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By Daniel Jones, editor

After a whirlwind recruiting season that never seemed to end, AJ Carter has made his final decision and signed his National Letter of Intent to play with the Arizona State Sun Devils on December 20.

During his four years with the Many Tigers, Carter has amassed a massive amount of yardage and touchdowns, while serving as a role model to younger players and fans alike.

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By Donna Dyson-Horn

Good news hit Florien High School about fellow student RyLeigh Rutherford, that she had signed up to continue her dream of playing softball, this time with LSUA. RyLeigh is the 17-year-old daughter of Ryan and Shelly Rutherford of Florien. She will graduate in 2018 from FHS and will attend LSUA in the Fall of 2018. RyLeigh will graduate with a 4.0

I wanted to know what made RyLeigh play softball in the first place. Well, she has been playing ball since she was five years old. She played two years of t-ball and one year of pitching machine with the boys. She was the only girl all three years to be chosen to play All-Stars. She would hang her bag in her own dugout, but it was RyLeigh who would show those boys up on the field.

Thirty-four teens represented Louisiana at the annual National 4-H Congress, along with more than 1,000 other delegates from throughout the United States and its territories, in Atlanta during the Thanksgiving weekend.

Activities at Congress included team-building workshops, informative sessions, a restaurant lunch and an evening of culture at the Atlanta History Museum. Highlights of the museum visit included a catered dinner, a comedy performance, bluegrass music and an African dance performance, said Tanya Giroir, LSU AgCenter youth development instructor and events coordinator.

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By Daniel Jones, editor

Details are sketchy in last week’s murder of Adam Lloyd Jeter, 34, of Zwolle.

On December 15, he was found dead inside his vehicle, which was left in a cow pasture off of Patterson Road, according to Sabine Parish Deputy Coroner Ron Rivers. He was shot multiple times.

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On December 11, a crash involving two vehicles killed a man and moderately injured another. The man killed was not wearing his seat belt and was operating his vehicle in the wrong lane of travel, according to the Louisiana State Police. Alcohol usage is a suspected factor.

Troopers responded to the crash around 8 p.m., which occurred Highway 171 near Zwolle. The crash involved a 2000 Pontiac Grand Am, driven by Wallace I. Brumfield, 50, of Many and a 2008 Ford Taurus, driven by William B. McNeely Jr., 81, also of Many. The Pontiac was southbound on Highway 171, traveling the wrong way in the left northbound lane. This action resulted in the Pontiac colliding head on with the Ford, which was traveling northbound in the left lane.

Every year the Sabine Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) of Many, Louisiana honors a landowner who improves his farm with our assistance as the O.E. Williams, Jr. Outstanding Conservation Farmer of the Year Award stated Mr. Jim Pratt of the SWCD at the 23rd annual luncheon on December 6.

A toe-tapping, down home pickin’ and grinnin’ good time is planned for Friday, December 22 when the musical Stewart family of Florien will take the stage at the Many Community Center [Sabine Theater] in downtown Many to present their “Down Home Christmas Pickin’” at 7 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Town of Many and Many Cultural District. Admission is free.

The sound of guitars, mandolin, fiddle, autoharp, bass and more will fill the air as the talented Willie Stewart, his son Bo, grandson Kelly, and brother Bubba present a wide variety of Christmas favorites along with Kelly’s wife, award-winning champion fiddler Clancey Ferguson Stewart, originally of Mountain View, Arkansas.

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