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Planned water outage Saturday for part of Abbeville

Thu, 03/09/2023 - 10:36am

There will be a planned water outage in parts of Abbeville this Saturday, March 11.
Work will begin at 7 a.m.
The planned water outage is to allow city workers to replace fire hydrants.
Areas affected:
• Bound on the north by Palms Hospital Drive
• Bound on the south by West Summers Drive
• Bound on the east by Highway 167
• Bound on the west by Assay Street, Caroline Drive, Bruno Road.

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South Louisiana Community College students, including some from Vermilion Parish received scholarships for the spring semester.

More than $80,000 in Scholarships awarded to SLCC students for Spring Semester

Wed, 03/08/2023 - 10:38am

More than $86,000 in scholarships were awarded to students at South Louisiana Community College for the Spring 2023 semester. Through the generosity of companies and individuals in Acadiana, these students will have a portion or nearly all of their tuition paid.

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Could Abbeville shootings lead to state of emergency declaration?

Wed, 03/08/2023 - 9:53am

Last week a question was asked by Police Jury President Jason Picard that has probably never been asked. Can the parish president declare a state of emergency because of many shooting incidents in Abbeville?
The police jury is no stranger to approving a state emergency declaration before or after a hurricane.
But for shootings?
The police jury probably has never called for one due to gun violence.

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Two Vermilion Parish students in running for state Student of the Year

Tue, 03/07/2023 - 1:22pm

BATON ROUGE The Louisiana Department of Education named 24 students as finalists in the state’s annual Students of the Year competition and two are from Vermilion Parish.
The honorees include one 5th, 8th, and 12th grader from each of the state’s eight BESE regions.
The two from Vermilion are: Sydney Mouton is a fifth grade student at Rene Rost Middle School, and Braydin Clostio, who is a senior at North Vermilion High School.

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The deputy located guns, 50 grams marijuana and a scale after searching the suspect’s vehicle after a traffic stop.

Abbeville man arrested after deputy locates marijuana, guns in vehicle

Tue, 03/07/2023 - 11:02am

According to Vermilion Parish Sheriff Mike Couvillon, on March 1, the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office Criminal Interdiction unit arrested an Abbeville man.
While working Criminal Interdiction, a traffic stop was made on Ethan Baudoin (dob 2003) of Abbeville. Upon making the stop, the deputy encountered a strong order of suspected marijuana coming from Baudoin’s vehicle.
After speaking with Baudoin, the deputy asked if anything was illegal inside the vehicle and was told no. Permission to search the vehicle was granted to the deputy at this time.

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