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Abbeville council eliminates two boards
The Abbeville City Council recently voted to eliminate a pair of advisory boards. Abbeville Mayor Mark Piazza said given the current situations surrounding their reasons for existing, the city’s R...
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Vermilion Parish School Board discusses sports safety
The Vermilion Parish School Board discussed Act 314 (SB 189), which went into effect June 28, and created the Youth Concussion Act. According to the Louisiana Association of Justice (LAJ), the law ...
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Dozier
Vermilion / Municipal Task Force makes arrest
On Aug. 3 the Vermilion / Municipal Narcotics Task Force received information that on Deshawn Dozier (dob 8-29-78) of 309 Lyman was allegedly selling marijuana within the city of Abbeville. The t...
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This building, located at 700 Charity Street. is no longer the Vermilion Parish School Board Parenting Center. It is now the Adult Education Center and GED Testing Site.
Parenting Center now Adult Education Center
Due to budgetary constraints, what has been known as the Vermilion Parish School Board Parenting Center for the past eight years, will now be the School Board’s Adult Education Center and Testing S...
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Kaplan native Laney N. Marceaux recently graduated from basic training.
Kaplan’s Marceaux completes basic training with U.S. Air Force
Air Force Airman Laney N. Marceaux graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included trainin...
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Christian Richard
Two Vermilion Parish farmers land on USA Rice Producers’ board
Two Vermilion Parish farmers, Christian Richard and Linda Zaunbrecher, were recently named to the USA Rice Producer’s Group. John Owen, a rice farmer from Rayville, La., was elected vice chairman...
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LeBlanc Assistant Principal Kim Etie (far right) shows the Abbeville Rotary Club one of the school’s kindergarten classes during a tour Wednesday.
LeBlanc Elementary ready to go; Abbeville Rotary Club gets preview of new school
ERATH — The start of the school year brings many new things for students. For those students attending LeBlanc Elementary, the new school year means a new home. On Aug. 16, the school, located on a...
Aug 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Abbeville Council discusses grass, bike ordinances
Recent days of rain have let up allowing Abbeville residents to mow their lawns. Some of the clippings have ended up in streets, something officials do not want to see. The Abbeville City Council ...
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Vining invites citizens to day of prayer, fasting
On Saturday, Aug. 6, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has called, and is hosting, “A Day of Prayer and Fasting for our Nation.” In calling the event, Gov. Perry said, “With the economy in trouble, communi...
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Abbeville High principal Ivy Landry walks the empty halls.
School orientation underway in Vermilion Parish
Students in Vermilion Parish learn throughout the school year; those same students also learn before school starts. Orientations began this week in Vermilion, with Erath High and Erath Middle welco...
Aug 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sheriff Gordan Sandoz
‘Gris-Gris’ may have protected 1936 slasher from Abbeville
Some of the more mature citizens of Vermilion Parish and surrounding areas probably remember one of the biggest man hunts of the 1930s. Sheriff Gordon P. Sandoz of Vermilion Parish and his deput...
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Police Jury stuck paying juvenile detention bills
According to a 15th Judicial District judge’s ruling, the Vermilion Parish Police Jury is not only responsible for taking care of the roads and ditches in the parish, but it is finding out it is a...
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Rep. Jonathan Perry
Kaplan's Perry to run for senator's seat
State Representative Jonathan Perry has announced he will run for the State Senate seat vacated by Senator Nick Gautreaux, who has resigned to accept a position in the Department of Motor Vehicles...
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Sen. Nick Gautreaux
Senator Gautreaux to resign
Sen. Nick Gautreaux will resign as a Louisiana senator, according to a Christmas greeting parish residents received Tuesday night. The message does not say when is his last day, but sources clo...
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The soldiers climb off the bus after a five-hour bus ride.
Father, son from Abbeville return with 256th
There were 30 National Guard troops from Vermilion Parish and around Louisiana who returned to Abbeville yesterday from Iraq. A father and son returned home yesterday to the arms of their family. ...
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Task Force arrest two with drugs
The Vermilion / Municipal Narcotics Task Force conducted undercover operations lately that led to the following arrests: On Dec. 13, agents with the task force made contact with suspects who were...
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Vermilion Parish Police Jury to close landfill on Sundays as way to save money
As a way to save money, the Police Jury is closing the landfill on Sundays. Since the landfill has been open for 30-plus years, the landfill has been open seven days a week. Customers were able t...
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Lafayette man killed in hunting accident near Forked Island
A Lafayette man was killed in a hunting accident Saturday, near Forked Island. According to the Vermilion Parish Sheriff Department, 25 year old Ryan Allen Guidry died after being accidentally sho...
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Three killed in plane crash near Crowley; group was skydiving
ESTHERWOOD - Investigation continues into a Saturday afternoon plane crash that killed the pilot and two passengers from the Lafayette area. Two others were injured in the tragic end to a skydiving...
Dec 19, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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Abbeville City Council questioned about new pay raises and future revenue
After last Sunday’s Meridional article about the city’s need to raise revenue for next year, questions arose about whether the council knew the budget situation when council raises were voted on in...
Dec 18, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Liz Rugger of Maine spends her Sundays picking up trash after the campers have left.
Maine couple work-campers at Palmetto Island State Park
Meet the Ruggers. They are a retired couple from Maine who have been living and working at Palmetto Island State Park for the last two months. They are Palmetto Island’s first-ever work-campers. T...
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David Rugger is busy cleaning up the park.
Palmetto Island State Park thriving two months after it opens
Palmetto Island State Park has been open for almost two months, and according to Marcelle Guidry, who manages the park, things have been going well. “We are doing great,” said Guidry. “The cabins ...
Dec 18, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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The driver of the SUV (left) came to a stop after it ran into a truck driven by Reiss Hebert, a teen from VC.
Parents of teen who was involved in two-car accident upset with driver leaving scene
The parents of the teen who was involved in a two-car accident on Pumping Plant Road earlier this week were stunned to learn that someone else tried to pretend to be the person driving the vehicle...
Dec 16, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Demolitions crews pick up what is left of the old Kaplan Furniture Store after it was torn down last week to make way for expansion of Healthmart Pharmacy.
Making room for progress
Demolition work began last week to clear property on Cushing Avenue between Cajun Mufflers and Healthmart Pharmacy. Because of the close proximity to the pharmacy, it took workers with Trahan Con...
Dec 16, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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