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BY JENNA ROSS | Staff writer EAST CARROLL PARISH — When the internet is iffy in Lake Providence, as it often is, Brittany Lyons, the owner of an in-home care service, has a backup. She drives a half mile to the hospital where her sister works and asks to use their network, which is a bit more reliable. At the local U-Haul rental outlet, manager Kyla Richardson is used to pulling out her smartphone to help customers when the store’s internet falters. To host a recent training session, the district attorney’s office borrowed a personal Wi-Fi hot spot from the library. Glenn Dixon, an investigator with the District Attorney’s office, flipped through a paper calendar earlier this month, shaking his head. The office manager scrawls “No internet,” on days that their line-of-sight wireless service is down. May 2024: Out for three days. June 2024: out for five. “Storm,” she wrote in August 2024. Out for 10. “We can’t go paperless like many offices are doing now,” Dixon said, his desk covered in folders, loose
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Lafayette guitarist and record producer C.C. Adcock, left, saxophonist and artist Dickie Landry and Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger pose during a lunch at Antoine’s Restaurant in New Orleans’ French Quarter on May 3, 2024. The Rolling Stones performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival the previous day.
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Wanda Manning, a retired teacher, has been pushing for broadband in Lake Providence. As program director for the Together for Hope House she organizes drives for diapers and school supplies.
Robert ‘Bob’ Neilson was appointed by the state to run the Washington Parish city and fix Bogalusa’s financial problems after Mayor Tyrin Truong was arrested. STAFF PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER
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Lafayette guitarist and record producer C.C. Adcock, left, talks with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards at the Hit Factory recording studio in New york on Dec. 13. Adcock prod uced the Rolling Stones recording of the Clifton Chenier song ‘Zyd eco Sont Pas Salés.’
FOR THE KING BY KEITH SPERA | Staff writer
The Rolling Stones don’t contribute to tribute albums. They don’t release recordings billed as “The Rolling Stones featuring …” some other artist. And Mick Jagger doesn’t sing in Creole French. But they did for Clifton Chenier. The Rolling Stones recorded “Zydeco Sont Pas Salés” for “A Tribute to the King of Zydeco,” which commemorates the 100th anniversary of Chenier’s birth. On the new album, “Zydeco Sont Pas Salés” is credited to “The Rolling Stones featuring Steve Riley,” an acknowledgement of the southwest Louisiana accordionist’s extensive contribution to the track. Jagger sings in “perfect midcentury Creole French, not Parisian French,” notes C.C. Adcock, the Lafayette guitarist who produced the Stones’ first zydeco recording. “He does his homework.” The Stones’ take on “Zydeco Sont Pas Salés” opens “A Tribute to the King of Zydeco,” which the Eunice-based Valcour Records released Friday as both a CD and a vinyl LP. The song is also available as a standalone 7-inch vinyl single issued jointly by Valcour, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and Arhoolie Records. The single’s flip side features Chenier’s 1965 recording of “Zydeco et Pas Salés.”
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‘I have the ultimate authority in town’ of Robert “Bob” Neilson, an over $150,000 in contracted emerBogalusa accountant fices accountant who may have more gency sewer repairs. He’s hired than Mayor Tyrin Truong staff from the previous mayor’s takes on city overhaul power or the City Council combined. administration. And he has fired
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Since being appointed by the 10 or 12 city employees — he state in February to oversee Bo- didn’t have the specific number. “I have the ultimate authority Across from Bogalusa City Hall galusa’s troubled finances, Neilon Arkansas Avenue, behind a son has rapidly overhauled city in town,” Neilson said, looking up white picket fence, up three steps government from inside the walls ä See BOGALUSA, page 5A and through a side door are the of- of his accounting firm. He’s spent
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