{Editor’s Note: “Discover Avoyelles” is a series of articles about attractions in Avoyelles that could be a short activity for families this summer.}

  Two Avoyelles municipalities were granted permission by the State Bond Commission on June 18 to sell bonds to pay for public improvement projects.

{Editor’s Note: As we did last year, we are honoring all Avoyelles Parish fathers with a special feature that looks at a father’s influence on his sons.

According to Sheriff Doug Anderson, on June 18, 2015, three members of a Bunkie family were arrested at their home in Bunkie, after a lengthy narcotics investigation.

By RAYMOND L. DAYE