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Vermilion Parish School Board plans to buy two more defibrillators
Vermilion Parish School Board Nurse Supervisor Judy Schexnayder presented the school board with information on the Automated External Defibrillator (AEDs) located in parish schools. Currently, AED...
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Vermilion/Municipal Task Force stops three in Kaplan
The Vermilion / Municipal Narcotics Task Force made three arrests after conducting undercover stings in the city of Kaplan. Agents received information that a certain vehicle was riding around the ...
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'Scare on the Square' set for Monday in Abbeville
Let’s be honest, all kids want on Halloween is candy...and the best place to find the sweet stuff may just be in Downtown Abbeville. For the 17th straight year, the Abbeville branch of the Vermilio...
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Safety urged Monday during Trick-or-Treating
“Scare on the Square” is expected to bring thousands to the downtown Abbeville area Monday for the annual Halloween event. Abbeville Police Tony Hardy urges drivers to be aware of children Trick-or...
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Abbeville boat launch looking good; almost complete
The boat ramp near the old Pub in Abbeville is taking shape and close to being opened for public use. For the last eight weeks construction has been taking place to restore the old boat launch into...
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Megan Mouton, a fourth-grade student at the 7th Ward Elementary School, digs a hole for a survey benchmark to be set in concrete. LSU AgCenter 4‑H agents visited schools throughout the parish in September and October to tell 4-H Clubs about the threat of coastal erosion and subsidence to their parish, and how to prepare.
Vermilion Parish 4-H’ers set elevation benchmarks at schools
MOUTON COVE – Vermilion Parish 4-H leaders have been teaching two new words to 4-H Club members throughout the parish: resilient and subsidence. In order to live in much of Vermilion Parish, studen...
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The front office at Herod was broken into.
Vermilion Parish School Board offering reward for information dealing with break-ins of three schools
Still no suspects in who may have broken into three Abbeville schools, but the School Board is offering a $1,000 reward in hopes someone comes forward with information. After the second break-in, E...
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Chad Briggs gets DWI offense reduced from 3rd to 2nd offense
Chad Joseph Briggs of 701 S. East in Abbeville was facing a third DWI offense, but before the trial began in the 15th Judicial Courthouse in Abbeville, the state amended the charge to DWI second ...
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Michael Guidry
Vermilion/Municipal Task Force arrests five
The Vermilion / Municipal Narcotics Task Force conducted the following narcotics stings and arrests recently. While working criminal narcotics patrol agents recognized a man who had an outstanding ...
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St. John’s Catholic Church is now high off the ground.
St. John's Catholic Church in Henry will reopen this Saturday after lifting renovations
HENRY — The St. John’s Catholic Church is ready to reopen its doors. For the first time since April, parishioners will attend mass in the church building. That will take place this Saturday at 4 p...
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Broussard thanks co-workers for helping her win her third term as Vermilion Parish's clerk of court
If you look at the wall to the left when you enter the clerk of court’s office in Vermilion Parish, one of the first things you notice is that the wall has pictures of men and one woman. The men a...
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Abbeville High graduate wins BESE Board seat
History may have been made Saturday when Holly Boffy, an Abbeville High graduate, was elected as a new Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) member. Boffy unseated incumbe...
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Hubert Faulk, President of the Waterworks District #1 cuts the ribbon celebrating the opening of the new water treatment plant west of Kaplan. Also attending were representatives of the USDA, LRWA, Vermilion Parish Police Jurors, Water Works District #1, and Sellers and Associates.
Ribbon cutting held at new water plant
USDA State Director for Rural Development in Louisiana, Clarence W. Hawkins, traveled to Vermilion Parish to recognize Earth Day and celebrate Waterworks District #1 new water treatment and product...
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Bill Oliver talks to Abbeville Kiwanians at Tuesday's meeting.
Hwy. 167 will be resurfaced one day, says DOTD engineer
Bill Oliver of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) promised the Abbeville Kiwanians that Hwy. 167 from Maurice to Abbeville will be overlaid. What he could not promise...
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Maurice man arrested for solicitation of a minor on computer
Louisiana State Police detectives assigned to the Lafayette Field Office, and deputies from the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office, arrested a Maurice man for online solicitation of a minor. In la...
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Patrick Duhon served in Iraq while in the Army.
Vermilion Parish residents react to news of death of bin Laden
Nearly 10 years after he struck a blow to the U.S., Osama bin Laden is dead and locals react to the news. Celebrations erupted around the country Sunday night after President Barrack Obama announce...
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Air Force Capt. Arthur Davidson (right) receives his honor.
Davidson receives Air Force honor
A former Abbeville resident, Captain Arthur (Art) Davidson (right), United States Air Force, received the Wing-level Company Grade Officer of the Month Award for February, 2011, during his tour of ...
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Bob Hensgens
Gueydan mayor wins state representative race
GUEYDAN - Bob Hensgens can thank the people in Cameron Parish because it was their votes that gave him the victory in the District 47 race. Hensgens outgained Linda Hardee 663 to 302 votes in Camer...
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Hensgens leads in District 47 race
With 45 out of 47 precincts reporting in Cameron and Vermilion Parish, Gueydan mayor Bob Hensgens looks to have won the District 47 Representative Race with 3421 votes to 3147 over Linda Hardee. T...
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Doxey teaches fun art classes
Ever since she was a child, local artist, Jennifer Doxey, has been coloring, drawing, painting or creating things. Now, as an adult, she is beginning to fulfill her dreams as an art teacher by brin...
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Daniel Hernandez is now a free man.
Grand Jury does not return true bill against Abbeville man arrested for manslaughter at Dee's Lounge
The Vermilion Parish Grand Jury returned no true bill against Daniel Hernandez, who was being charged with manslaughter in the death of Jason Duhon because of a fight at Dee’s Lounge in Abbeville. ...
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Ria Laseter at the finish line after she completed the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Houston. Ria was among the hundreds of participants that completed the event.
Gueydan woman walks 39 miles to raise money for cancer
Ria Laseter walked in the 39-mile Avon Walk for Breast Cancer recently in Houston. After training for several months she took on the task of walking the walk and raising $1,910 to help fight bre...
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Funeral arrangements made for Erath man who died in motorcycle accident
Funeral services will be held Friday in Erath for Robert Everett Ross, 46, who died in a single vehicle motorcycle accident in Iberia Parish. The crash occurred Wednesday morning around 8:20 a.m. ...
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The courthouse was busy with early voting on Saturday.
District 47 Representative candidates stay busy in Vermilion, Cameron parishes
With days before the District 47 Representative special election, the two candidates are still busy trying to win votes. Bob Hensgens of Gueydan and Linda Hardee of Kaplan have been busy campaignin...
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