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10 from Vermilion get degrees at LSU
BATON ROUGE – LSU’s 276th commencement exercises on Friday, Dec. 16, featured 86 students who graduated with academic honors. Students with grade-point averages between 3.90 and 4.0 gr...
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ULL Graduates from Vermilion Parish
LAFAYETTE – Three students from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette were honored as Top Graduates during Fall commencement exercises on Saturday. They include: • Jacy Morgan Ashby, wife of Sco...
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Abbeville Mayor says teamwork important part of budget
A municipality attempting to balance a budget can be on par with someone trying balance on a tightrope, as to say it is not a task without certain difficulties. “It gets complicated,” Abbeville Ma...
Dec 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Erath Middle School student Class Act Student of the Week
Student Name: Aidyn Creson School: Erath Middle School Age: 13 Grade: Eighth I hate it when: People interrupt me A food I won’t touch: Peas! I listen to what on the radio? Rock My fr...
Dec 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Vermilion Parish Police Jury wants to evict probation and parole office from old Hibernia bank
The Vermilion Parish Police Jury is expected to vote Monday night to evict the state’s Pardon and Parole Office from the old Hibernia Bank in Abbeville. The jurors, in a committee on Wednesday, vot...
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Boustany Fights to Ensure Southwest Louisiana Coastal Study Remains Top Priority
(Washington, DC) - Congressman Charles W. Boustany, Jr., M.D., (R-South Louisiana) released the following statement after speaking with Major General Merdith “Bo” Temple, Chief of Engineers and Ac...
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The speeding car swerved to the left on Massena Street, because there was a parked police car on the right.
Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office searching for people in speeding car
The Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office is working hard to find out who were in the maroon Monte Carlo when it was shot five times by an Abbeville Police Department officer. The incident took place...
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Pictured decorating for the play are Emily Husband, Dillon Constantine, Ashlyn Trahan, and Rilee Trahan.
Vermilion Catholic Drama Club set to perform 'Grinch' next week
The Vermilion Catholic Drama Club, under the direction of Mr. Casey Hutchens, has been preparing for their upcoming Christmas play, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” Tickets are available in the VC...
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Meridional in search of Alabama graduate or fan
The Abbeville Meridional is in search of any University of Alabama football fans or alumni who will be pulling for them in the National Championship football game next month. If you are pulling for...
Dec 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Patricia Heard straightens out an ornament on her upside down tree.
Gueydan family enjoys upside down Christmas tree in their home
A hanging upside down Christmas tree. Who has ever heard of anything so ridiculous? But they do exist and one can be found in a home near Gueydan. For the last five years, Patricia and Tim Heard ...
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Sting leads to arrest for Vermilion/Municipal Task Force
On Dec. 12, the Vermilion/Municipal Narcotics Task Force conducted a drug sting that lead to the arrest of one person, along with illicit narcotics and weapons. On the evening of the 12th an underc...
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A total of eight students will be honored as the UL Lafayette Alumni Association’s Outstanding Graduates from their respective academic colleges. From left: Matthew Roy, Kristin Colvin, Ashley Brignac (back row), Elizabeth Satterly, Christian De Prins (back row), Donna Guidry and Jean-Luc Hebert. Not shown is Christopher Roby.
Hebert earns Outstanding UL grad honor
If Jean-Luc Hebert walked on the campus of University of Louisiana at Lafayette on his first day of school with a list of goals, being named an outstanding graduate was not necessarily on the list....
Dec 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Scotty Broussard
Erath man charged with allegedly raping his girlfriend
ERATH - The Erath Police Department arrested and charged Erath resident Scotty Broussard, 49, with simple rape Saturday afternoon, not long after he was released from the parish jail on a different...
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Abbeville residents continue to fall for check scam
Abbeville residents continue to fall scam victims to fake checks and David Hardy of the Abbeville Police Department wants to remind people, “If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.” The po...
Jul 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marcus Rice
Rice turns himself in to Abbeville police
On the morning of Sunday, July 10, Marcus Rice turned himself in to the Abbeville Police Department in connection of shooting that took place last Friday. Marcus Rice was booked on the charges of 2...
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Sheriff Mike Couvillon has been busy looking over the budget for the upcoming year. His office looks like a wild-game museum with mounted animals he has killed over the last eight years, including the bison (middle).
Sheriff Couvillon operates conservative department resulting in positive budget
Throughout Louisiana, governmental offices and municipalities are having to cut spending and slash workers due to a decrease in sales tax collection, but that is not the case for the Vermilion Pari...
Jul 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lawrence Malbreaux
Vermilion Parish agents locate meth lab, arrest five
Vermilion Parish and State Police Law Enforcement agents found a meth lab, north of Abbeville. Thursday at around 5:30 p.m., the Vermilion Parish Municipal Narcotics Task Force along with the Louis...
Jul 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Edwins Edwards
Edwin Edwards speaks about his new freedom
CROWLEY - Gov. Edwin Edwards’ house arrest ended Wednesday and the four term former governor shows no signs of slowing down. With a possible reality show in the works, a Facebook page that filled t...
Jul 07, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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The life cycle of the mosquito.
More rain means more mosquitoes in Vermilion Parish
There is good news and bad news when it comes to the recent rain Vermilion Parish has received in the last two weeks. The good news is vegetation, especially crops, is happy because of the wet stuf...
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Lasharna Turner examines the damage caused by a fire to her Guegnon Street home. The fire took place early Sunday morning.
Mother of six children loses everything in house fire in Abbeville
It is a tragedy few can imagine, but it is one from which Lasharna Turner is now trying to put together the pieces. Early Sunday morning, the house on Guegnon Street that Turner her six children c...
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Casey Anthony
Casey Anthony found not guilty of murdering her daughter
A Florida jury has acquitted Casey Anthony of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. Anthony began crying when the jury's verdict was read Tuesday after more than 10 hours of deliberations. She...
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Gov. Bobby Jindal
Gov. Jindal vetoes parish's own levee board bill
BATON ROUGE (CNS)—Gov. Bobby Jindal has vetoed HB-334 by Rep. Simone Champagne (R-Jeanerette) that would have removed Vermilion Parish from the Chenier Plain Coastal Restoration and Protection...
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The recreation tax has provided $272,000 to youth organizations in the parish over the last six years.
Fate of recreation tax in hands of local government
Municipalities and the Police Jury in the parish now control the fate of the controversial hotel/motel occupancy tax (recreation tax) that became law in 2005. The original bill, authored by Rep. M...
Jul 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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The new lights are part of a DOTD project.
Maurice gets new traffic lights
MAURICE — Anyone passing through Maurice on Highway 167 will notice some changes in the Village of Maurice. Among those differences are new structures for the traffic lights, one located on Highway...
Jul 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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