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Baton Rouge—A study by the Economics and Policy Research Group at the E. J. Ourso College of Business has determined LSU’s economic impact on DeSoto Parish to be $9,137,644.

The study, released in February, is the first to calculate the collective economic impact of all eight LSU campuses – LSU, the LSU AgCenter, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, LSU-Alexandria, LSU-Eunice, LSU-Shreveport, and the LSU Health Sciences Centers in Shreveport and New Orleans – at the parish level. Statewide, LSU has an impact of $5.1 billion.

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At around 12:35 p.m. on Monday, June 4, DeSoto Parish Sheriff’s Office Dispatch received a call from DeSoto 911 in regards to a possible accidental drowning at the Riverfront in Logansport.

Deputies arrived at the scene and spoke with several friends who had been swimming together at the time of the incident.

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The City of Mansfield’s meeting on May 29 featured several agenda items, including confirming a permanent fire chief’s appointment, receiving audit results and approving an ordinance and a change-order recommendation.

During the meeting, city council approved the confirmation of Fire Chief LaTarsha R. Shelton’s appointment from interim status to part-time status with the Mansfield Fire Department.

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The DeSoto Parish Sheriff’s Office has offered the DeSoto Parish Police Jury a proposition to move their satellite offices into a new space housed in a Stonewall facility they are building. After discussion and flushing out details about the offer, the jury voted against accepting the offer.

DPSO has already purchased seven acres of land in Stonewall to build the new substation facility. During the Police Jury’s committee meeting on June 4, Interim Sheriff Jayson Richardson offered the Police Jury office space inside of the facility in hopes to make the facility a government center for Stonewall. DPSO has also already offered space in the facility to the Town of Stonewall. They also have plans to build a radio tower for emergency service communication behind the facility.

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Renetta Humphries held a grand opening on May 31 for her new business, Edith Ernestine Vintage Lifestyle Store. During the grand opening, DeSoto Parish Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for the new business. 

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The Ladies Auxiliary of Fire District 9 has been holding forums for almost 20 years. Each election, they hold a political forum for candidates in the Frierson area to speak and answer questions. After an election, the auxiliary holds a community forum and invites the elected officials back to discuss their accomplishments since being elected and to answer community members’ questions. The Ladies Auxiliary held their latest forum on May 26 in the Frierson Baptist Church’s Fellowship Hall. The forum featured Representative Larry Bagley,

State Senator John Milkovich, Police Jury President Reggie Roe, Fire Chief Bobby Hayes, Interim Sheriff Jayson Richardson and Superintendent Clay Corley. Two officials—U. S. Representative Mike Johnson and Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell—were unable to make the forum. They sent a representative in their place.

The 16th Legislature of Louisiana created DeSoto Parish in 1843 out of portions of Caddo, Natchitoches and Sabine Parishes. This June, DeSoto Parish celebrates its 175th anniversary of becoming a parish. To commemorate the milestone, local history buff Raymond Powell is donating revised copies of a history book he wrote for the parish’s 150th anniversary. Powell created the history book so students could learn about DeSoto Parish’s history, which was something that they were not taught in class.

To make the book, Powell gathered information he had collected and learned about over the years. He published the book in 1993 and gave each of the schools a copy of it. Powell spoke about the parish’s upcoming 175th anniversary during the DeSoto Chamber of Commerce’s May meeting. After hearing Powell mention the book he published for the parish’s previous milestone anniversary, newly elected superintendent Clay Corley talked to Powell about re-releasing his book