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Established March 17, 1883, The Alexandria Town Talk is a daily newspaper for Alexandria-Pineville and the thirteen parishes which comprise central Louisiana. The newspaper was owned by the family of the late Jane Wilson Smith and Joe D. Smith, Jr. , until March 1996, when it was sold to Central Newspapers.
Media. Alexandria Daily Town Talk, Website. www.myacesbaseball.com. The Alexandria Aces were a baseball team based in Alexandria, Louisiana. The last version of the Aces played in the United League Baseball in 2013. The Aces have played their home games at historic Bringhurst Field, which was built in 1933 for the original Alexandria Aces.
Eakin was a freelance journalist, columnist, and photojournalist. She wrote for Alexandria Daily Town Talk, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and the column "Bunkie Main Street" for the Opelousas Daily World. She contributed to the History of St. Landry Parish in 1955, edited by Ruth Fontenot.
Melissa Gregory, Alexandria Town Talk. September 14, 2024 at 7:36 PM. A 12-year-old girl and a 26-year-old man died from gunshot wounds in Alexandria within 12 hours a block away from each other ...
Melissa Gregory, Alexandria Town Talk. January 3, 2024 at 2:24 PM. A Rapides Parish judge has denied a new trial for a convicted rapist and also has denied a bid to reconsider his 10-year sentence.
The Alexandria Daily Town Talk attributed much of the improvement in living conditions in the black community to Berry's activism. The newspaper quoted Berry as having said: "Young people will be surprised to know the conditions under which blacks had to exist at the time, for they really had no rights that anybody was bound to respect."
On February 26, 2014, two documents were leaked online disclosing an alleged blackmail attempt by Aguillard's former assistant, Joseph Cole. The first document, released minutes from an executive committee meeting of the Louisiana College Board of Trustees, contends that Cole threatened to leak "office secrets" to The Alexandria Daily Town Talk or Save Our Louisiana College unless the college ...
The hotel was built by the timber baron Joseph Bentley at a cost of $700,000; allegedly because he had been refused dinner service at another local hotel for not being properly attired. It opened to the public in August, 1908, and Mr Bentley lived in the hotel until his death in 1938. On November 15, 1979, it was added to the National Register ...