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Police Juror Paul Bourgeois speaks during a recent Maurice council meeting.
Maurice on board to support economic development
MAURICE — Police Juror Paul Bourgeois Jr. remains steadfast on his quest to implement economic development in Vermilion Parish. Bourgeois’ goal is to create an economic development department for t...
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Derrius Lewis
Out-of-state pharmacies help Vermilion Parish drug users
Prescription drugs continue to play a major role in illicit drug activity within Vermilion Parish today. One of the reasons for this is the ease in which suspected drug dealers can get their hand...
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Stir the Pot in need of cooking teams at Palmetto State Park
Stir the Pot: Louisiana Seafood Cook-off and Festival is back for a third year and accepting submissions for cook-off teams, sponsorships and volunteers for this year’s festival being held Saturday...
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Former Delcambre police officer denied new trial
Ernest Billiot was hoping Judge Ed Broussard would grant him a new trial on Friday. Judge Broussard denied his request, buying Billiot a sentencing delay. Billiot was expected to be sentenced by Ju...
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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...
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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 ...
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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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Abbeville priest speaks highly of departing Pope Benedict
Fr. William Blanda , the pastor at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville, praised Pope Benedict as the Pope departed. On Pope Benedict’s final day Thursday, Fr. Blanda had a busy day. He ...
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Albert Steen was big into the Shriners.
Family, friends remember Albert Steen as a hard working man
Someone broke the mold when they made Albert C. Steen, who many, including his wife, described as the hardest working man they have known. Steen, in his late 80s, passed away Wednesday at 2:30 a....
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Abbeville police arrest man on bike with stolen GPS device
Late Monday night, the Abbeville Police Department arrested Cuong Nguyen when they discovered he was hiding something allegedly stolen in his jacket. According to a press release issued by the Abb...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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