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Carlos Lombas, a Morgan City city employee, cleaned gravesites Thursday afternoon in the Morgan City Cemetery on Railroad Avenue prior to an approaching rain shower. (Photo by Courtney Darce)

All Saints Day is 1,400-year tradition

The celebration now known as All Saints Day formally began to be recognized by the Catholic church around 1,400 years ago in Rome at the Pantheon to remember t

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Hanson's Jack Vaccarella makes the grab on this play during Saturday’s final day of the Annual Hanson Memorial High School Baseball Classic at Amar Lancon Field.

Lifestyle

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When pruning trees, work with its natural form. LSU AgCenter Horticulturist Dan Gill said not to butcher trees as has been done to these crape myrtles.
—LSU AgCenter Photo/Dan Gill

“A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its tormentor.” George William Curtis, American writer, editor and spe

Obituaries

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August 12, 1940 — March 5, 2017
Wayne Jackson Buxton, 76, a resident of Berwick, passed away Sunday, March 5, 2017, in his home surrounded by loved ones.

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