Dr. Granger provides his insight regarding US foreign policy and the recent Congressional acts supporting Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
Utility Rates, Crime and Water Quality are the issues Lee Posey is hearing from the citizens of Natchitoches as the Mayor’s race concludes this Saturday April 27th.
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Greg Burke seeks your vote for a new direction for Natchitoches as your Councilman at Large
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Early Voting for the April 27, 2024 Election as of the Close-Of-Business on Saturday, April 13, 2024
Total City of Natchitoches Voters (Excludes Parish Voters)
| TOTALS | In Person | Mail In |
| 855 | 826 | 29 |
| WHITE | BLACK | OTHER |
| 312 | 522 | 21 |
Greg Burke asks for your vote in the run off election scheduled for April 27. Early voting starts this Saturday April 13 and runs through April 20th.
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Coach McCorkle discusses the roster, the QB position, the transfer portal and next year’s challenging schedule
Photo: Courtesy of Northwestern State University
By Kevin Shannahan
This Easter season, like most before it, will feature egg hunts, new clothes, candy and family. While not entirely frivolous, Easter is more chocolate bunny than a serious observance in modern society. This piece is about an Easter service in a world far removed and almost inconceivable to citizens in a free society, that of a Nazi concentration camp.
Dachau was the first concentration camp built by Nazi Germany as well as the one in operation for the longest time. It was opened by Heinrich Himmler in March of 1933. At its liberation by the United States’ Army on the 29th of April,1945, it had been in operation for almost the entire span of Nazi Germany’s wretched existence. It was not the largest concentration camp, nor was it as deadly as places like Auschwitz or Treblinka. It was the first camp to open. Dachau served as a template for the other camps. Rudolph Hoss, the commandant of Auschwitz, served at Dachau first. Guards for the whole camp system were trained there. Dachau was started as a camp for German political prisoners, after Kristallnacht in 1938, over 10,000 Jews were interned in the camp. During its existence, prisoners arrived from all of the lands the Nazi’s conquered. Prisoners lived in constant fear of deadly and sadistic punishments.
Seventy four years ago soldiers from the US Army’s 42nd Division and 45th Divisions liberated Dachau. They encountered a scene of suffering that staggers the imagination. The camp was severely overcrowded. As the Nazis were forced further and further back by Allied armies, prisoners were transferred to camps in the German interior. Dachau, near Munich, was one such camp. Overcrowding, cold and lack of sanitation combined with starvation, bred disease. Typhus ran rampant. Many of the newly liberated prisoners were to die before help could be brought to them due to the sheer numbers of people at the camp.
This was the background for one of the most unique Easter services ever held. Dachau held a large population of priests and clergy. The Orthodox calendar is different from that used in the West. The concentration camp was liberated just before Orthodox Easter. In the Orthodox calendar, Easter fell on what would be the 6th of May of 1945. There was a group of Serbian and Greek Orthodox priests and deacons who wanted to celebrate Mass on Easter. Half starved, ridden with lice, owning nothing but their filthy camp uniforms, having survived the Hell of Nazi tyranny, they gathered together to celebrate the risen Christ. They wore vestments fashioned from bedsheets taken from the SS guards’ barracks. The crosses on them were taken from the SS medical orderlies’ armbands. There were no missals. They sang the Orthodox service from memory. In the words of Gleb Alexandrovitch Rahr, one of the prisoners who attended the service:
“…In the entire history of the Orthodox Church there has probably never been an Easter service like the one at Dachau in 1945. Greek and Serbian priests together with a Serbian deacon adorned the make-shift “vestments” over their blue and gray-striped prisoners uniforms. Then they began to chant, changing from Greek to Slavonic, and then back again to Greek. The Easter Canon, the Easter Sticheras – everything was recited from memory. The Gospel – “In the beginning was the Word” – also from memory.
And finally, the Homily of Saint John Chrysostom – also from memory. A young Greek monk from the Holy Mountain stood up in front of us and recited it with such infectious enthusiasm that we shall never forget him as long as we live. Saint John Chrysostomos himself seemed to speak through him to us and to the rest of the world as well! Eighteen Orthodox priests and one deacon – most of whom were Serbs, participated in this unforgettable service. Like the sick man who had been lowered through the roof of a house and placed in front of the feet of Christ the Saviour, the Greek Archimandrite Meletios was carried on a stretcher into the chapel, where he remained prostrate for the duration of the service…”
On May 6th, 1945, Adolf Hitler lay dead. Berlin and the rest of Nazi Germany lay in ruins. Germany would unconditionally surrender the next day. In a prison barracks in Dachau a group of men celebrated the risen Lord. It was an Easter to remember.
Natchitoches Central hires Brad Laird as the new Head Coach for the Chief’s Football program.
As Election Day nears (Saturday), Lee Posey joins Billy West to address the issue facing the City of Natchitoches.
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Former NSU athletics director Greg Burke joins Billy West Live and outlines his vision for how to lead Natchitoches into the future and address the crime issues head on as well as his thoughts on the utility rate increases and infrastructure
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Billy West:
Welcome back everyone to another edition of Billy West Live.
It’s a pleasure to welcome back to the program former Mayor Lee Posey and candidate for Mayor of Natchitoches who reached out to me to address a couple of issues that are swirling in the campaign. We would certainly welcome Mayor Ronnie Williams to address these issues as well.
Lee, welcome back to the program. I know you wanted to address a couple of points.
Lee Posey: Thank you Billy for having me on. I appreciate it.
