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Dec 11, 2024 | 
klfy.com | Tracy Wirtz |PR specialist
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — The Lafayette Parish School System, led by Superintendent Francis Touchet, celebrated excellence in education by surprising the 2024-25 Student of the Year winners on Wednesday morning. Representing the elementary, middle, and high school levels, these exceptional students are well-rounded, straight-A achievers who excel academically and in extracurricular pursuits.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
929nin.com | Tracy Wirtz |Mike Brant
LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL News) - We've all been to a big box store in Lafayette or any of the other towns in Louisiana and experienced the line leading to self-checkout snake around the front of the store. The kiosks now hold a prominent place in the store, and customers either applaud or bemoan their existence. A social media post listing the reasons why people hate them has been shared and copied thousands of times.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
973thedawg.com | Tracy Wirtz
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterA familiar face and a familiar voice to radio listeners and television viewers across South Louisiana has announced a "change in channels" to borrow from the vocabulary of media outlets.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
929nin.com | Tracy Wirtz
Lafayette, LA (KPEL News) - The majority of Louisiana residents, and even Americans, remember the . A record 27 named storms formed that year, and 7 of them made landfall. The two hurricanes the jump to the minds of Louisiana residents are Katrina and Rita. That year, all the conditions were ripe for such an active season, and all those ingredients being mixed together just right proved disastrous. Warm water fuels hurricanes.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
kpel965.com | Tracy Wirtz
LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL News) - The Lafayette, Louisiana, television landscape is still changing, and viewers will decide who they turn to for their daily dose of information. Each Lafayette TV station has seen its share of comings and goings, but only a handful of familiar faces spent a dozen or more, several more, years on screens. You may still miss them and, as difficult it may have been to watch them go, the wheels of news still turn and stories continue to get coverage.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
kpel965.com | Tracy Wirtz
Lafayette, LA (KPEL News) - Change is hard. You've heard those words and, if you have more than two dozen candles on your birthday cake, you know how true they are. The Lafayette, Louisiana, TV market has seen more than its share in the last year. With the exception of KLFY, the look and feel of the other television stations who provide news and weather to the Acadiana area have adjusted either who delivers news at the desk or how they deliver that news to the public.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
kpel965.com | Tracy Wirtz
Lafayette, LA (KPEL News) - You remember the joke that both parents raise a child and, when that kid gets in front of a camera, they inevitably proclaim, "Hi Mom!" Dads who are all in for their kids often get the short end of the proverbial stick. A recent report from Wallet Hub confirms that Louisiana dads have a rough time when it comes to several factors. Once upon a time, fathers were the sole income earners in the household.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
kpel965.com | Tracy Wirtz
Lafayette, LA (KPEL News) - Sports fans are gearing up for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, and Louisiana has at least two reasons to tune in. An LSU duo is headed across the pond to compete for Team USA in beach volleyball, and they are an interesting pair. Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss, affectionately known as Team TKN, both graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
kpel965.com | Tracy Wirtz
New Iberia, LA (KPEL News) - One of the brutal storms that barreled through south Louisiana this spring devastated an historic landmark. Rip Van Winkle Gardens near New Iberia posted on their Facebook page on June 2 that they were closed until they could set the property to rights after the severe weather and possible tornado downed power lines and toppled trees. The work began almost immediately.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
kpel965.com | Tracy Wirtz
Estherwood, LA (KPEL News) - The Estherwood man missing since Wednesday, June 5, has returned to his family. His mother began pleading for help to locate him when he disappeared after allegedly being dropped off near a rice mill on Louisiana Hwy 90 in Mermentau. Bernie Myers tells KPEL News that her son Gavin went through an unbelievable ordeal during the three days he was missing. She says he was with two women and got separated from them in a remote, swampy area near the mill.
