City of Ruston

Louisiana Tech University and City of Ruston Main Street are teaming up to celebrate High Octane Heroes.  Help us kick off this season right at the Louisiana Tech Pep Rally for the first home game versus Navy.  The Pep Rally will be held at 11:00am on Saturday, September 18th in Railroad Park. 

This Heroes Pep Rally will have a dual focus – to celebrate our local military and to emphasize the breast cancer awareness initiative. 

During the Pep Rally, Jimmie Mize will be honored as the first Louisiana Legend this season.     Joining Mize will be recent Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame inductee Theresa Witherspoon and the Lady Techster basketball team as they focus on breast cancer survivors.

Randy Moore and Principal Entertainment will provide plenty of energy before and after the pep rally.  Tech's cheerleaders and Regal Blues will join the Band of Pride in keeping things moving, and high school cheerleaders and dance lines will also perform with the Tech groups.  Local Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will be on hand to distribute information, and 100 game tickets will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis.  You will also find participation from the National Guard, firefighters, and other special entities. 

Look for participating downtown merchants to offer discounts to customers wearing the official Tech t-shirt and to take part in the most spirited store competition.

Join us at this special Pep Rally to celebrate the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs and our community’s numerous High Octane Heroes.

The 2010 Squire Creek Louisiana Peach Festival opens its 60th run June 25 in downtown Ruston.  The three-day event includes arts and crafts, children’s activities, music in Ruston’s historic Railroad Park, food, a parade, sporting events, a pet show, peach cookery contest, peach eating contest, a rodeo, antique car show, and plenty of Ruston peaches.  This year is the festival’s Diamond Anniversary, and is dedicated to the memory of the late J.E. Mitcham, Sr., long-time Ruston peach grower and one of the festival’s founders. Mitcham died in March at age 92.

For more information call the Ruston-Lincoln Chamber of Commerce at 255-2031 or visit www.louisianapeachfestival.org or text Lapeach at 69302.

The City of Ruston now has Twitter and Facebook pages. Along with visitng www.ruston.org, you can stay up to date with events in Ruston by visiting the following links.

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The City of Ruston is wrapping up the pilot implementation phase of its Smart Metering system. In case you would like more information about this system, please view this SmartGrid brochure. It gives an explain what the AMI system is,the goals and benefits.

City of Ruston SmartGrid Brochure

You can also find additional information about Ruston's Smart Metering system here.