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04/07/2025

Trey Phillips continues his Paris adventures with a stay at a quirky Paris hotel and a stroll around an outdoor market chock full of anything you might want. Read for FREE

Last time, I wrote about enjoying a walk to the Bastille Circle in Paris and along the Coulee Verte Rene-Dumont, marveling at the abandoned elevated rail bed that’s been repurposed into a beautifully landscaped public greenway.

03/08/2025

Part 3 of Trey Phillips's European travel adventures is live! He takes us on a relaxing walk along a repurposed elevated railway in Paris. Access it for free on our website by clicking this link.

Editor’s note: East Carroll Banner has a new feature – a travelogue, written by Trey Phillips, who grew up in Lake Providence. Find all his stories here.Beyond Bunches Bend - Part 1Beyond Bunches Bend - Part 2Beyond Bunches Bend - Part 3

01/24/2025

East Carroll STEM kids! Looks like a blast! Get it? A blast? Like a blast of air? Oh, well, we try. Congrats to East Carroll 4-h students

01/23/2025

Sorry for the delay! It's here! The next installment of Trey Phillips' European journey - solo and without reservations. Access the the story for FREE at eastcarrollbanner.com

Beyond Bunches Bend By Trey Phillips - One in a series - Last time, I wrote about boarding the train in Strasbourg bound for Reims, France. As I mentioned, I knew nothing about Reims (pronounced like “France” but without the F).

01/02/2025

Take a trip to Europe from the comfort of your home by reading the Banner's new regular feature - a travelogue shared by East Carroll native Trey Phillips. It's free to access online at www.eastcarrollbanner.com. The first in the series appears in the January 2 edition. The online story has additional pictures not available in the paper edition. Enjoy!!

Editor’s note: East Carroll Banner is starting a new feature in this issue – a travelogue, written by Trey Phillips, who grew up in Lake Providence and has worked as a lawyer for 33 years in solo private practice and in public service roles.

12/19/2024

The Banner's Christmas edition is in mailboxes and email feeds today and contains letters to Santa written by school children in the parish. One group of letters, however, were best suited to remain as images. So they're provided here so Santa can take a look - here's letters from Ms Brooks's kindergarten class at Southside. Happy Holidays!!!

11/07/2024

General Trass Parade pictures!

09/05/2024

Local farmers Matthew Brown and Nolan Parker were recently featured in the national magazine Farm Journal. Catch a summary of it here:

As it goes in most farming families, sons and daughters who want to step into the family vocation step into their parents’ and even grandparents’ operation. But two young men in East Carroll Parish were recently recognized by Farm Journal for taking a different route.

07/19/2024

At the annual meeting of the Louisiana Press Association in Baton Rouge today, our paper brought home four first place prizes for our work last year, including first in General Excellence, and two third place. Billy Coleman received the Sam Hanna Award for best regular column. We are so proud of him, know what this would have meant to him, and would give a lot to have seen him accept it himself. Thanks for reading us and supporting us. Onward!

06/04/2024

High-speed broadband internet is in the homes of many rural parish residents. Read more here:

People who live in the most rural areas of East Carroll Parish and who might have struggled in the past to get even a cell phone connection now have access to extremely fast internet. The company that’s been building a fiber optic broadband internet network in rural East Carroll Parish is nearing ...

06/01/2024

The loss of a 1% sales tax leaves a lot of unanswered question for the police jury. See the story here.

Budgeted revenues for road construction and maintenance in East Carroll Parish are going to take a huge hit this year after the police jury neglected to put a sales tax renewal on the ballot last year.

05/28/2024

Plan on turkey hunting in East Carroll? Read the latest here.

East Carroll Parish is on year two of a three-year ban on wild turkey hunting due to low numbers up and down the Mississippi River, and there is little reason to believe numbers will recover when the ban is lifted.

05/27/2024

Our thoughts are with those who have sacrificed their lives and futures in service to our freedoms. We are so grateful.

The annual Memorial Day service will be at 11:30 today at Grant's Canal Park, across from the Byerley House. A sack lunch will be available after.

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05/23/2024

https://www.eastcarrollbanner.com/news/grades-released-parish-water-systems

Grades for East Carroll’s four water systems were released recently and all but the Lake Providence Water System received passing grades for 2023. Monticello’s water system received an A grade, while the East Carroll North and East Carroll South systems each received a C grade.

05/21/2024

Lake Providence Levee Festival was a third year success, a gathering and celebration of all things East Carroll, put on by local nonprofit Doorway to Louisiana.

Tucked into the base of the levee where Lake Street dead ends, more than 500 people – from Little Rock, California, Shreveport, New Orleans and right here in East Carroll parish – came out to enjoy and celebrate the life and vibrancy of our downtown.