Leesville Daily Leader

12/11/2025

By Ashlyn Little During Monday’s Leesville City Council meeting, Anacoco Mayor Keith Lewing and Anacoco Chief of Police Mike O’ Toole presented Leesville Police Chief Beth Westlake with a plaque in honor of her retiring after 30 years of serving the city. “Today I’m here for the chief that i...

12/11/2025

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12/03/2025

By Ashlyn Little The city of Leesville will be hosting its second annual Jingle and Mingle 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday at the Leesville Event Center. Attendees will get to shop the merry market, visit with Santa Claus and sip hot chocolate. Christmas movies will also be playing inside. Aside from a fee....

11/20/2025

By Ashlyn Little The Vernon Parish Police Jury voted unanimously this week to rescind two resolutions approved during their September meeting supporting carbon capture sequestration after receiving overwhelming public opposition. “You want to do the right thing for the parish and for the citizens ...

11/13/2025

Special to the Leesville Leader Community members recently gathered at Dogwood Park to celebrate the installation of nine new fitness signs, a collaborative project between the Pilot Club of Leesville and local LSU AgCenter Extension Agent. The signs are designed to encourage physical activity and p...

11/06/2025

Logan Oscar Morris and Jeremy M. Draper claim in their lawsuit that the city, the council and Mayor Rick Allen have intentionally treated them differently due to their public status as married.

By Ashlyn Little The city of Leesville, Leesville City Council and Mayor Rick Allen are being sued for discriminatory gerrymandering and constitutional violations. Logan Oscar Morris, Jeremy M. Draper, and Wellfit Medicine and Nutrition claim that on three separate occasions their request to annex t...

10/23/2025

By Ashlyn Little “The wolf is at your door. What are you going to do about it?” Col. Mark Guillory, director of the Save My Louisiana Advisory Council, asked attendees of Monday night’s carbon capture and storage informational meeting in Leesville. The meeting room was packed with concerned re...

10/16/2025

By Alton Wallace | The Center Square Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, while citing the economic potential of carbon capture and sequestration, on Wednesday ordered a moratorium on approvals of new Class VI injection wells and mandated that state agencies and departments work together to develop procedure...

09/11/2025

“We saw some teachers in the hallways and just had a feeling something was wrong,” Casey Sullivan-Flood said. “Then there was an announcement over the intercom that if we had a parent or parents who worked in New York City that we needed to report to the guidance counselor’s office.”

By Doris Maricle Casey Sullivan-Flood, a paramedic and recruiter with Acadian Ambulance, was an eighth-grader in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, when the planes struck the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Like many, the tragic events of that day and the feelings of helplessness that followed deeply impacte...

09/11/2025

By Ashlyn Little The Leesville City Council held its regular meeting on Monday with Mayor Rick Allen and Councilwoman Nicole Ybarra absent. During the meeting, the new city’s new golf course manager, Loni Hess, was introduced. Hess has been manager of the golf course since the beginning of August....

08/29/2025

Lisa Banados will be hosting the Christian- and inspirational-based meetings every Monday at 6 p.m. starting on Sept. 8 for 12 weeks. The meetings will be held at Motion Church at 1204 S. 5th St. in Leesville.

By Ashlyn Little Leesville residents of all ages will soon have a new Life Group and Book Club to attend. Lisa Banados will be hosting the Christian- and inspirational-based meetings every Monday at 6 p.m. starting on Sept. 8 for 12 weeks. The meetings will be held at Motion Church at 1204 S. 5th St...

08/21/2025

Special to the Leesville Leader To promote art in schools, each of the 435 members of the House have chosen artwork from submissions from their constituents to decorate the tunnel that connects representatives’ offices with the U.S. Capitol. The six members of Louisiana’s House delegation recent...