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Be sure to Vote -- 2nd Party Primary Elections, June 27.

Deadline - Register to vote in person, by mail, or at OMV Office: May 27.

Deadline - Register to vote via GeauxVote: June 6.

Early voting - June 12-20, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. (excluding June 14, and June 19)

Deadline - Request absentee ballot: June 23, 4:30 p.m (other than military and overseas voters).

Deadline - Registrar to receive voted absentee ballot: June 26, 4:30 p.m. (other than military and overseas voters). 

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Doug Parkin

Flooded treasures

August 24, 2016

By Doug Parkin

JACKSON, Miss. (BP) — The magnitude of the property damage in Louisiana’s flooding disaster is incredible. The magnitude of the emotional damage is incalculable.

And for disaster relief volunteers, it is hard to describe the emotions of walking into a home and, after performing necessary demolition of flood-damaged flooring and walls, leaving it actually looking worse than when we started.

I have just returned from four days in south Louisiana helping lead teams of teenagers and adults in initial recovery support to flooded-out homeowners.

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By Will Hall, Baptist Message executive editor ALEXANDRIA, La. (LBM) – Jericho is significant to the trustworthiness of Scripture because its exis­tence is tied to key historical events documented in both the Old and New Testa­ments. BIBLICAL CORNERSTONE In Jericho Jesus continued his mission to “seek … Read More

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