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Vermilion Parish graduations begin this week
More than 550 students will bid farewell to their respective high schools this week. Beginning Thursday, schools around Vermilion Parish will hold graduation ceremonies to honor the four years of...
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Krislyn Romero is all smiles because she is graduating from Erath High School on Saturday.
Erath High senior overcomes family adversity to graduate with 4.0 GPA
ERATH - Krislyn Romero is smiling today because the future is bright for the graduating blond-hair, blue-eyed Erath High senior. But that was not always the case. There are benefits to growing up ...
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Bishop assigns 2 new priests to Vermilion Parish
Bishop Michael Jarrell of the Diocese of Lafayette has announced several new pastoral assignments which are scheduled to take effect on July 1, 2013. Vermilion Parish will be getting new priests, ...
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New pavilion unveiled Monday in Erath park
ERATH — The Town of Erath and the Twin Parish Port Commission announced the completion and opening of the newly constructed Erath Park Pavilion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday afternoon in...
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Gueydan's Zaunbrecher appointed to Water Resources Commission
BATON ROUGE – Governor Bobby Jindal announced appointments to the Water Resources Commission. Appointments to the Water Resources Commission: • Linda Zaunbrecher, of Gueydan, is a rice farmer and t...
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Abbeville council approves funds for Main St. overlay
The dust is about to settle on Main Street. The Abbeville City Council approved Tuesday at its regular meeting to fund the patch and overlay South Main Street. The project will repair cuts to the r...
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Delcambre seafood, farmers market cancelled
The Market scheduled for tomorrow, May 11 has been cancelled; the grand opening of the Delcambre Seafood & Farmers Market has been postponed until the next scheduled Market date of June 1. As plann...
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Water escapes from a boken water hydrant in Abbeville.
Vermilion Parish Police Jury employee runs over Abbeville water hydrant; city loses thousands of gallons of water Friday morning
A Vermilion Parish Police Jury truck driver turned too short and ran over an Abbeville water hydrant late Friday morning, breaking the hydrant off the five-inch water line. For at least two hours, ...
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Caroline Poche of Erath Middle School
Two Vermilion Parish students elected top officers for State Jr. Beta Club
At the Louisiana Jr. Beta Convention held at the Cajundome recently, two Vermilion Parish schools campaigned for a Jr. Beta dynamic duo, and together the two walke ad away with the coveted top le...
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Abbeville's own John Cecil McCrory will be inducted into state 4-H Hall of Fame on Saturday
Abbeville’s own John Cecil McCrory, 20 years after his death, is being honored Saturday as the newest member of the Louisiana 4-H Hall of Fame. The ceremony will take place in Mansura, starting at ...
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Abbeville City Council adopts new guidelines for putting signs, billboard
Billboards and signs are meant by design to grab attention. Both have drawn the attention of the Abbeville City Council. The group voted Tuesday during an ordinance committee on changes to regulati...
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Vermilion Task Force arrest three with drugs
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. • On May 4, agents with ...
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Patrol deputies respond to call early Saturday morning.
Investigation begins into Saturday morning homicide
According to the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Department, at approximately 6:38 a.m. on Saturday, May 11, patrol deputies responded to a call of a vehicle in a field located off of Perkins Rd. Upon a...
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The oil field tank continues to burn Friday at noon.
Oil field storage tank burns north of Erath; may have been struck by lightning
An oil field storage tank north of Erath on Albert Road continues to burn Friday afternoon after possibly catching fire after being struck by lighting. The Erath and Delcambre volunteer fire depart...
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Abbeville Police Chief Tony Hardy
Abbeville Mayor, Police Chief not proud of reputation Abbeville is getting because of 7 murders in 12 months
Over the last 12 months, Abbeville has a murder rate of 1 per 1,700 people. It’s not a statistic anyone who lives in the city is proud of. For the mayor and chief of police of Abbeville, that st...
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Gueydan New Chief of Police sworn in
Gueydan City attorney Edward G. Saal, Jr. recently had the pleasure to swear in Kayla Henry as Gueydan’s new Chief of Police.
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The Abbeville fire department put out the engine fire.
Abbeville city worker's truck catches fire near Abbeville city hall
Abbeville City worker Kenneth Hargrave turned into the parking lot of Abbeville City Hall and noticed smoke was coming from his engine of the city's Ford work truck Thursday at around 10 in the mor...
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Vermilion/Municipal Task Force makes three more arrests
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. - On 5-6-13 agents ...
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Shane Vincent arrested in connection to baby's death
Abbeville Police arrested Shane Jude Vincent Tuesday in connection to the death of three-month-old Jayla Broussard. Police made the arrest after a Vermilion Parish Grand Jury indicted Vincent, 25,...
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Vermilion Parish temporarily has to shut down its recycling program due to Lafayette fire
Due to a fire of the Lafayette’s Recycling Foundation recycling plant two months ago, the Vermilion Parish Police Jury is having to temporarily shut down its recycling program. Linda Duhon, the pa...
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Vermilion Parish in need of 60 teachers for next school year.
While school is winding down for students and teachers, local public school principals have been busy interviewing candidates to fill 60 vacant teaching positions. The Vermilion Parish school sys...
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Chester Montgomery
Attempted kidnapping, armed robbery in Abbeville
Saturday at approximately 8:45 p.m., the Abbeville Police Department responded to a complaint of a female who was abducted and held at knife point while returning to her vehicle from shoppin...
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Trash recently picked up around the four piers.
Vermilion Parish Police Jury still undecided what to do with four fishing piers
The four piers along La. 82, south of Forked Island, still have life for now. The reason they have life is because the Vermilion Parish Police Jury has yet to figure out what to do with them. The p...
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Alligators are a popular tourist attraction in Vermilion Parish.
Vermilion Parish sees increase in tourism; interest in area up in 2012
Interest in Vermilion Parish is growing. More than 800 people stopped by the Vermilion Parish Visitors Center and more than 500 people called to request information on the area in 2012. And nearly ...
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