BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Health has confirmed 9 total storm-related deaths due to Hurricane Ida.
The storm-related deaths include:
3 individuals died of carbon monoxide poisoning in Jefferson Parish. No additional information about the victims is available at this time.
A 65-year-old female that drowned in floodwaters in Jefferson Parish.
North Vermilion freshman Aryelle Cormier practices on her new Chromebook before Wednesday.
All public school students in Vermilion Parish will return to school on Wednesday, except for students at one high school.
North Vermilion High School students will be learning, but it will not be in a classroom. They will be at home, sitting in front of their brand new Chromebook computer. Each parish high school student and middle school student was loaned a $250 Chromebook laptop to be used whenever there is no school. In addition, the school district purchased 11,000 Chromebooks.
At 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 30, Louisiana State Police Troop I was notified of a fatal crash involving a pedestrian on Louisiana Highway 339 near Louisiana Highway 338 in Vermilion Parish.
The crash claimed the life of 84-year-old Louis D. Baudoin of Abbeville.
Paul Barras
After 30 years of serving in the U.S. Army, Paul Barras of Abbeville has decided to retire and accept a civilian job at Tulane University Hospital and a teaching position at LSU Health Science Center in New Orleans.
His official retirement date was Aug. 1, 2021.
Barras, the son of Ray and Jane Barras of Abbeville, graduated from Abbeville in 1984 and then attended USL where he graduated in nursing in 1988.
Maurice City Hall
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.
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