As Lent begins and Catholics abstain from meat on Fridays, Ash Wednesday, and Good Friday, demand for Louisiana fresh seafood increases. Harlon Pearce of Harlan’s LA Fish in Kenner says there is a lot of great seafood to choose from…
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Pearce says the wild catfish caught in Louisiana is amazing right now and he says give it a couple of weeks and there will be plenty of crawfish.
Lent is a 40-day period of fasting and abstinence in the Catholic church. New Orleans Archbishop James Checchio CHECK-ee-oh says fasting doesn’t always have to refer to refraining from eating food.
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A Rapides Parish woman by the name of Carrie Willis is convicted in connection with a wildfire west of Glenmora nearly three years ago. Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain says the incident came at a time when wildfires were rampant in Louisiana due to a historic drought.
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The wildfire burned about 27 acres of a young pine plantation and Willis was sentenced to two years of probation and she will have to pay nine-thousand dollars in restitution.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette athletics is mourning the death of former basketball standout Bo Lamar who died earlier this week at the age of 74. Lamar averaged 31 points a game during his career. Kevin Foote of the Advocate says Lamar was the catalyst for then-Southwestern Louisiana’s rise from an NAIA program to one of the top Division One programs…