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New speed-limit signs have been placed in Maurice.
New speed limit sign in Maurice
MAURICE — The Village of Maurice is a gateway to Vermilion Parish. With that comes a high volume of traffic, much of which travels at a high rate of speed. The main stretch through Maurice is famo...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Early voting begins Saturday for Gueydan election
Gueydan residents will get a chance to vote early, starting Saturday, to elect a new alderman to replace Manson Saltzman, who passed away. Running for Saltzman’s seat are Marilyn Camel and Angie To...
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Mayor Mark Piazza gives Kim Guidry the key to the city.
Abbeville awards Vermilion Catholic's Guidry key to city
Vermilion Catholic’s Kim Guidry has been in demand. Such is the case when you win a state championship, as Guidry and the Lady Eagles did earlier this month in capturing the Class 1A state title. T...
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Gueydan police chief says he's stepping down on April 1
GUEYDAN - A month ago Gueydan Police Chief Stoney Broussard told the aldermen and Gueydan Mayor David Dupuis he would be resigning at the end of the month. Broussard has 10 days left on the job. ...
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Vermilion Parish judge hands fines down to eight oyster fishermen
On Tuesday, eight oyster fishermen entered a no contest plea for several health and oyster violations in the 15th Judicial District Court of Louisiana in Vermilion Parish. The Honorable Judge Dur...
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Fishermen on the piers Monday before sunset. There is trash and old tires in front of the piers.
Vermilion Parish fisherman complains about trash at La. 82 fishing piers
Milton Mitchell likes to fish but he does not like to fish when there is trash on the ground around him. When he fishes on the fishing piers on La. 82, trash is what he sees, which prompts him to ...
Mar 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Charles Harrington
Vermilion Parish Grand Jury indicts father for allegedly killing son
The grand jurors of the 15th District Court in Vermilion Parish returned four indictments including a father for allegedly shooting his son and a Kaplan man for aggravated rape of a juvenile. B...
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Artist Lee Erickson of New York shows his painting Monday of the Vermilion Parish Courthouse. He was also there Tuesday afternoon.
New Yorker paints Vermilion Parish courthouse
Lee Erickson, full-time artist for the last 20 years, made a nearly 2,000-mile journey from his home in the Bronx, New York, to find himself Monday in Vermilion Parish. To be exact, Erickson found ...
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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...
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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...
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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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Rain continues to delay construction of North Vermilion Middle School
Mother Nature is not being too kind to the contractors who are trying to build a new North Vermilion Middle School. The new school will be located behind North Vermilion High School. Because of r...
Feb 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pictured is Kelbi LaShare, the Vermilion Parish Elementary School Student of the Year with her Dozier Elementary school leaders (left) Assistant Principal Natalie Hebert and (right) Principal Karla Toups.
Vermilion Parish Students of the Year named
Kelbi LaShare: Elementary ERATH - Dozier Elementary’s Kelbi LaShare was named the Vermilion Parish 2012-13 Student of the Year. Dozier Elementary Principal Karla Toups made the announcement on Feb...
Feb 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Vermilion Parish School Board Central Office.
School Board’s budget short $1.5 million so far; Increased cost of insurance, retirement contribution reasons why
Six months into the current fiscal year, financially, the Vermilion Parish School Board’s General Fund operations is $1.5 million behind the same period last year. The school board’s financial yea...
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Joey Russo (left) holds his award.
Abbeville's Joey Russo wins CCA's Volunteer of the Year Award
The Coastal Conservation Association of Louisiana inducted three new members into its Hall of Fame at the group’s State Convention held in Lafayette last weekend. In addition, CCA Louisiana recogn...
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Louisiana Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne speaks to students Thursday morning at the 50th Vermilion Parish Government Day. The event will conclude today at the Vermilion Parish Courthouse in Abbeville.
Students take part in 50th Vermilion Parish Government Day; Lt. Governor Dardenne among speakers Thursday
It is difficult to know exactly whose names will show up on election ballots in Vermilion Parish 15 to 20 years from now. There is a good chance, though, that many of those running for office in th...
Feb 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Amy Breaux
Family and friends plan to gather for a candlelight vigil for Amy Breaux in Gueydan
GUEYDAN - Amy Breaux’s family is not ready to let the person who ran over their daughter get away with what he or she did. Breaux was killed Aug. 25, 2012, when, as she was walking away from the G...
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Once the front of the building is redone, this is what it will look like. The building is located downtown Abbeville on Concord Street.
Front of 107-year-old building downtown Abbeville being restored; owner searches for old pictures of building
Robert Aguilar, owner of SPT Energy Group, LLC, approached the Abbeville Planning and Zoning Commission requesting a permit to restore the façade on his downtown business located at 107 Concord St...
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Photo by Missy Rosa The Abbeville firemen and UL football players take a group picture Saturday after the fundraiser at Black’s in Abbeville.
Abbeville Firemen team up with Cajuns to raise money
It is often commented on how those in Vermilion Parish step up for others. That shone once again Saturday when nearly 1,000 visited Black’s in downtown Abbeville to help raise money for Leukemia an...
Feb 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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This is one of 10 fake U.S. Post Office money orders a grocery store cashed.
Secret shopper scam costs Abbeville grocery store $8,700
There is one Abbeville grocery store that is out $8,700 thanks to a secret shopper ad an Abbeville resident found on the Internet. An Abbeville lady answered the Internet ad about trying to fin...
Feb 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 ...
Feb 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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