City of Sulphur Council member Nancy Tower (center) is pictured with four of the originating members of the Community Advisory Panel. CAP recently celebrated their third anniversary.

Energy star-qualified bulbs use 70 percent less energy and last up to 10 times longer than old-fashioned incandescent bulbs. In fact, the Clean Energy Act of 2007 introduced a ban on many incandescent bulbs. Beginning in 2014, the only incandescent light bulbs that will be produced in the United States....

There will be a meeting of the Gravity Drainage District No. 5 Board of Commissioners on Monday, August 18, 2008, at 5:30 p.m. The next regular meeting is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 5:30 p.m.

The fact is that there is no cure for AIDS, and one may not be found “within our lifetime or our children’s lifetime”, according to Marcianna Shogan, Director of Community Relations and Development for the Southwest Louisiana AIDS Council (SLAC).

“Jam Sports Marketing, a Mansfield, Texas, company, is in no way affiliated with McNeese or authorized to perform any work on the university’s behalf,” Candace Townsend, McNeese director of public information and communications, said.

On August 10 at 1:49 p.m., Louisiana State Police – Troop D investigated a one-vehicle, fatality crash on U.S. Hwy 90, milepost 6 (west of Vinton), in Calcasieu Parish...

The featured speaker for the Sulphur Sunrise Rotary Club for Friday, August 8 was Bonnie Cappo, MS, Program Director for the new Wound Healing Center at West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital. Cappo described the new service being offered at WCCH to Rotary Club members by explaining that a multi-disciplinary approach is taken to heal wounds...

"In total, we're talking about the retention of over 500 good paying jobs and the creation of 130 new jobs. We all know that Chennault is such a critical asset for Southwest Louisiana and really the entire state," Jindal said.