a home to go back to," Gov. Roy Cooper said as officials began distributing supplies to thousands of residents of Wilmington, population 120,000.
Pictured above is new executive director of the Dixie Center of the Arts Travis Fontenot, center, speaking with Linda Newton, left, of Ruston; and Sue Ross, of Ruston; during a meet and greet event Tuesday night at the Dixie. Pictured at left Fontenot speaks with Phillip Palmer, right, about reaching young audiences to attend Dixie events.
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Several lawmakers bid good riddance to the outgoing manager of the state-owned, safety-net hospitals in north Louisiana, saying Tuesday that they expected a new oversight deal to improve the facilities.
The Shreveport and Monroe hospitals which care for the poor and uninsured and help train Louisiana State University medical students will shift to new management Oct. 1, under oversight of a new company jointly controlled by LSU and Ochsner Health System.
