PREP FOOTBALL Crimson Tide takes on Woodlawn tonight INSIDE MINDEN RESS ERALD P -H www.press-herald.com November 6, 2015 | 50 Cents FRIDAY INSIDE MAIN TO MAIN MINDEN CRIME today Peeping tom arrested Police: Suspect in the 300 block of Hardy Street in reference to a prowler MINDEN HIGH arrested over 20 just before 6 a.m. SENIOR NIGHT “Once they got there, the RESCHEDULED times on charge, homeowner indicated he’d seen someone outside of his Due to the threat of convicted of 11 window,” he said. “They got incliment weather, Minden outside and High School’s Senior Night noticed a hat will be moved to 5:30 p.m. MICHELLE BATES sitting on the Thursday, Nov.12 at the [email protected] window sill. At Glow Out Pep Rally in that point in downtown Minden. A convicted peeping tom time, he has been arrested on his 12th thought he offense, making it a felony could hear arrest. someone run- Glenn Edward Holiday, 51, ning through HOLIDAY of the 1300 block of Sheppard the woods, Street, was arrested Wednes- a p p a r e n t l y day, Nov. 4, on charges of 12th behind his house.” offense peeping tom and Hammontree and Smith resisting an officer. checked around the back and Minden Police Chief Steve around the apartment com- Cropper says Officers First plex near the apartment the Class Chris Hammontree and Clint Smith responded to a call SeePEEPER, Page 2 Foster - Runyan EDUCATION united in marriage Schools renovations, LIFE PG.5 proposition topic of town hall meetings MAIN TO MAIN KICKS OFF MICHELLE BATES regarding a bond extension on Mallory Stewart of Southern Serenade sets up her booth Friday morning in the current 29-mill property downtown Minden for the annual Main to Main Trade Days. The event - which [email protected] tax. The extension will be for runs until Saturday - brings 50 miles of shopping to Webster parish spanning five years. The current proper- from the northern to the southern parish lines. Bruce Franklin/Press-Herald The Webster Parish School ty mill will sunset in 2031, but Board will host two town hall with the extension, it will sun- Chamber meetings at J.A. Phillips Mid- set in 2036. dle School and Webster Junior The five-year extension will readying for busy COURT WATCH High School to discuss the ren- fund $7 million in 20-year fall season ovations and construction that general obligation bonds to Man pleads to burglary charges will take place if a bond exten- pay for the construction and sion proposition passes Nov. renovations to take place at OPINION PG.4 21. Phillips and Webster. The first meeting will take MICHELLE BATES Judge Jeff Thompson, of He will not be multi- The idea is to close Harper place at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. and move kindergarten and [email protected] the 26th judicial district, billed, and no other charges WEATHER ordered a will be brought forth from 9, at Phillips. The second first grade students to Phillips. p r e - s e n - the time of his arrest. meeting will take place at 6 A kindergarten building will be TOMORROW’S OUTLOOK An accused thief entered t e n c i n g Assistant district attor- p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 10, at added to the school with reno- a plea of guilty to two investiga- ney Hugo Holland says the WJHS. vations inside the main build- charges in district court tion before other charges of two counts At the meetings, a brochure ing, expansion of the play- Monday. he is sen- of theft of a motor vehicle, will be available to the public ground area and improved Shawn David Rambin, tenced Jan. theft over $1,500, posses- outlining the issues at J.E. parking for faculty and staff. 37, entered his plea on 29, 2016. sion of Schedule IV CDS Harper Elementary School, The sixth grade students charges of possession of a The sen- (clonazepam), two counts what the plan includes, and will be moved to Webster into firearm or carrying con- tence he RAMBIN of hit and run, open con- inside, a scaled down site plan a new wing to be built at the cealed weapon by a convict- receives will tainer, stop sign, two counts which shows the changes. school. According to the plan ed felon and simple burgla- run concurrent, or at the SeeRAMBIN, Page 2 On Nov. 21, voters will be ry. same time. asked to cast their ballots SeeSCHOOLS, Page 2 71 59 HIGH LOW A single vehicle crash sent Considerable cloudiness with two children and the driver occasional rain showers. to