My name is Lee Posey and I’m asking for your vote for Mayor of Natchitoches. I want to address this message directly to the members of the Natchitoches Police force and the members of the Natchitoches Fire Department. It has come to my attention that there is a concern that there may be an effort to rescind any pay raise that you may have received as a result of the utility rate increase. My pledge to you is that; should the utility rate increase be rescinded that your raises will be protected.
Billy West: and Lee as you go around town and you talk to folks about issues that are important to the citizens, I know that there are things about the utility rate increases that are of real concern for the citizens of Natchitoches, and I wanted to give you an opportunity as I said for you to address that issue.
Lee Posey: Very much so, Billy.
I am running for Mayor and I am concerned about the burden this administration has placed on the citizens of Natchitoches due to the utility rate increases. Another rate increase is due to hit the citizens of Natchitoches in May. If elected as your Mayor I will seek to rescind these irresponsible utility rate increases.
Again, I am Lee Posey and I am running for Mayor of Natchitoches and I am asking for your vote.
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Dennie Boyt asks for your vote and talks about the issues he is hearing most about on the campaign trail
Mr. Byonne talks about the higher utility rates and his thoughts on how to address that issue and the rising crime rate in the City of Natchitoches
Coach Curtis talks about his decision to leave Natchitoches Central after just one year and that his reasons for leaving were personal in nature.
The Parish of Natchitoches Road Department worked on the following jobs for the month of February.
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Lee Posey joins Billy West regarding Crime, Water and Electrical Rates
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Notice is hereby given that the Natchitoches Parish School Board Child Nutrition Department will receive sealed bids as follows:
Monday, March 4, 2024, 2:00 p.m. – NPSB Warehouse Freezer/Cooler Bid# 2024:1
Bids will be accepted until the dates and times specified and will be publicly opened and read aloud at those times in the School Board’s Central Office, 310 Royal Street, Natchitoches, Louisiana 71457. Please find bid-related documents and place electronic bids at www.centralbidding.com. For questions relating to the electronic bidding process, please call Central Bidding at 225-810-4814. Bids received after the date and times of opening will not be considered. Additional information may be obtained upon request by contacting Shauna Hicks, District Supervisor, at 318-352-3438, between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Bids may be mailed in or dropped off at 310 Royal Street address. The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Please See Attached/Download below.
/s/ Lee Waskom
Director of Business Affairs
/s/ Grant Eloi
Grant Eloi, Secretary-Treasurer Natchitoches Parish School Board
2/8, 2/14, 2/29
Notice is hereby given that the Natchitoches Parish School Board Child Nutrition Department will receive sealed bids as follows:
Monday, March 4, 2024, 2:00 p.m. – NPSB Warehouse Generator Bid# 2024:2
Bids will be accepted until the dates and times specified and will be publicly opened and read aloud at those times in the School Board’s Central Office, 310 Royal Street, Natchitoches, Louisiana 71457. Please find bid-related documents and place electronic bids at www.centralbidding.com. For questions relating to the electronic bidding process, please call Central Bidding at 225-810-4814. Bids received after the date and times of opening will not be considered. Additional information may be obtained upon request by contacting Shauna Hicks, District Supervisor, at 318-352-3438, between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Bids may be mailed in or dropped off at 310 Royal Street address. The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Please See Attached/Download below.
/s/ Lee Waskom
Director of Business Affairs
/s/ Grant Eloi
Grant Eloi, Secretary-Treasurer Natchitoches Parish School Board
2/8, 2/14, 2/29
Notice is hereby given that the Natchitoches Parish School Board Child Nutrition Department will receive sealed bids as follows:
Monday, March 4, 2024, 2:00 p.m. – NPSB Warehouse Generator Bid# 2024:2
Bids will be accepted until the dates and times specified and will be publicly opened and read aloud at those times in the School Board’s Central Office, 310 Royal Street, Natchitoches, Louisiana 71457. Please find bid-related documents and place electronic bids at www.centralbidding.com. For questions relating to the electronic bidding process, please call Central Bidding at 225-810-4814. Bids received after the date and times of opening will not be considered. Additional information may be obtained upon request by contacting Shauna Hicks, District Supervisor, at 318-352-3438, between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Bids may be mailed in or dropped off at 310 Royal Street address. The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Please See Attached/Download below.
/s/ Lee Waskom
Director of Business Affairs
/s/ Grant Eloi
Grant Eloi, Secretary-Treasurer Natchitoches Parish School Board
2/8, 2/14, 2/29
Notice is hereby given that the Natchitoches Parish School Board Child Nutrition Department will receive sealed bids as follows:
Monday, March 4, 2024, 2:00 p.m. – NPSB Warehouse Freezer/Cooler Bid# 2024:1
Bids will be accepted until the dates and times specified and will be publicly opened and read aloud at those times in the School Board’s Central Office, 310 Royal Street, Natchitoches, Louisiana 71457. Please find bid-related documents and place electronic bids at www.centralbidding.com. For questions relating to the electronic bidding process, please call Central Bidding at 225-810-4814. Bids received after the date and times of opening will not be considered. Additional information may be obtained upon request by contacting Shauna Hicks, District Supervisor, at 318-352-3438, between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Bids may be mailed in or dropped off at 310 Royal Street address. The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Please See Attached/Download below.
/s/ Lee Waskom
Director of Business Affairs
/s/ Grant Eloi
Grant Eloi, Secretary-Treasurer Natchitoches Parish School Board
2/8, 2/14, 2/29