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It was a lengthy agenda and meeting for the Minden City Council on Monday, as well as a good bit of tension. Before the meeting began, the council voted to add two items on the agenda, the first was to give the City Clerk authority to advertise for bids for the construction of a new […]
After not holding a pageant in 2021, the Young Women’s Service Club of Minden announced that the Miss Minden Pageant will resume in 2022, at a new location. This year, the pageants will be held at Minden High School’s auditorium. The Miss Minden/Spirit of Fasching Pageant will be held Saturday, January 15, 2022 beginning at […]
SHREVEPORT, La. – The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development announces a project to provide major repairs to a heavily traveled section of I-20 in Bossier City, as well as additional repairs along the I-20 corridor in Shreveport. The project went to bid on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, with an apparent low bid of $82,564,848.20. The […]
Wednesday morning, Minden Mayor Terry Gardner announced a change in the Light and Water Department for the City of Minden. According to an emailed press release, a recent retirement in the department has caused a change to hours of operation to account for the loss of staffing. According to Gardner, the position will not be […]
A meeting with Minden Mayor, Terry Gardner, City Councilman (A) Wayne Edwards, and Acting City Clerk, Michael Fluhr on October 12th gives hope that there might finally be some progress made to adopting the City of Minden budget for 2021/22. The meeting was set in motion by Fluhr, who invited Councilmen Wayne Edwards, Vincen Bradford […]
Councilman Michael Roy, Chairperson, for National Night Out, along with Mayor Terry L. Gardner, Police Chief Steve Cropper and the other members of the City Council, invite neighborhoods city-wide to support the theme, “Give Neighborhood Crime & Drugs A Going Away Party”. Neighborhoods throughout the City of Minden are being invited to join forces with […]
While I posted Nerd Notes: Homecoming Edition, earlier this morning, we have a bonus edition that will be fun to look through as well. While I am a co-collector and keeper of the Minden High Football stats, the lion’s share of that work goes to my tag-team partner on Friday nights and Minden’s reigning Man […]
It’s the biggest home game of the season tonight as the Crimson Tide hosts the 89th annual Homecoming game. This year’s homecoming is bigger than in previous years. Due to Covid-19 protocols last year, the classes of 1950, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000, and 2010 were not recognized on the field and will be this […]
The Webster Parish Police Jury held its monthly meeting on Tuesday. The jury sat as a board of review for the 2021 assessment of property in Webster Parish. The Jury heard from Webster Parish Assessor, Denise Edwards, who informed the Jury that there were four protests against the 2021 Parish tax roll. All four protests […]
RETIREMENT: Richard Daniels, Maintenance, Webster Parish School Board, effective September 28, 2021. Rickey Jackson, 10-Month 8-Hour Custodian, North Webster High School, effective August 16, 2021. RESIGNATION Aniruddha Acharya, Teacher, North Webster High School, effective August 20, 2021. Tiki Burns, Food Service technician, Phillips Elementary, effective August 9, 2021. Michelle McLain, Food Service Technician, Brown Upper […]