Glenmora High School is hiring a Head Custodian for the 2025-2026 school year.

The application deadline is this Friday, July 25, at 4pm.

The Pineville Police Department is bringing awareness to a TikTok challenge that is making the rounds. There is a trend encouraging kids to kick in someone’s front door for a few seconds of internet fame.

The Pineville PD would like to make a few things clear: 

• Kicking someone’s door is NOT a prank.
• It’s NOT harmless fun.
• This is a criminal offense and it can turn deadly.

Homeowners have the legal right to protect themselves. If someone hears their door being violently kicked in, they’re not thinking “TikTok challenge.” They’re thinking “home invasion.” Consequently, 

• Someone could get seriously hurt.
• Someone could get arrested.
• Someone could lose their life

This can turn deadly in seconds. No likes. No shares. No “just kidding.” Just real-world consequences.

Pineville PD encourages parents to talk to their children about the real-world dangers of such challenges and encourages teens to think before acting.  This “challenge” could change the lives of everyone involved for all the wrong reasons.

Teens will learn the basics of color theory by creating works inspired by pieces in the Alexandria Museum of Art’s 38th September Competition on Saturday, July 26, 1-4pm. 

This event is FREE to teens between the ages or 13 and 19. The youngest participants must have turned 13 within a month of this event to participate.

Carbon Capture and Sequestration involves capturing CO2 emissions directly from large point private sources like power plants, industrial facilities, or cement factories before they’re released into the atmosphere. The captured CO2 is then compressed and transported (usually by pipeline) to be stored permanently underground in geological formations like depleted oil and gas reservoirs or saline aquifers

The porous space where the C02 is stored consists of porous rock layers, located under the caprock. This caprock is directly under our Groundwater aquifers. The goal is to store CO2 permanently underground, keeping it out of the atmosphere.

Louisiana has the geological storage capacity to sequester approximately 40% of the Nations C02 Emissions.

Arrests are accusations, not convictions.

July 23

Hunter Stone Deville, 29, Alexandria – domestic abuse battery, $1,500 bail;

Brian Joseph Guidry, 39, Alexandria – OWI first offense, fail to dim lights for approaching vehicle, open container, $1,200 bail;

Willie R. Hicks, 42, Deville – theft, criminal conspiracy, no bail data;

James Ivan Jenkins, 41, Deville – theft, criminal conspiracy, contempt on non-support, $1,000 bail;

William Kevin Jones, 34, Marksville – probation violation, three counts contempt of court, $100,000 bail;

Peter James Lambert Jr, 19, Alexandria – OWI first offense, reckless operation of a vehicle, possession of CDS, driver’s license not in possession, $2,100 bail;

Tradale Andrew Williams, 34, Pineville – possession of CDS, possession of marijuana, possession of firearm by convicted felon, illegal carry firearm with drugs, aggravated assault with a firearm, parole violations, contempt of court, $34,000 bail

July 22

Javier Arkuis Brown, 34, N/A – aggravated second-degree battery, obscenity, $10,000 bail;

Kenneth Bell, 42, Pineville – aggravated battery, $5,000 bail;

Jerry Randell Butler, 59, Alexandria – two counts resisting an officer, three counts contempt of court, $61,000 bail;

Michael Wayne Collins Jr, 22, Alexandria – two counts second-degree murder, two counts second-degree battery, four counts second-degree aggravated battery, taking contraband to and from penal institutions, two counts simple battery, $2.3 million bail;

Justice Jimwalter Farris, 27, Pineville – simple battery, aggravated kidnapping, first-degree robbery, simple escape, criminal damage to property, two counts contempt of court, $905,500 bail;

Demarkis Dundre Guidry, 33, Alexandria – four counts theft, $16,000 bail;

Dimitriana Deshon Iles, 27, Alexandria – simple battery, five counts contempt of court, $20,500 bail;

Craig Joseph Johnson, 24, Cottonport – possession of CDS, $2,500 bail;

Isaiah Zykayes Kirk, 18, Lecompte – possession of CDS, producing manufacturing distributing CDS, theft, $500 bail;

Micah Loran Meche Jr, 24, Pineville – OWI second offense, tail lamps, possession of marijuana, $2,100 bail;

Quintin Mitchell, 25, Alexandria – simple battery, theft, possession of drug paraphernalia, two counts resisting an officer, $3,000 bail;

Nathaniel Keith Thomas, 30, Alexandria – possession of CDS, possession of paraphernalia, tail lamps, contempt to pay fine, $3,100 bail;

Dominic Alphonse Edward Thompson, 17, Ball – simple resisting police officer with force or violence, disturbing the peace, simple escape, resisting an officer, $6,500 bail;

Aaron Lee Ware, 34, Woodworth – OWI second offense, sex offender failure to timely register, parole violations, $2,500 bail;

Justin Quincy Williamson, 50, Oakdale – criminal trespass, simple burglary, $10,500 bail.

