Maurice Board of Aldermen set to grow
MAURICE — It may be a tight squeeze, but Maurice will soon have to make room for two new members of the Board of Aldermen.
Coming as no surprise, the result of the 2020 U.S. Census confirmed that Maurice would officially become a town. According to the Census, released this month, Maurice has a population of 2,118. That puts Maurice well over the threshold to move from a village to a town.
“We had almost 120% increase,” Mayor Wayne Theriot said during the monthly Board of Aldermen meeting on Aug. 18. “For the 2010 Census, we were 964.