Author: Minden Press-Herald

The Glenbrook Apaches and Lady Apaches split a pair of games with River Oaks at home Tuesday, with the Apache boys falling and the Lady Apaches blowing out the Lady Mustangs. In the boys game, Glenbrook led the entire first half and most of the third quarter, but collapsed down the stretch as River Oaks…

The Lakeside Warriors dropped a pair of games on the road Tuesday to the Homer High School Pelicans. In the boys game, the Warriors fell by a score of 60-56. The Warriors and Pelicans both fought hard all night, trading leads up until the final minutes. “It was really a back and forth kind of…

A man who Minden police narcotic investigators say is no stranger to the illegal drug trade in the area is behind bars following his arrest last week on three outstanding warrants charging him with distribution of marijuana. Claude H. Yount III, a 49-year-old resident of the 100 block of Yount Road in Minden, is currently…

Famed environmental attorney Erin Brockovich has joined social and environmental organizations across the nation in what started as a grass roots effort and exploded into a full blown movement to stop the open tray burning at Camp Minden. The open tray burning is the method selected by the Environmental Protection Agency, to destroy what coalitions…

A budget for the year 2014 showing total income exceeding expenses by more than $62,000 was approved Tuesday by members of the Webster Parish Convention and Visitors Bureau board of directors. Figures for the 2014 budget show actual income of $361,614 and expenses totaling $298,817. The document shows the largest portion of the bureau’s money…

Faces of fame, film and fable – that is the theme from last week’s familiarization tour, which hosted several motor coach tour operators from as far away as New York and Canada, but not before a little Mardi Gras party. Operators were treated to a little Louisiana culture Mardi Gras style in The Courtyard, to…

Martin Luther King Jr. was considered a hero to many, an agitator by others, and even as he sat in a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, his call for justice and equality for all did not stop. It was in this jail cell that he would write one of the most famous and…

The 24th Annual St. Jude Chili Cook-Off is right around the corner and cooks from across the nation are making plans to attend an event that pits their culinary talents while helping children with catastrophic illnesses. Minden has again been designated as the site for the 2015 Louisiana State Championship. “State championships not only draw…