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City of Abbeville prepares to defend its cleanest city award
Last year the City of Abbeville was proud to bring home the "State Cleanest City Award" for District III and city officials hope to continue this as a yearly event. Keep Abbeville Beautiful and th...
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Vermilion Parish man gets jail time for killing his child in car accident
Bryan Christopher Adams reached a plea agreement with the state and was sentenced to five years at hard labor after agreeing to accept a negligent homicide plea instead of a vehicular homicide cha...
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Don Benoit stands in between two Super Bowl banners. On the left is New Orleans, who is loved by Tricia, Don’s wife. Don loves the 49ers and their five Super Bowl titles.
Super Bowl Bound: Benoit family attending game Sunday in New Orleans
The Benoit family from the North Vermilion area will be two of the more than 76,400 people inside the Superdome for the today’s Super Bowl. Back in August, Tricia and Don Benoit, who live near Le...
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Vermilion 4-H exhibitors dominate at Acadiana District Livestock Show
The 36th Annual Acadiana District Livestock Show was the second round of qualifying for Vermilion 4-H exhibitors working to advance to the 2013 State 4-H/FFA Livestock Show. The District show was ...
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Christian Galley was booked into the parish jail.
Abbeville man shoots another man with pellet gun; charged with attempted second degree murder
An 18-year-old Abbeville man learned that if you allegedly shoot and injure someone with a pellet gun, you can be charged with attempted second degree murder. That is what happened with 18-year-old...
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Anyone affected by BP oil spill can retrain to be a chef for free in Abbeville
Business was slow and you were laid off because of the BP oil spill in 2010 and now you are stuck in a dead-end job and can’t afford to be retrained for a new career? Good news. The St. Mary Commun...
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Rotarian Bernard Duhon talks to the students.
Vermilion Parish students think there is not enough sex education, drug education in schools
Not enough sex education and drug education in high schools was the all-around consensus held by high school students at the Abbeville Rotary’s New Generation Conference on Wednesday. Each year th...
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Vermilion Parish libraries will be getting E-Books to check out
The Vermilion Parish Library is proud to be a partner with the Bayouland E-Library Co-Op to make it possible for its patrons to check out free eBooks through the OverDrive eMedia Catalog. The curr...
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Greg Lutz, a professor and specialist with Louisiana Sea Grant and the LSU AgCenter, shows one of the tanks that will be used to raise and study alligators at the AgCenter’s new research facility in Baton Rouge
Alligator industry, LSU Ag Center research ways to better raise alligators
Alligator is showing up on more and more restaurant menus, but the biggest profit realized from these reptiles comes from the hides, which are used in high-end consumer goods such as purses, belts,...
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Two Vermilion Parish state representatives not buying Super Bowl tickets
Earlier this month the Louisiana legislators were offered bargain prices for Super Bowl XLVII tickets to Sunday’s football game. Saints owner Tom Benson sent them an E-mail explaining to them that...
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Professionals At Work: Royce Laseter
Starting this week, The Meridional will be highlighting business people in Vermilion Parish. This week’s profile is Royce Laseter from Gueydan He is 28 years old and is the sales manager at Ray C...
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Overall winner was Seth Gary (left), Taylor Mencacci (middle) was second and 12-year-old Holden Suire was third out of 225 runners.
First-ever Beignet-Boogie 5-K run huge success in Abbeville
When the idea to hold a 5-K run as a way to raise money for Vermilion Catholic and Mt. Carmel, the school was hoping for 50 runners. Well, Sunday morning, a whopping 225 completed the first-ever...
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Bessard was charged with attempted second degree murder. Bessard is only 19 years old.
Another shooting takes place in Abbeville; two arrested
Another shooting took place Monday morning in Abbeville, and the victim is being transported to a Baton Rouge hospital, while the alleged shooter has been arrested by the Abbeville Police Departmen...
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Top stories of 2012 in Vermilion Parish
The Abbeville Meridional compiled its Top 7 Stories for 2012 and five of the top seven stories dealt with tragedy, while one story shocked residents of Louisiana because it dealt with baby news. ...
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Kaplan mayor reflects on 2012
As the book gets ready to close on 2012, Mayor Kirk Champagne gave thought to the many accomplishments and challenges the city faced throughout the year. “Its exciting to be a part of the progress ...
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Honoring our firefighters
KAPLAN - Ronald Schexnider (center) donated a cement fireman’s statue and two plaques (shown below which hang in the Kaplan Fire Station) to honor an thank the firefighters for their valiant effort...
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Friends and family gather on Lamar Street last week after the shooting in Abbeville.
Abbeville Police Chief says department "close" to solving Broussard murder
In throwing hand grenades and horse shoes we were always taught “close” is great. In solving a murder, being “close” is good. “Close” is how Abbeville Police Chief Tony Hardy described where his de...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Assistant Fire Chief Carl Bruce Broussard is set to wrap up a 39-year career with the Abbeville Fire Department.
39-year career ends: Broussard retiring from Abbeville Fire Department, looking forward to time with family, traveling
Carl Bruce Broussard first put on a uniform for the Abbeville Fire Department on Feb. 12, 1974. Come this Saturday, he will have put it on for the last time. Broussard will officially retire after ...
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Betty Mergist displays the Christmas wafer.
Abbeville family continues Polish Tradition for Christmas
Before the Mergist family in Abbeville begins feasting on their Christmas meal today, they will do something that few Vermilion Parish residents do on Christmas Day. They will pass around a thin w...
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The Abbeville Police Department were called to Abbeville High Friday morning after the school received shooting threats from a telephone call.
Abbeville High ends partial lockdown after investigation turns up nothing
For the second time in three days, a Vermilion Parish school went on partial lockdown. When students and faculty arrived at Abbeville High School Friday at 6:45 a.m. they noticed two Abbeville pol...
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Louise discovered her son dead in her Abbeville home on Thursday.
Mom discovers son dead in her Abbeville home; Broussard's murder No. 7 in Abbeville
The last thing a mother wants to do is discover her son lying prone in a pool of blood in her home. But that was the scene when Louise came home from a Christmas party early Thursday afternoon. Lou...
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Julie Romero plans to send her huggable Jesus and Mary dolls to the families of the shooting victims and each student at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. The 19-inch dolls are $25 and the 23-inch dolls go for $35.
Kaplan’s Romero raising money to send 'huggable Jesus' dolls to Sandy Hook Elementary
KAPLAN — A hug can be a powerful thing in a time of need. A Hug From Heaven, well, that can make all the difference in the world. Julie Romero, whose company, Hugs From Heaven, LLC, produces hugga...
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Parents of students who attend EHS were expressing their feelings on Facebook about a student possibly shooting certain people. After an investigation by Police Chief Gerald Hebert, the chief said there is no 'hit list.'
Erath police chief investigates 'hit list" rumor at Erath High; he finds no truth to it
In wake of what occurred in Newtown, Conn. six days ago, joking about shooting someone is being taken seriously in the Vermilion Parish Public School System. At Erath High School, Erath Police Chie...
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Vermilion/Muncipal Task Force arrests five on drug charges
The Vermilion / Municipal Narcotics Task Force recently made the following drug related arrests: After receiving information that illicit narcotics were being sold and transported out of a certain ...
Dec 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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