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The City of Abbeville is working on a road improvement plan for downtown and beyond.
The city is working with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) on a plan to prioritize road repairs and also transfer the authority over some streets back into the hands of local government.

Tommy Byler will continue to be the superintendent of Vermilion Parish public schools for another four years.
The Vermilion Parish School Board approved a four-year contract, and Byler signed it on Friday.
Byler has been the superintendent for the last three years. His first contract was a three-year deal that paid him $141,000 yearly.
His new contract gives him a 2.5 percent pay raise. In other words, he will now be paid $145,300 a year or a $3,525 pay increase.

On Sunday, the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office was notified of an armed robbery that had occurred at the Dollar General Store located on US-167.
Investigators with the Criminal Investigations Division were called out to the scene to assist the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division.
It was learned that the pictured individual entered the store just before closing and cased the inside before he threatened the associates that were working with a firearm. The suspect then robbed the register of an unknown amount of cash before departing.