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The new parking lot across from the Winn Parish Courthouse had an official ribbon-cutting last week, where various representatives from the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and local government were in attendance. The parking lot, which has been available for use since Sept., is the first of its kind in the state of Louisiana. Made of a special material called pervious concrete, its purpose is to eliminate storm water runoff and to provide storm water pollution prevention. 

 

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Winn Parish Fire District #3 held their last meeting of 2014 as a special called meeting that introduced new board members and elected officers followed a public hearing on the proposed 2015 budget.

 

 

Retail sales in Winn Parish have seen a slight uptick through November of this year, and the parish will almost certainly see an increase in sales from 2013. Sales tax numbers released by the Winn Parish School Board show that the 2% sales tax collected by the board in the first 11 months of this year totals $3,584,698.05, which equals sales tax revenue of $179,234,902.50

Winnfield City Police and Firemen banded together this  weekend to help give a few kids a Merry Christmas. The Winnfield Police and Fire Department took 50 youngsters to Wal-Mart on Saturday and gave them $100 to spend on Christmas presents for themselves or members of their families

An escaped convict from the Winn Correctional Center was apprehended by the Winn Parish Sheriff’s Office on Sunday evening. The Winn Parish Sheriff’s Office received a call from the correctional center at about 4:34 p.m. that a convict had

possibly escaped from the facility