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4HU First Place Winners Ella Higginbotham and Catherine Page will be guest servers on August 21 at the Pea Patch in Winnfield. They will be serving their winning recipe for lunch from 11am – 1:30pm.

Sec. 24-35. Vehicles prohibited except by permit.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation, or entity to operate a vehicle or combination of vehicles having a total gross weight in excess of 20 tons on parish roads and bridges maintained by the parish without first obtaining a permit from the police jury.

(b) The permit shall be issued by either the parish highway department or the main office, if, in the exercise of their discretion, they determine that the applicant should have a permit. The departments shall consider the following factors in the issuance of the permit, as well as any other circumstances existing in the particular case: (1) There is an economic necessity for the permit; (2) There exists a necessity of transportation by public roads; or (3) The departments consider that the best interest of the parish requires the issuance of the permit.

(c) The permit shall be issued by either department at no cost.

The recreational department has given out the registration forms to all Winn Parish schools. Make sure to check your child’s backpack for the registration form!

The age groups are: 4-6, 7-9, 10-11-12 The cost per player will be $ 40.00 and due no later than Friday, September 12th.

There will be NO. sign-ups on tryout day!! NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

You must have your registration form and fees paid by Friday, September 12th for your child to participate in the tryouts on September 13th• The Grove St. Gym will be open until 8 p.m. daily, to accommodate everyone that needs to pay later in the day. The season will go from Oct-Nov. The dates of the games will be announced the week after tryouts.

The Winn Parish Sheriff ’s Office prepared for students to return to school this past week. Resource officers were assigned to each school within the Parish.

The Winn Parish School Board has announced that all enrolled students will receive free breakfast and lunch every school day during the 20252026 academic year through the district’s participation in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). All students will be served lunch and breakfast at no charge at the following sites: Calvin High School Dodson High School Winnfield Primary School Winnfield Middle School Winnfield Senior High School For additional information please contact: Winn Parish School Board Attention: Veronica Hardaway, CNP Supervisor 304 East Court Street, Winnfield, LA 71483, (318)628-6936, vhardaway@ winnpsb.us.

Beverly Taylor, Principal at Magnolia Bend Academy, spoke to the Kiwanis club, Tuesday, July 29th.

In the summer of 2023 when the Atlanta school was closed people in the community approached Sardis Baptist church about maybe having a school. The members of Sardis agreed and Beverly Taylor agreed to be the principal. Magnolia Bend Academy has several different campuses and is an approved home-study program. They use Abeka which is Back to Basics reading, writing and arithmetic in a Christian setting. History and science are taught with a Biblical basis. Their goal is sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Bible is taught daily and Mrs. Taylor teaches some of the Bible classes.

On June 30, 2025, investigators with the Winn Parish Sheriff ’s Office arrested Raina King on one count of Identity Theft and on July 30, 2025, arrested on five additional counts of Identity Thefts.

The investigation began on June 28, 2025, when a victim reported to the sheriff ’s office fraudulent bank transactions. On July 3, 2025, a local financial institution also reported to WPSO detectives possible fraudulent transactions on multiple customer accounts. Sheriff ’s investigators traced the suspicious activity back to Raina King, an employee at a local business.

Video evidence showed King photographing customers’ credit cards and PIN numbers, which were allegedly used to make unauthorized purchases. Based on the evidence collected, i n v e s t i g a t o r s obtained an arrest warrant for King, as well as a search warrant for her cell phones.