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The Best Stop Supermarket is celebrating its 40th anniversary today at its original Scott location with Cajun food and family traditions, and the family-owned business has grown since 1986 into multiple locations, nationwide shipping, and a USDA-certified wholesale facility.

UL guard Jamyron Keller will open the season at 7 p.m. Monday against Akron in the Cajundome after rehabbing a season-ending foot injury that sidelined him after two games last year; he spent the summer rebuilding strength and plans to play as a combo guard to help the Ragin' Cajuns.

Live scores and updates tracked Friday night for Week 9 high school football across Acadiana, with big matchups that included Southside at Acadiana, Lafayette Renaissance at Westgate, and Ascension Episcopal at Vermilion Catholic (also Westminster-Lafayette at Jeanerette and LCA at Delcambre); readers could submit scores via the Scorestream app.

St. Martinville received $50,000 in state funding to demolish adjudicated blighted properties, an appropriation secured by Rep. Marcus Bryant to help improve neighborhoods.

Lafayette is investing $800,000 in drainage repairs to stabilize rapid erosion at an outfall near Southpark that threatened nearby business foundations.

Ji Daily was named executive director of Lafayette Habitat for Humanity, replacing Melinda Taylor who retired after 26 years; Daily was director of construction for the organization from 2020 to 2023 and brings decades of construction management experience (including work on the Pentagon and D.C. Court of Appeals).

Friday night, FNL 26 Week 9 high school football featured LRCA at Westgate, Beau Chene at Carencro, Church Point at Northwest, and Southside at Acadiana, and Westgate retired Houston Texans receiver Kayshon Boutte’s jersey during halftime.

Lafayette Christian Academy beat Delcambre 49-0 on Friday at The Pit, staying perfect in district play as Ty Hills threw three TD passes and the ground game scored multiple times.

The Knights will travel to Catholic High of New Iberia next week to try to clinch the District 8-2A crown.

The Best Stop is marking 40 years in business after growing from a small grocery in Scott into one of Louisiana’s best-known Cajun food brands, and the story spotlights its food, traditions, and people.