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Timber bridge to close Tuesday on La. 35
Beginning at 8:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 5, 2013, a timber bridge on La. 35 in Vermilion Parish approximately 6.8 miles north of LA 82 near Forked Island will be closed to traffic. The work will take...
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Abbeville Library’s ‘Bits and Bites’ program Monday to explain tech devices
Technology is abundant in everyday life. Smart phones and tablets have become common tools in the daily routine of many. New tech items are being introduced all the time. The gadgets are exciting ...
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Skie Sagrera
Vermilion Parish, two other parishes unite to form coastal protection board
Vermilion Parish, along with Calcasieu and Cameron parishes, just got a little closer to getting help to save their coastlines. On Thursday, a group of nine people, consisting of the Chenier Plain...
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Ducks enjoy visiting Vermilion Parish in the winter months.
Vermilion Parish benefits financially from the millions of ducks in the parish
Ducks seem to love Vermilion Parish, and the parish loves ducks and how they benefit the parish each year. Each year, just over nine million ducks fly south and call Vermilion and Cameron Parish ho...
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Abbeville electricity rates going down in 2014
The Abbeville City Council voted 5-0 Tuesday at a special meeting to execute an agreement with a new provider of the city’s electricity. Representatives of the new provider, Constellation, a Baltim...
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Unrestrained Driver Dies in Crash
VERMILION PARISH — Wednesday morning, Troopers with Louisiana State Police Troop I investigated a single vehicle fatal crash on LA Highway 82 at Gallet Road which claimed the life of a Youngsville ...
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Vermilion Parish School Board continues to deal with finding personnel and retiring teachers
Six months into the school year, there is a still a revolving door when it comes to School Board personnel. Thus far, there have been a total of 135 teachers and personnel who have retired. Prio...
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Weiner Dog Race in Erath on Saturday
The Vermilion Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce the date of our third annual Wiener Dog Race. All you two-person pet crews start getting revved up for the second annual Wiener Dog Race on...
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Abbeville sixth grader found with bag of marijuana at middle school
The Abbeville Police Department charged a sixth grader, who was at J.H. Williams Middle School, with possession of marijuana. Recently, the police were called to J.H. Williams when another student ...
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$5,000 of merchandise stolen from house in Abbeville
A homeowner on South Louisiana Street in Abbeville returned home from work and discovered there was close to $5,000 worth of merchandise stolen from her home. The Abbeville Police were able to get ...
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Traffic stop, undercover stings lead to arrests by Vermilion/Muncipal Task Force
According to Sheriff Mike Couvillon, Chief Tony Hardy and Chief Boyd Adams, the Vermilion / Municipal task force made following arrests recently for drug related offense. -While working criminal pa...
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Charlene Beckett, Sandra Creswell and Odile Segrest talk about the play.
Vermilion Parish residents will put on folk-life play about local citizens
This spring, Vermilion Parish residents will be putting on a folk-life play about residents from Vermilion Parish. The idea to do this came about when Abbeville native Mike Hollier traveled to Col...
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The following administrators were recognized at Thursday's School Board meeting: Pictured L to R: Joan Romero, Assistant Principal at North Vermilion, Marc Turner, Assistant Principal at Kaplan High, Leslie Green, Counselor at Gueydan High, Greg Theriot, Principal at North Vermilion High, Susie Stephen, Principal at Meaux Elementary, Karla Toups, Principal at Dozier Elementary, and Natalie Hebert, Assistant Principal at Dozier Elementary.
Four Vermilion Parish schools earn Top Gains
To recognize schools that make significant growth from one year to the next, Louisiana designates schools that achieve their growth target as a Top Gains school if they are not in subgroup componen...
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The white car came to a stop in between two trees. The driver crawled out of the car and walked away from the accident. She was transported to a hospital.
