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Donald Stelly
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 the following arrests recently for drug-related offenses. • Michael Lancon (Da...
Mar 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Abbeville Mayor Mark Piazza (seated fourth from left) signed a proclamation Monday morning in honor of Clean City Awareness Week. Members of the Abbeville City Council, Keep Abbeville Beautiful and the Abbeville Garden Club gathered at city hall to kick off the week. Seated (left to right) in the first row are Councilman Francis Touchet, Sandra Creswell, Todd Travasos, Mayor Mark Piazza, Councilman Wayne Landry, Councilman Brady Broussard Jr., and Councilman Francis Plaisance. Standing on the second row are (left to right) Janice McComber, Charlene Beckett, Liz Gremillion, Patsy Hebert, Sandra Marant, Richard Watkins and Charles Dill.
Abbeville recognizes Clean City Awareness Week
For the City of Abbeville to retain its State Cleanest City title, citizens need to become aware of its litter problem and be part of the solution to keep Abbeville beautiful and litter free. To a...
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Delafose to kick off Sounds on the Square
Four weeks of free outdoor concerts in Magdalen Square feature a variety of musical genres and some of Louisiana favorite hometown and visiting bands the 2013 Spring Sounds on the Square begins wit...
Mar 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jeffrey Faulk
4-H Achievement Day will honor Vermilion's Jeffrey Faulk on Saturday
The 2013 Vermilion Parish 4-H Achievement Day will be held this Saturday at Kaplan High School. The day will be dedicated to long-time 4-H supporter and leader Jeffrey Faulk. He will be honored...
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Seafood, Farmers Market in Delcambre on Saturday
DELCAMBRE - The new Delcambre Seafood & Farmers Market opens Saturday, from 8 am - 1 pm under the oaks of the Shrimp Festival grounds. The Delcambre Market will offer seafood, produce, plants, an...
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Erath residents complain to police chief about music two miles away being too loud
ERATH - Erath Police Chief Gerald Hebert has a music problem, and he looked to the Erath aldermen for an answer. Hebert has been the chief of police for just under eight years and in that time, ...
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Kaplan chief warns citizens of phone scam involving police donations
Several citizens in Vermilion Parish, as well as many others around Acadiana, have received phone calls asking for police donations. Kaplan Police Chief Boyd Adams is among those who have received ...
Mar 13, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tristan Champagne
Vermilion Parish Task Force arrest five with drugs
According to Sheriff Mike Couvillon, Abbeville Police Chief Tony Hardy and Kaplan Police Chief Boyd Adams, the Vermilion / Municipal Task Force made following arrests recently for drug related offe...
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Erath, Delcambre aldermen do not have the money now to fund new economic development department
ERATH - Vermilion Parish Police Juror Paul Bourgeois Jr. made his sales pitch to try and get a financial commitment from the towns Erath and Delcambre to help create a Vermilion Parish Economic D...
Mar 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lafayette man who is charged in OWI death of Abbeville woman gets another OWI
The alleged driver who caused an accident that killed Bobbie Tinker of Abbeville two years ago received another OWI last week, according to the Lafayette Police Department. Dallas Fabre, 49, was ...
Mar 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Course choice expands educational opportunities for students
BATON ROUGE — Online registration for the Louisiana Course Choice Program at www.LouisianaCourseChoice.net is now available for students across the state. Course Choice will provide students access...
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Cameron Libersat (left) and Ty Miller (middle) are shown here with their AHS Agriculture teacher Shane Theall (right). Libersat and Miller placed first in team welding in a parishwide welding tournament, while Miller placed first individually and Libersat second. AHS hosted the tournament Thursday, March 7.
Abbeville students top welders; Miller, Libersat won first place in contest
Abbeville High School hosted Vermilion Parish’s annual welding contest Thursday, and two of its students earned top honors in both team and individual welding. Ty Miller, a freshman at Abbeville Hi...
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Trina Edwards is 12 weeks pregnant.
Former Gov. Edwin Edwards will be a daddy again; his wife makes announcement she is pregnant
Six months ago, former Gov. Edwin Edwards and his wife Trina were in Erath when he stunned his wife and those in the audience when he said he and his wife were going to start trying to have a baby....
Feb 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gueydan residents recently attended the February 4, Gueydan Town Council Meeting with concerns about high utilities bills and the recent flooding.
Town council answers questions
GUEYDAN - Residents of Gueydan recently attended the Gueydan Town Council meeting to sound off on problems and issues in their neighborhoods and an opportunity to ask questions about the high rate ...
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Kayla Gaspard Robles, her husband, and his family, are stuck on a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico.
Abbeville native Robles 'doing well' on stranded cruise ship, expected to be heading home late Thursday
After spending five days stranded on the disabled Carnival Triumph, Kayla Gaspard Robles, an Abbeville native, will soon be headed home. The ship is expected to dock in Mobile, Ala., sometime late ...
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D'Andrea Jamal Senegal was charged with two counts of first degree murder.
Two Abbeville brothers killed by 17-year-old on Mardi Gras morning
There was not much celebration for the Guidry family on Mardi Gras morning. Two brothers, Mike Guidry, 24, and Gary Guidry, who turned 25 years old on Tuesday, were shot dead in their home Tuesd...
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Erath and North Vermilion band students take a picture together in Mississippi.
Vermilion Parish band students leave Hattiesburg hours before tornado hits
Sunday morning there were 23 band students from Vermilion Parish who were grateful they did not witness tornadoes that ripped through Hattiesburg, Miss. The students were in Hattiesburg hours earl...
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These four guns were located during a drug bust.
Task Force locates four guns, drugs in a home north of Erath
The Vermilion Parish Task Force located what looks to be a pound of marijuana, along with four guns in a home north of Erath. Task Force agents received information in reference to persons po...
Feb 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Roberta Boudreaux’s mission is to find ways to make the parish jail run smoothly and cheaper.
Job: Save Vermlion Parish taxpayers money
Roberta Boudreaux was hired five years ago by the police jury to save Vermilion Parish taxpayers money. Thus far, she has saved the taxpayers just under $2 million. Boudreaux, who lives in Lydia,...
Feb 07, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Six months later and Amy Breaux’s death is still a mystery.
Lets keep Amy Breaux in the news
GUEYDAN - For the Breaux family, whose daughter, sister and mother’s murderer has never been brought to justice, this “cold case” is one too many for our small community. There has not been a break...
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Blair Cordell King is wanted in an armed robbery.
Burglar suspect found
Chief of Police Boyd Adams has reported that a suspect wanted in a home invasion which took place on the 300 block of West Third last night has been found in Crowley. Blair Cordell King, original...
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The Maurice police officer was driving this car.
Maurice police officer turns himself into Sheriff's Office
At 1 p.m. on Wednesday Willie Thomas, a Maurice police officer, turned himself into the Vermilion Parish jail after a Vermilion Parish Grand Jury indicted Willis Thomas on negligent homicide ch...
Feb 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Vermilion/Municipal Task Force busts three alleged drug dealers
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. - Sheb Chase Callahan (dob...
Feb 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Paul Suire's car on the left and the Maurice police car on the right.
Maurice police officer indicted for car accident that killed 83-year-old Abbeville man
From staff reports On Tuesday, a Vermilion Parish Grand Jury indicted Maurice Police Officer Willis Thomas for negligent homicide in the death of Paul Suire. The grand jury came back with the dec...
Feb 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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