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- Popular books have regional connection
Our celebration of the 16-year history of Windows a bookshop continues this week, and before we reveal our remaining all-time bestsellers, we want to mention a great honor that we received last year.
- DEATHS
BASTROP - Mageline Barker, a homemaker, died Saturday. Services are 1 p.m. Sunday at Tennant Funeral Home, Bastrop.
- Staff changes in place at Mt. Salus school
Mount Salus Christian School will begin 2009 with a new headmaster and a new high school principal.
- Vietnam era Marine accepts medals with pride
War protestors greeted Lake Providence native Vernon Ford more than four decades ago when the U.S. Marine stepped off a plane in Los Angeles.
- New addition to Cotton Museum dedicated
LAKE PROVIDENCE - State and local officials here are hoping the addition of a new half-million dollar building at the Louisiana State Cotton Museum will help stimulate the economy and further attract tourists ...
- Interfaith Delta Cluster to meet with legislators
Joseph, Louisiana. Other invited guest include State Senator Frances Thompson, State Representatives Andy Anders and Bubba Chaney, the State Director cor Community Block Grants and local mayors from the three ...
- Decision postponed for state takeover of schools
Four northeastern Louisiana schools will have to wait one month longer than expected to determine whether the state Department of Education will take over their programs.
- Algebra test scores raise red flag
Only two of every 10 students at Wossman High School passed the state's end-of-course algebra test last year, and 77 percent scored in the lowest range.
- Savage - Lancaster
Jody and Wanda Gail Savage of Delhi are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Suzanne Savage, to Luke Madden Lancaster, son of Mack and Martha Lancaster of Oak Grove.
- Lake Providence man charged with murder after body turns up at Uncle Darrell's Lounge
Louisiana State police arrested a Lake Providence man this morning for murder. Larry Brown Robinson, 37, was arrested at 177 Oak in Lake Providence and charged with the second-degree murder of Gerald King, 34, ...
- School performance scores released
School and district performance scores released by the Louisiana Department of Education Friday offered good and bad news for northeastern Louisiana.
- 6 indicted on murder charges resulting from Oct. 14 fire that killed 3 siblings
A West Carroll grand jury indicted six people today on three counts each of first-degree murder for their involvement in an Oct.
- Huey Long reincarnated
Two days after Huey Long was shot in September 1935 in that magnificent capitol building he built, a stones throw from the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, the Kingfish died.
- 6 murder charges lodged in Oak Grove arson case
A joint investigation into the deaths of three Oak Grove residents resulted in first-degree murder charges against six people, Louisiana State Police revealed today.
- Deaths
Barbara Jean Smith Akeroyd of Monroe, a retired Louisiana Downs manager, died Monday.
- Lake Providence party brings the '70s back
Even in a small town like Lake Providence, Anna Denny had no idea about the surprise her husband, Lee, had arranged for her milestone birthday.
- The 1849 cholera outbreak at Tarbert Plantation
SURVIVORS FELT 'WORN DOWN, HEART-SICK, MELANCHOLY AND GLOOMY' Along the 31st parellel in southern Wilkinson County below Fort Adams at the Mississippi-Louisiana border, a visitor stepped off a steamer at the ...
- Live and help live by word of God
It's hard to even think about recreational activities on our beautiful Lake Providence when it's been trying to creep in your back door.
- Great floods caused distress, destruction locally
WATER COVERED ALL THE LAND BETWEEN NATCHEZ AND THE CATAHOULA HILLS During the late 1700s and the first 50 years of the 19th Century there were more than a dozen major floods that caused death and great hardship ...
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City DescriptionLake Providence is a town in and the parish seat of East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 5,104 at the 2000 census.
Until 1962, no African Americans had been allowed to register to vote in Lake Providence. Then U.S. District Judge Edwin Ford Hunter, Jr., based in Lake Charles, the seat of Calcasieu Parish, personally registered some two dozen African American citizens under a provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
Lake Providence is located at 32°48′19″N 91°10′46″W / 32.80528, -91.17944 (32.805200, -91.179459).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.6 square miles (9.4 km²), of which, 3.6 square miles (9.3 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.55%) is water.
The existing boundaries of the town are the 3rd location of the community. Lake Providence is located adjacent to the Mississippi River; and prior to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers building the current levee system, the meandering river would overflow its bank and take valuable lands. It was during these movements that the lake of Lake Providence was created and the town succumbed to the river. Each time the town was taken by the ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- United States
- East Carroll Parish
- Louisiana
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