July 21

George Wayne Fielder Jr, 63, Hineston – contempt of court, $50,000 bail;

Sirtyrus Alray Fulton, 28, Alexandria – running a stop sign, no driver’s license, flight from an officer, illegal carrying of weapon, two counts possession of firearm by convicted felon, possession of marijuana, illegal carry firearm with drugs, failure to secure registration, possession of drug paraphernalia, probation violation, $76,300 bail;

Christopher Joseph Hebert, 40, Boyce – two counts violation of protective orders, $3,000 bail;

Slay F. Howell, 23, Alexandria – two counts possession of CDS, paraphernalia, $3,000 bail;

Ellis Jones, 60, Alexandria – OWI first offense, $1,000 bail;

Germany G. Lard, 45, Alexandria – impersonating a peace officer, $5,000 bail;

Jessica Faye McCue, 43, Alexandria – OWI first offense, tail lamps, $1,100 bail;

Kerriohna Alyssa White, 30, Deville – two counts contempt of court, $100,000 bail.

July 20

Nathan Brooks, 51, Boyce – domestic abuse battery, $1,500 bail;

Destiny Ilyassa Cole, 22, Alexandria – OWI first offense, careless operation, no vehicle registration, no driver’s license in possession, hit and run, $1,500 bail;

Joshua Jermone Henderson, 26, Alexandria – illegal use of weapons/dangerous instrumentalities, $100,000 bail;

Jarred Thomas Rachal, 45, Pineville – three counts contempt of court, $150,000 bail;

Fredrica Shepherd, 26, Alexandria – theft, extradition proceedings, $5,000 bail;

Jody Lynn Smith, 57, Deville – contempt of court, $50,000 bail.

The Village of Forest Hill has rescinded the boil advisory for Willis Gunter Rd. from OV Robbins Rd. going west to the end of the line, including Bell Rd. No further action is needed at this time. 

By JIM BUTLER

Jamarrius Willingham is finding bail more difficult to come by than in two previous felony arrests this year.

Of course this time the price has gone up.

Willingham, 29, is accused of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree.

He allegedly committed the shootings on the afternoon of July 18 in an altercation on Warshauer Street not far from his residence.

Arrested shortly afterward, he remained in lockup Tuesday evening, bail set at $1.5 million.

Bonds posted in his previous cases pale in comparison.

On June 26 he posted $4,000 for arrest the previous day for alleged domestic abuse battery and felony DAB with child present.

Ten days earlier he was booked for alleged DAB/aggravated assault/chid endangerment, DAB strangulation, criminal damage intent to defraud, theft and three contempt counts, posting $43,000 bond the next day.

Parish records indicate he posted $1,600 bond about two hours after a May 2023 arrest on misdemeanor drug and traffic charges.

In November 2021 his bail, paid the next day, was $20,600 on possession with intent, felony flight, illegal carrying of a weapon and misdemeanor traffic charges.

The Rapides Parish District Attorney announced this week that Tayshaun Lamar Spearman has been successfully convicted of Intent to Distribute Marijuana. 

Following the conviction, Spearman was sentenced to seven years in prison. 

The case was prosecuted Assistant District Attorney Derrick Johnson.

Golf’s final major championship of 2025 is in the books, which makes this weekend the perfect time for the sport’s most anticipated movie in years to make its debut.

The world premiere was Monday night in the Big Apple, and the biggest name in the game, Scottie Scheffler, was there with wife Meredith in tow and the Claret Jug in his grasp.

Sunday, Scottie won the British Open. Last night, back across the pond, but a time zone away from home in Dallas, he settled in to check out Happy Gilmore 2.

He is among a gallery of famous people, including some of the world’s best golfers, who have cameos in the film, which tees off Friday on Netflix. (Note to self: subscribe to Netflix. I’m sure there’s more to see there than Happy 2, but I’ll start there and surf around later.).

Adam Sandler rekindles his role as the hockey player turned touring pro, almost 30 years after the original Happy Gilmore hit the big screens. There was no Netflix, Apple2, Amazon Prime, etc. in those days. We lined up, overpaid for cokes, popcorn and candy, plopped down in a reasonably comfortable chair (nothing like those loungers in today’s movie houses), and discovered Bob Barker and Verne Lundquist were funny, funny guys. Who knew?

