Vermilion Parish – On January 5, 2023, shortly before 1:30 a.m., Louisiana State Police Troop I was notified of a two-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 167 near Lawrence Road in Vermilion Parish. The crash claimed the life of 36-year-old Jasper Morrison Foster of Maurice and 22-year-old Matthew Wayne Landry of Lafayette.
Avery Claire Hebert takes a photo with the decorated Louisiana float that took part in the Rose Bowl Parade on Monday in California.
Avery Claire Hebert takes a photo of the undecorated Rose Bowl float from Louisiana. Hebert and other Louisiana queens helped decorate the float.
Avery Claire Hebert has ridden or attended many parades over the last 21 years. But on Monday, Hebert road in a unique parade.
Hebert, a 2019 Vermilion Catholic graduate, is the Louisiana Queen LXXIX of the Sugar Cane Festival in Iberia Parish.
Last month she and 14 other Louisiana festival queens received a phone call from Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser inviting them to ride in the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena, California.
She and the other queens helped decorate the float.
Chas Milliman (right) took a Christmas photo with his siblings. Jed is on the left and Joni is in the middle.
Twenty-eight years ago, Erath High 17-year-old senior Chas Milliman collapsed while jogging in front of Erath Middle School on Dec. 30, 1994.
The Milliman family is still having a hard time today dealing with his death. Every Christmas is a tough time for his mom Loretta, Chas’s younger brother Jed and sister Joni Milliman Hebert.
There are still tears shed each time the Christmas tree is put up. For years after his death, Loretta did not put up a Christmas tree because it reminded her of Chas and how he loved to hang ornaments.
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ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions Ventures Manager Joe Colletti points to information on a slide during a presentation to the Vermilion Parish Police Jury that he gave Wednesday concerning the planned Carbon Capture and Storage injection wells on 125,000 acres of property the company owns in Vermilion Parish.
The Vermilion Parish Police Jury would like to see its coastal restoration efforts boosted by a partnership with ExxonMobil as part of the international oil and gas company’s plans to store captured carbon emissions underground in 125,000 acres of property that ExxonMobil owns in the parish, District 6 police juror Mark Poche said Wednesday after the police jury’s regular monthly meeting.
Selecting Students of the Year in Vermilion Parish is no easy task.
Not when there are so many outstanding students from whom to choose.
However, throughout the selection process, three students did stand out.
The Vermilion Parish School System announced that Rene Rost’s Sydnee Mouton is the 5th-Grade Student of the Year, Forked Island E. Broussard’s Lexi Greene is the 8th-Grade Student of the Year and North Vermilion High’s Braydin Clostio is the 12th-Grade Student of the Year.
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