the hospital with minor Chance of rain 50%. injuries. A commercial pas- senger van, driven by Patri- cia Shyne, of the 500 block of CONNECT WITH US Marion Street, was carrying @mindenph eight children. Minden police say Shyne was travel- ing eastbound on East Union when she reportedly passed out and hit a utility pole at East Union and Abney Streets. Police say a medical condition may have been to blame for the crash. The chil- Vol. 47 No. 89 dren in the van range in ages from 4 to 13 years of age. No citations were issued. Bruce Franklin/Press-Herald 2 Friday, November 6, 2015 – Minden Press-Herald SECONDwww.press-herald.com FRONT WEBSTER PARISH POLICE JURY AROUND THE STATE Jury talks mowing contract Ex-BP engineer’s MICHELLE BATES police jury to take care of the him to not want to get in the Jurors brought up several mowing, totaling roughly ditch. He gets the same factors on both sides, some criminal case may [email protected] $360,000. This figure money whether he makes bringing up liability issues includes the cost of new trac- three passes in that ditch or such as if an employee The Webster Parish Police tors with side cutters, related whether he just rides down wrecks the tractor or tears it Jury, in December, will dis- equipment, fuel costs and the road with the bat wing in up, repairs, finding good cuss in further detail whether temporary employees to the ditch.” temporary employees and be near resolution to continue contracting out mow for the 17-week mowing Thomas suggested putting others. its seasonal mowing. season. in this coming year’s bid an Parish attorney Patrick NEW ORLEANS — A has pleaded not guilty. “What I want is for the One of the issues Thomas evaluation where the con- Jackson also reminded former engineer with the Prosecutors say he jurors to make an educated sa ys they are having is during tractor would be paid by the jurors the cost of employing oil energy company BP is deleted text messages to a decision at the wetter months, it’s diffi- mile, but also by how much temporary workers. set for a change-of-plea supervisor regarding the the time that cult to get the tractors down was mowed per mile. Jury “Under the Affordable hearing in a long-running amount of oil flowing from the mowing into the ditches. With the president Jim Bonsall says it Care Act, if these employees federal case related to the the site where the Deepwa- c o n t r a c t contractor, the police jury would be difficult to do that, are going to be full time, they 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil ter Horizon offshore oil rig (comes due),” has to pay a contracted rate if anything, making the price have to be under insurance,” spill. exploded. juror Daniel Kurt Mix is scheduled His attorneys have long Thomas said. per mile whether they mow a per mile increase. he said. “If they work a full third of the ditch or the “I think it would make the 40-hour week for seven for a Friday morning hear- argued that there was “I think we ing before U.S. District ample evidence he shared agreed that whole thing. He says if the price go up if we try to do months, they are full time police jury takes over mow- that,” Bonsall said. under the Affordable Care Judge Stanwood Duval in information about the flow we’re going to DANIEL New Orleans. He is cur- rate at the well site bid it out ing again, they could get the Bonsall says if the price is Act. So that $8-$10 an hour entire ditch, including the close, he’d rather contract it employee is going to cost you rently charged with throughout the govern- again this year. If we wait obstruction of justice and ment investigation. until that day to make a deci- backside. out. $20 an hour.” sion on whether we can “Right now, if he does “I know that we have to do Bonsall suggested taking afford to do it or not afford to that, the way we’re paying what we have to do, whether in the bids, looking at them do, it’s too late, normally.” him per mile, we have to pay we have to do it or we con- and discuss the pros and He passed around a hand- him,” Thomas said. “If he tract it out,” he said. “My cons of each. faculty and staff needed out with figures showing only mows a third of the opinion is if the price is close, The police jury has been for the sixth grade. what it would cost for the ditch, we have to pay him per I’d rather contract it out and outsourcing its mowing for SCHOOLS By Friday, brochures mile.