Sandler taped a guest spot with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show and said Happy 2 was not a long-term dream. In fact, he said that in the run-up to the premiere of the original, he and his NYU college roomie Tim Herlihy wondered just how stupid they were to try to make a funny golf movie that would be compared to the 1981 gem Caddyshack.

The Rodney Dangerfield-Chevy Chase-Bill Murray epic gave us lines that are repeated five decades later.

“Oh, it looks good on you, though.”

“Thank you very little.”

“So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.”

And many, many more.

You don’t get those in Happy Gilmore. Sandler’s got a different style, leaning into slapstick while blending in a strong sense of absurdity and making it seem he’s the off-kilter guy down the street (the title role in Billy Madison) or the exaggerated knucklehead (Bobby Boucher in The Waterboy).

It works. His films have grossed over $2 billion (Happy Gilmore accounts for “just” $41 million. Thought it would be three times that.) and his latest is the first in a four-film deal with Netflix for $250 million.

“Not too shabby” – which is one of the best lines in his masterpiece “The Chanukah Song,” which made the Dec. 3, 1994  Saturday Night Live unforgettable as Sandler contemplated what Jewish kids like him dealt with during the holiday season. Being Jewish, he sang, is cool.

“We got Ann Landers and her sister Dear Abby

Harrison Ford’s a quarter Jewish, not too shabby

Some people think that Ebenezer Scrooge is

Well he’s not, but guess who is — all Three Stooges

So many Jews are in showbiz

Tom Cruise isn’t, but I heard his agent is!”

This is the mind that two years later gave us Happy Gilmore, and now, it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

The Happy 2 cameo list includes plenty of Scheffler’s pro tour pals – though not his best bud, LSU product Sam Burns, who has managed to keep the low profile he craves despite rising among the world’s top 25 players.  Scheffler is just too successful to entirely dodge the spotlight.

Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau, John Daly, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa and Nelly Korda are among the top golfers who make appearances, along with Taylor Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce, Post Malone, Eminem, Bad Bunny, former Saints running back Reggie Bush, Stephen A. Smith, Dan Patrick, and others who are famous for reasons I do not understand (Ocasio?).

All I needed was Sandler in his lead role and Julie Bowen in anything she wants to wear. My biggest question? How did the Manning boys miss the cut?

At some point this weekend, I’ll try to figure that out. How much is Netflix?

Contact Doug at sbjdoug@gmail.com

Carbon Capture and Sequestration involves capturing CO2 emissions directly from large point private sources like power plants, industrial facilities, or cement factories before they’re released into the atmosphere. The captured CO2 is then compressed and transported (usually by pipeline) to be stored permanently underground in geological formations like depleted oil and gas reservoirs or saline aquifers

The porous space where the C02 is stored consists of porous rock layers, located under the caprock. This caprock is directly under our Groundwater aquifers. The goal is to store CO2 permanently underground, keeping it out of the atmosphere.

Louisiana has the geological storage capacity to sequester approximately 40% of the Nations C02 Emissions.

The City of Pineville has announced its Second Annual Back to School Splash Bash on Saturday, August 2, from 10am to 2pm at Kees Park Splash Pad.

Bring the kids out for one last splash and to cool off from the summer heat before heading back to school. They’ll love zooming down the water slide, playing in the splash pad, and exploring the playground.

There will be limited free bagged lunches available on a first-come, first-served basis, so be sure to get there early. 

Don’t miss out on this fun-filled day. 

The Rapides Parish School Board has announced the appointment of Stanley Jones as Principal of Arthur F. Smith Middle Magnet School.

Mr. Jones has most recently served as Executive Assistant Principal at Peabody Magnet High School. With 30 years of dedicated service in education, all within Rapides Parish, he has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to student success and educational excellence throughout his career.

His extensive experience in school administration and knowledge of the district make him ideally positioned to lead Arthur F. Smith Middle Magnet into its next chapter.

When asked about his new role, Mr. Jones shared his enthusiasm for “leading, guiding and working with a new faculty, students and parents.”

The Tioga Junior High Basketball team will host a car wash and BBQ sale fundraiser on Friday.

The car wash is $10 per car and includes vacuum, wash, dry, and air freshener.

The BBQ plate is also $10 and includes leg quarters, dirty rice, green beans, and bread. Order TODAY. Delivery is available for orders of five plates or more. Pre-order 10 or more by TODAY. 

For questions or orders, call Coach Eric Lefear at 318-542-0092.