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After one of the strangest school years with hurricanes, snowstorms and COVID-19, Winn Parish will have 125 graduating seniors in 2021.

Atlanta High School had their graduation on Tuesday, May 18 and had 13 seniors graduate. Lindsay Grace Davidson was Valedictorian and Gracie Marie Simon was Salutatorian of the class.

Calvin High School’s graduation is on Thursday, May 20 at 7 p.m. and will have 21 graduates this school year. Anthony Arlin Adams, Josie Marie Camp, Grace Marie Caskey and Sydney Claire Ferguson are Valedictorians of the class and Alayna Kambre Martin is the Salutatorian.

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The House passed a bill 55-44 Tuesday to require any school bus entering the school system in 2023 or after to have seat belts for passengers.

Rep. Robby Carter, D-Amite, said he brought the bill because he knows that the state will not be able to appropriate the funds to require seat belts for passengers in all school buses retroactively.

Carter brought a successful bill in 2004 to require seat belts in school buses, but he did not find a way to fund that bill. Now, 17 years later, he hopes to pass legislation that will actually make the change he meant to make earlier in his career.

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The 2021 Calvin High School Baseball team finished the regular season as District 4-C Co-Champs and a record of 13-3.

Calvin received a bye in the first round of the playoffs due to their final state ranking of #4.

In the regional round, Calvin defeated #13 Kilbourne by a score of 23-4 to advance to the quarterfinals against #5 Downsville. Against Kilbourne, the Cougars were led in hitting by shortstop Wayne Curtis Huckaby who went 4-5, scored four runs and stole 8 bases on the day.

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Colonial Pipeline has returned its entire system to normal operations and is delivering millions of gallons of fuel each hour after a ransomware attack forced the company shut its network last Friday.

The cyberattack had forced the company to shut down approximately 5,500 miles of pipeline and triggered widespread fuel shortages in the Southeast and panic buying in some states.

Though the pipeline has returned to normal, many places in the U.S. are still experiencing gas shortages, with some states still have 80 percent of their gas stations without fuel.

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On May 6 Louisiana State Police Troop E responded to a twovehicle crash on U.S. 167 south of Louisiana Highway 505. This crash claimed the life of a juvenile passenger. The initial investigation revealed a 2007 Ford Fusion, driven by 24-year-old Elizabeth A. Ingram, of Jonesboro, was northbound on U.S. 167. For reasons still under investigation, Ingram failed to slow down as she approached a 2017 International commercial vehicle, which resulted in a rear-end collision.

Ingram, who was unrestrained, sustained moderate injuries and was transported to a local hospital for treatment. Ingram’s juvenile passenger, who also was unrestrained, sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. The commercial vehicle driver was not injured. A toxicology sample was obtained and submitted for analysis. The crash remains under investigation.

The City of Winnfield is holding a City-Wide Cleanest City Trash Can Contest as part of their efforts to clean up the city.

This comes after their “We Can’t Afford the Be Trashy” campaign where they were to host a volunteer city wide clean-up, but sadly was cancelled until a later date due to weather.

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Practical Nursing Class 33 of the Central Louisiana Technical Community College, Huey P. Long Campus will be honored with a pinning ceremony at the CLTCC Huey P. Long Campus at 2:00 PM on May 14th, 2021.

Those being pinned are: Kailey Porter Ashton Brinkley Konni Shell, Brock Domangue, Kasey Patton. Melissa Mixon, Casey Hall, Victoria Wise and Alexis Fredieu.

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Albert “Bodie” Little was arrested on May 6 for trespassing on a woman’s property.

“We received a complaint from the homeowner that he was trespassing on her property several times,” Sheriff Cranford Jordan said. “The homeowner asked him several times to stop trespassing.”

After the complaint the Winn Parish Sheriff ’s Office received a warrant for the former sheriff.

Little served the parish as Louisiana highway patrolman, the parish treasurer, and was finally elected sheriff.

The former sheriff was sentenced to prison for 13 years previously for distribution and conspiracy to sell drugs.

The case remains open, and Little has been released on bond.

The Winnfield Senior High School Track and Field team have been busy with competitions at the regional and state level, and took home one gold medal at the state competition.

On May 6, Winnfield Senior High School State Qualifiers Jamar Spears, McKelvey Rhone, Keithan Hamilton, William Glover and Desmond Duncan took to Baton Rouge to compete with District 2A schools from across Louisiana.

WSHS finished eighth in the state as a group and Desmond Duncan won the gold in the 400m with a time of 50.81 and third in the 800m with a time of 2:02 and William Glover won third in the 100m dash with a time of 10.86 and fourth in the 200m with a time of 22.13.

Spears, Glover, Hamilton and Rhone placed sixth in the 4x100.

The trial of Lance Gardner over the accused murder of Winnfield family pet, Kara a golden retriever, receives a shake-up as Winnfield DA Chris Nevils and District Court Judge Anastasia Wiley recused themselves from the case and handed it off to the Attorney General’s office in April.

Assistant Attorney General Winston White, part of the Criminal Division, has been given the reigns of the case.

“I recused myself due to some LLC work I had done for Gardener,” Nevils said. “I’d have liked to see it through, but I have a lot of faith in the assistant attorney general. A lot of times they give it to some guy fresh out of college, but they put their best people on this one.”

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