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The Long’s have become synonymous with not only Winnfield, but Louisiana as a whole.

The Louisiana Political Museum was created in 1987 because of the affect the Long’s had on Louisiana politics, and after the death of Earl K. Long in 1960, his body was buried in the Earl K. Long Memorial Park, and since then a statue was put into the park as an attraction and memorial for the iconic figure.

Lately, however, residents of Winnfield have voiced their displeasure with how the park has been treated.

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The Winnfield Middle School was hit the hardest out of all the schools during hurricane Laura last year, but is now up and running with it’s students back into the building.

After the hurricane, much of the building was infested with mold, and the seventh and eight graders had to relocate to the Winnfield Senior High School, due to their area being unsafe to be in.

“In all it costs about $1.6 million to fix the damages,” Mark Maxwell Maintenance Manager of the schools said. “But we had the Cadillac of insurances, and we only had a $100,000 deductible, and a lot of that was paid off with grants and other funding.”

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Winnfield Senior High School Football Season Tickets will go on sale tomorrow, Aug. 12.

The season ticket holders can be purchase the tickets in the main office of Winnfield Senior High School from Aug. 12-25.

On Aug. 26 the remaining tickets will go on sale to the general public.

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Renovations of Winn Parish school systems are nearly complete after the devastation that Hurricane Laura brought up the parish.

All the schools suffered some damages one way or another, with all of them needing new roofs, and many of them needing interior work due to water damage that was deemed unsafe, with Winnfield Middle School seeing the worst damage and having the 7^th and 8^th graders transfer to the Winnfield Senior High School building to finish their school year due to excessive water damage.

The Winn Parish Enterprise is proud to announce the grand prize winner of our Win in Winn giveaway. Terri Hanson took home her recliner after winning her second prize.

Chris Scannell was our fourth and last weekly prize winner.

Our other prize winners were Terri Hanson, Rodney Shelton and Phyllis Weeks.

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Winn Parish returned back to school this week, and with it COVID-19 has returned back with the new contagious and more deadly Delta variant.

Gov. John Bel Edwards reinstated a state-wide mask mandate on Aug. 2 hat will last until next month, which includes all students from Kindergarten to grade 12 to wear mask while at school, which has caused a heated debate in the parish and the state.

“At this point the issue is not what is my opinion or what is that of our board members,” Superintendent Alfred Simmons said. “Rather the issue is wheter the district must follow the governor’s mandates.

The governor also pointed out that the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) and local health officials recommend that mask be worn in schools.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Friday said he is “seriously considering” the reinstatement of a statewide face mask mandate as his state leads the country for new COVID-19 case growth per capita and is among the least vaccinated states in the nation.

“At this point, it’s not whether we vaccinate or mask. We have to do both,” Edwards said in a news conference. “When the facts change and you learn new things, you have to change your approach. You can’t keep doing the same thing and just hope for a better outcome.”

In May, Edwards lifted his state’s face mask mandate, saying most fully vaccinated residents no longer have to wear them indoors as access to vaccinations expanded. But last week, the governor, along with the Louisiana Department of Health, amended mask guidelines and asked both vaccinated and unvaccinated residents to wear face masks indoors amid the case surge.

The first annual Field Day of Winnfield was on July 31 and was a big success.

Childhood friends and entrepreneurs Keundric Dooley, Zan Johnson and Donald Alexander are natives of Winnfield who returned home from Atlanta, Georgia to host a field day open to the public.

The field day consisted of a 30 minute workout akin to what you’d get from their business in Atlanta, E.F.F.E.C.T. FITNESS, a backpack giveaway to children of the parish and a softball tournament.

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The Winn Parish Enterprise is proud to announce our Third winner of the giveaway, Phyllis Weeks!

Our first and second weekly prize winners were Terri Hanson and Rodney Shelton.

Be sure to enter the giveaway for one more weekly prize and our grand prize, a recliner this week. All entries throughout the weeks have gone into the basket for the recliner. Our next giveaway will be next Friday, August 6.

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Winnfield native Marcus Jones has taken the helm at NSU as its interim president after 23 years at the university.

Born one of 20 children in Winnfield, Marcus started working on a quarter horse farm at the young age of 11. The farm’s owner, Leo Shelton, also owned a pharmacy in town and his wife Dorothy was a teacher. With a strong foundation at home from his parents, John and Eloise Jones, and encouragement from the Sheltons, Marcus quickly developed a love for education and an understanding of its importance as a means to advance economically and to pave the way to a better life.

After graduating from Winnfield High School Marcus came to Northwestern on a scholarship to major in business administration with an emphasis in finance. He signed up for the Federal Work-Study Program, where he was assigned a job in the computer center in St. Denis Hall.