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Gardening with Dr. Joe White: Consider Using Ornamental Grasses
August 2026 To some people the word “grass” means a pretty lawn that ties together the plants in a landscape and makes the home the focal point of it all. To others it reminds them of a highly...
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Bossier Parish Library Column: National Soft Ice Cream Day
Bossier Parish Library Column – 34Annie Gilmer, Community Engagement Librarian This heat may be influencing my topic choice this week, but who doesn’t enjoy a soft-serve ice cream at times? With that...
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Bossier Parish History Center Column: It’s an honor to be a “Jeep-O!”
Don’t You Want to be a Jeep-O? inquires the headline from an August, 1943 issue of Barksdale’s Bark, the newspaper of Barksdale Field, now Barksdale Air Force Base. The Barksdale Field “Jeep-O” program...
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Bossier Parish History Center: Benton Pilot Among the Missing from Korean War
By Kevin Flowers, Bossier Parish Libraries History CenterSeventy-six years ago, President Harry Truman was taking a break from the stress of life in the White House by relaxing at his home in...
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Bossier Parish Library: Best Visibility for the Perseids – August 12-13
Bossier Parish Library Column Annie Gilmer, Community Engagement Librarian August 12, 2026This week’s fun facts from your library are all about the Perseid Meteor Shower, which usually peaks between...
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Gardening with Dr. Joe White: ROSE AND PEACH TIPS
August 2026 While pruning most woody plants is best done by or before the middle of July when it’s desired to reduce plant size or re-shape the canopy, roses and peaches are best pruned in August. The...
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Bossier Parish Librairies: Celebrate Cats Day is August 8
Bossier Parish Library Column – 32Annie Gilmer, Community Engagement Librarian August 5, 2026This Saturday, August 8th, we celebrate cats! Every year, since it was created in 2002 by International...
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Bossier History Center: The Barksdale Literacy School in WWII
In the summer of 1944, Allied forces were fighting some of their fiercest or most daring battles, while also reaping some of their most auspicious victories. On June 5, Allied troops entered Rome in...
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Gardening With Dr. Joe White: Sometimes Small Landscapes Are the Best Choice
August 2026 While landscaping can be done any time during the year, August is not one of the best times to do it. During this month summer temperatures are still with us and typically rain for our...
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Bossier Parish Librairies: All About Lasagna
Bossier Parish Library Column – 31Annie Gilmer, Community Engagement Librarian July 29, 2026This week’s column topic is all about lasagna, partly because I didn’t expect even an unofficial holiday...
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Bossier History Center: Old Stories, New Storytelling
David McCullough once said, “History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” It is precisely this sort of sentiment that drove the creation of...
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Dr. Joe White – What Gardeners Do In Early August
July 2026One of our local forecasters said several weeks ago that “It’s already been some kind of year weather wise.” But it’s my guess that these days with triple digit temperatures or nearly so were...
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Bossier History Center Column: Rainy Days Behind Us
By Jonah Daigle, Bossier Parish History Center Whilst trawling through the older editions of the Bossier papers, there were two separate articles that caught my eye. At my time of writing, there was...
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Bossier Parish Library Column
Bossier Parish Library Column Annie Gilmer, Community Engagement Librarian July 22, 2026Now that the rainy days seem to be behind us, at least for the moment, and the temperatures climb it might be...
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Dr. Joe White: Summer Gardening
July 2026There is no question that southern summers are hot and commonly July is one of the hottest. While most gardeners will readily admit that it’s too hot for them to stay in their gardens for very...
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GARDENING WITH DR. JOE WHITE: VARIOUS FRUITS ARE NOW AVAILABLE FROM AREA FARMS
July 2026 Early July is perhaps one of the best times of the year to enjoy seasonal fruits and although watermelons are still available from Texas and likely also from other producing areas, it’s a...
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Edwald Max Hoyer: The Guardian of Bossier City
By Creshaun Harris, Bossier Parish Libraries History Center BOSSIER CITY, La. — Long before the engines of Barksdale Air Force Base echoed across the sky, and the loud lights of the casinos outlined...
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Bossier Parish Library Column
Bossier Parish Library Column Annie Gilmer, Community Engagement Librarian July 15, 2026Did you know that gummi worms have been around since 1981? They were introduced on July 15th by the German...
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GARDENING WITH DR. JOE WHITE: MAKE SUMMER LANDSCAPES MORE APPEALING WITH...
July 2026While July is hot as usual and rain is uncertain, keeping color in our landscape is often a challenge. But many of us are still enjoying the outdoors as we know that winter is not far away and...
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Population Growth Spurs Bossier’s Status as City
By Kevin Flowers, Bossier Parish History CenterJust as 2026 marks America’s 250th birthday, so too does the year mark a milestone for Bossier City. Exactly seventy-five years ago, Bossier officially...
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