According to Vermilion Parish Sheriff Eddie Langlinais, at approximately 2:45 p.m. on Sept. 29, a Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office Task Force agent initiated a traffic stop on a white Chevrolet pickup truck on Old Kaplan Highway.
The vehicle was registered to a known and wanted felony narcotics suspect.
Superintendent Tommy Byler speaks to Abbeville Kiwanis Club this past week.
On Nov. 15, voters will decide a millage renewal for the Vermilion Parish School System.
The 10-year renewal, initially approved by voters in 1996, is for a 10-mill property tax. The funds generated from the 10 mills support transportation, instructional programs, and a roofing and AC maintenance initiative.
Five year old Clay Hebert
LAKE CHARLES -A Vermilion Parish child died from injuries because of a head-on collision that happened earlier this month in Lake Charles, police confirm.
Around 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 5, Dominique Hilliard was driving a 2016 Dodge Challenger near Southpark Drive when he crossed the center line and crashed into another vehicle, Lake Charles police said.
Hilliard was taken to the hospital, where he later died. Police said the other driver is stable and expected to survive, while a child, 5-year-old Clay Allen Hebert was airlifted to Baton Rouge with serious injuries.
The Policy Jury room was filled with members of the non-profit organizations that use the cultural center.
The outside of the cultural center.
There are empty rooms being used for storage on the second floor.
Another empty room being used for storage.
This is a meeting room used by different organizations.
This large room sits empty except for the boxes.
The bottom floor of the cultural center is used.
This is Tourism Director Alison Miller's office on the second floor.
These are two old chairs from the Frank's Theater that are being stored on the second floor.
More boxes and posters are also being stored from the Frank's Theater.
Is it possible that the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Detective Unit will relocate to the cultural and historical center in the old library in downtown Abbeville? Not if a group of concerned Vermilion Parish residents has anything to say about it.
For the past few years, tenants in the former Hibernia Bank building on Charity Street have housed the Sheriff’s detective unit, located on the second and third floors of the old bank building.
The Vermilion Parish School Board is anticipated to vote Thursday on the proposed increase in health insurance premiums.
On Monday, at an insurance committee meeting, insurance committee members, and school board members listened to HUB International’s Louanna Landry give an hour-long presentation about the future cost of health insurance.
The simple message she gave was that the school board needs to increase the premiums from insurance holders, along with the school board kicking in an extra $300,000 a year.
318 N. Main St.
Abbeville, LA 70510
Phone: 337-893-4223
Fax: 337-898-9022
219 North Cushing Avenue
Kaplan, LA 70548