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Residents on islands in Abbeville don’t want to be incorporated

The City of Abbeville is trying to incorporate four areas into the city and residents who live in those areas are not in favor of it.
Recently, the City of Abbeville approved creating a bill for the legislature in Baton Rouge to approve, and hopefully, the governor to sign. That bill is House Bill 334, and was submitted by Rep. Ryan Bourriaque.
These areas are called “Islands,” and there are four in the city. Two are near Terri’s Diesel, near Southern Oaks Country Club. Another one is next to RiverFront Restaurant, while the fourth one is on the south side of Abbeville.

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Photo by Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter
Student Hunter Lepretre of Gueydan, third from right, has been chosen for a research internship at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station. The paid internship was established by the Charles and Rose Broussard family. Shown with him are Alan Broussard, far right; Yvonne Broussard Simon, second from right; Richard Broussard, third from left; Hal Broussard, second from left and Kurt Guidry, director of the LSU AgCenter’s Southwest Region.

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Photo by Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter
Hunter Lepretre of Gueydan, the first student chosen for an LSU AgCenter internship with an endowment established by the Charles and Rose
Broussard Family.

Gueydan’s Hunter Lepretre, selected for Broussard research internship

LAFAYETTE — Hunter Lepretre, a junior at McNeese State University, has been chosen as the first student selected for a research internship with the LSU AgCenter through an endowment established by the family of Charles and Rose Broussard.
Lepretre will begin the paid internship in May at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, working in the agronomy research project under Dustin Harrell, LSU AgCenter agronomist and resident coordinator of the Rice Research Station.

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Latrell D. Ashley

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Dequan T. Turner

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Kenan M. Willis

Three suspects arrested in Vermilion Parish for armed robbery

According to Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office PIO Eddie Langlinais, the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a complaint of an Armed Robbery which occurred on the night of April 16, 2021.
The Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office’s Criminal Investigation Division developed information to secure felony warrants for Kenan Michael Willis, 18, Dequan Trevelle Turner, 18, and Latrell Dion Ashley, 18, all from Abbeville, LA.

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Jordan Tyler Matthews

Abbeville Police makes arrest in connection to April 9 shooting death

On April 9, at approximately 9:30 a.m., officers of the Abbeville Police Department responded to a “Shots Fired” complaint on the 900 block of E. Lafayette Street.
Upon officers arriving on scene, the observed a male victim who suffered at least one apparent gunshot wound. The victim, identified as 25-year-old James Joseph, Jr., of Abbeville, died as a result of the shooting.

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Gueydan, LA 70542