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PERMITS
March 9, 2016
Anterina Guidry
March 9, 2016
PERMITS
March 9, 2016
Anterina Guidry
March 9, 2016

Daylight Saving Time starts

Don’t forget to wind your clocks forward one hour. Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 13.

Lawmakers settled on changing the clocks for 2 a.m. to create the least disruption. By daybreak, it is early enough that the entire continental U.S. makes the switch. For the next several months, Americans will sacrifice an hour of sleep for an added hour of daylight in the afternoon.


Court 13 casting for next film

The creators of “Beasts of the Southern Wild” are seeking two people for their next film.

A 35-45 year-old woman and 35-70 year-old man with angular features are needed. The man is described as “a tough man whose hard life and rough exterior mask a trustworthy soul.”


Send a recent photo (selfie, snapshot or family photo) and contact information to c13auditions@gmail.com.

NSU lecture analyzes historic death

Retired Nicholls State librarian Fran Middleton will deliver a lecture Thursday concerning a 1929 Morgan City murder case that led to the state’s first hanging of a woman.


Middleton will discuss the defendants, the context of the murder itself and the ensuing trial and executions.

The lecture starts at 10:30 a.m. in Bollinger Memorial Student Union’s Le Bijou Theater, and is open to the public.