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The Daylily Festival and Garden Show will be held this Saturday in Abbeville.

Annual Daylily and Garden Show set for this Saturday in Abbeville

Fri, 06/02/2023 - 9:55am

Abbeville’s Daylily and Garden Show will visit us this Saturday.
Daylilies may be the most carefree of all flowering perennials. The plants grow quickly and are long lived. They thrive in almost any type of soil, will grow in sun or part shade, and are rarely troubled by insect pests or disease. Daylilies are known for their toughness, but their colorful and abundant flowers are also dazzling.

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After coming to a stop, three North Vermilion students were able to get out of the Jeep before it caught on fire. No one was seriously injured in the single-vehicle accident.

Three North Vermilion teens escape injury after Jeep accident

Fri, 06/02/2023 - 9:50am

Three North Vermilion High School teenagers are lucky to be alive after a Jeep they were traveling in went off the road, came to a stop, and then caught fire.
According to the driver’s parent, her son was traveling on Kurt Road, east of the Maurice City limits and was about to negotiate a curve. When on the curve, a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction looked to be in the lane of the Jeep.
The driver of the Jeep had to avoid the vehicle and, at the same time, hit a pothole, veered off the road, hit a ditch and came to a stop.

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Louisiana Sen. Bob Hensgens of Vermilion Parish speaks to graduates during LSU Eunice’s 2023 Spring Commencement.

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Allison Rosa Young earned the top nursing graduate honor out of 50 registered nursing graduates during LSUE’s Spring Commencement. She is a Vermilion Parish native.

LSU Eunice awards record number of degrees for ‘23 spring commencement

Thu, 06/01/2023 - 10:48am

EUNICE – Louisiana State University Eunice saw a record number of graduates celebrate this weekend during commencement exercises this weekend. LSUE held two separate ceremonies as the Academy students were honored on Friday followed by the rest of the graduating class on Saturday.
In total, LSU Eunice awarded 259 degrees during the weekend, a new record for the school.

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Touchet siblings learn about letter their dad wrote during World War II

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This is a copy of the letter than ran in the Meridional 78 years ago.

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This is the crew aboard the USS Banner, which was a troop and cargo transport boat.
Joseph Touchet (circled in red) was a member of the transport boat. Touchet was also a Higgins Boat pilot and was part of the invasion of Okinawa on April 1 of 1945.

78 years later: Touchet siblings learn about letter their dad wrote during World War II

Tue, 05/30/2023 - 2:46pm

A Vermilion Parish family was thrilled and saddened to read a letter their father wrote in 1945.
The siblings of the Touchet family from the Prairie Gregg area, located south of Erath, were recently given a copy of a letter that ran in the Abbeville Meridional on Saturday, April 14, 1945.
Their father, Joseph “Villy” Touchet, who was stationed on a Navy ship overseas during World War II, wrote the letter.

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