Lafayette woman escapes serious injury in single-car accident on La. 167 in Vermilion Parish
The driver of a wrecked car escaped serious injury Monday morning after her car veered off the road, crossed a fence and smashed into a tree in the front yard of Carrol Duhon’s house on La. 167. Th...
Jan 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jerome Puyau
Puyau officially takes over as the new superintendent of public schools in Vermilion Parish
On Thursday, Jerome Puyau (pronounced P.O.) officially took over as the new superintendent of the Vermilion Parish public school system. He has been in the Vermilion Parish School system since 199...
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The building is 31 years old and the inside of the building was destroyed by fire last year.
Abbeville's RiverFront Restaurant will be torn down on Friday
RiverFront Restaurant, which is located on the Vermilion River in downtown Abbeville, is being torn down Friday. Co-owners Jenny LeBlanc and Brian Rush have decided, after talking to an architect,...
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Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, located in eastern Cameron and western Vermilion Parishes, photo taken January 14 causes a debate.
Was it Mother Nature or man made?
GUEYDAN - Two weeks later there is still signs of the worst flooding in our area since 1942. Because of the millions of gallons of water that recently inundated homes, farm land, and roads many are...
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Charlotte Waguespack will be walking out of the school board office for the final time Wednesday.
Charlotte Waguespack's last day on the job for the Vermilion Parish School Board is Wednesday
Charlotte Waguespack’s last day working for the Vermilion Parish School Board is Wednesday. It was an end to a 36 year education career. Jerome Puyau is now the new superintendent. Randy Schex...
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Wi-Fi is now available in Magdalen Square. Displaying the technology at the square’s gazebo are (first row L to R) Abbeville Councilman Wayne Landry, Mayor Mark Piazza, Film and Visitor Commissioner Tony Mayard and Film and Visitors Chairman Gale Luquette. The back row includes Councilman Brady Broussard Jr., Councilman Francis Plaisance, KTC Telecom’s Nell Faulk and Richard Hebert, who helped install the equipment.
Wi-Fi now offered in Abbeville's Magdalen Square
Magdalen Square can offer a good view of Historic Downtown Abbeville. Now, thanks to Abbeville and its Film and Visitors Commission, the square can offer a view of the world, at least via the Inter...
Jan 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Johnnie Theall Jr.
Vermilion/Municipal Task Force busts Kaplan man for allegedly manufacturing meth
According to Sheriff Mike Couvillon, Chief Tony Hardy and Chief Boyd Adams, the Vermilion / Municipal task force made following arrests recently for drug related offense. After receiving informatio...
Jan 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gladys Briggs enjoys sitting on her porch in Abbeville during the day.
Briggs not worried about living in tough area of Abbeville
Gladys Briggs lives in one of the dangerous neighborhoods in Abbeville. Her house is smack in the middle of what is known as “The Front.” Despite living there for 32 years, Briggs is not scared. T...
Jan 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Linda Ledet has been with Abbeville General since 1966.
Four ladies at Abbeville General Hospital have 196 combined years of experience
Abbeville General Hospital opened its doors on February 2, 1966 and four ladies who were hired that first year to work in the hospital can still be found working in the hospital today. For the las...
Jan 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Aaron Trahan is the grand marshal of the MLK Parade.
Aaron Trahan to serve as grand marshal of Abbeville's MLK Day Parade
Aaron Trahan had many goals in life, retiring at 55 among them. Trahan, a 1962 graduate of James A. Herod High School in Abbeville and currently a resident of Delcambre, came up short of that goal...
Jan 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Transportation Superintendent Ken Small (left), Gary Landry, shop superintendent, and mechanics Paul Stott and Mike Rodrigue show off the eight new parish school buses.
Eight new buses included to what Vermilion Parish transportation superintendent calls ‘one of the best fleets in the state’
Vermilion Parish Superintendent of Transportation Ken Small has been on the job since July...and he is enjoying the work. “I love my job,” Small said. “I’m still excited about going to work every d...
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