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Governor John Bel Edwards announced on February 18that Louisiana will begin vaccinating early childhood center workers and K-12 educators and support staff Monday. State Superintendent of Education Dr. Cade Brumley released the following statement in support of the Governor’s decision.

“I’m grateful and relieved to know our early childhood workers, as well as k-12 educators and school staff, now have access to this vaccine. This signifies the value of our essential employees and will enable even more Louisiana centers and schools to be fully open to serve students, families and communities. I extend my thanks to Governor Edwards, the Louisiana Department of Health and our state’s medical professionals for working alongside us throughout this pandemic and for making our educational community a priority. Although not perfect, Louisiana has managed to maintain an early childcare system and a k-12 educational program throughout this pandemic.”

The Atlanta Baptist Church ablaze on Feb. 17. Winn Parish Fire District 3 (WPFD), Winnfield Fire Department (WFD), Winn Parish Sheriff’s Office and Atlanta PD all responded to the fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation by the State Fire Marshall’s office.

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The 8th Judicial District Court will be closed Wednesday, February 17, Thursday, February 18, and Friday, February 19. We will reopen on Monday, February 22.

Anytime a loved one dies most families are still stunned even after health professionals have delivered dismal news of pending death. This can be doubly devastating when families are dealing with back to back deaths.

No matter how much you’ve been instructed to grieve, many agree it’s easier said than done when trying to be strong for everyone else. That’s what leaders including Pastors experience on a regular basis.

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You Never Know Store Ribbon Cutting was held at noon on Friday, February 12. 

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On Wednesday February 10, the Winn Correctional Center suffered a blackout caused by damages to equipment by a lightning strike, according to Sherriff Cranford Jordan.

15 electricians worked on restoring power, but due to the ice storm weather threat, plans had to be made to move all 300+ prisoners that the correctional center holds, after it was clear restoration to the site wouldn’t be done in time.

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The Winn Parish Sheriff ’s Office is seeking assistance in identifying three individuals in relation to a theft at Walmart for over $2,200. They are white male subjects, and may be in a white Crown Victoria with after-market wheels and a mid-90s model Ford F-150 or F-250, dark in color, with after-market fog lights, blue headlight bulbs, cab lights, and chrome fenders.

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An 8-month long disturbing joint investigation by the Natchitoches Parish Sheriff ’s Office Criminal Investigations Division, Natchitoches Parish Sheriff ’s Office High Tech Crime Unit, Rapides Parish Sheriff ’s Office, Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations, Rapides Parish Sheriff ’s Office, US Postal Service, Bossier City Marshal Office NWLA-ICAC Task Force, Natchitoches Parish District Attorney’s Office and Natchitoches Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force has led to the arrest of a Natchitoches man on multiple felony charges ranging from child pornography, narcotics, theft, identity theft and others according to Natchitoches Parish Sheriff Stuart Wright.

The investigation began back in May of 2020 when Rapides Parish Sheriff ’s Deputies contacted the NPSO Criminal Investigations Division reporting that they had arrested 33-year-old Christopher Aaron Stanfield of Natchitoches on narcotics, weapon and property offenses.

It was a scary and dangerous February, 1 for the Winnfield Fire Dept. Early in the morning, fire fighters responded to a mobile home residential fire on Lennox Ave.

Off duty fire fighters arrived to find fire and smoke coming from the rear of the home. It was at this time fire fighters noticed a neighbor screaming that a woman and her two infant children were inside.

Fire fighters then observed a woman at the back door with fire and smoke around her holding her two children screaming for help.

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This week, 378 vaccine providers across the state will receive very limited doses of COVID vaccine. These providers — including 112 chain pharmacies, 127 independent pharmacies, 52 hospitals, 15 community health centers (including 13 federally qualified health centers, or FQHCs), 6 rural health clinics (RHCs), 28 public health providers and 38 other healthcare sites — represent all nine public health regions and 64 parishes of the state.

LDH has published the list of participating providers, along with their locations and contact information, on its website: covidvaccine.la.gov. In addition, residents can call 211 to find a vaccine provider near them.

Future distribution is dependent on vaccine made available to the state, among other factors. To stress, there is no guarantee that providers receiving vaccine this week will receive vaccine in the future.