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MAURICE — On Sunday, January 27, Maurice Volunteer Fire Department honored their own Sammy Picard with a truck dedication. In late 2017, the department purchased a new truck; working number 622.
Among the many attendees, Maurice Mayor Wayne Theriot was the first to offer his kind words to ‘a good friend.’

On the evening of Friday, Jan. 25, at approximately 8:46 p.m., officers of the Abbeville Police Department responded to the area of Schlessenger Street and MLK on a Shots Fired call.
Upon arriving in the area, officers located a male subject laying on the roadway with a single gunshot wound to the lower back, who was transported to Abbeville General Hospital a short time later.
Detectives were contacted and upon arriving and investigating were able to obtain security video from a local business.

The School Board is looking for a way to reel in project graduations throughout the parish. Until it figures that out, the school board was expected to suspend next year’s project graduation at Thursday night’s school board meeting.
The original idea of project graduation was to have seniors, who had just graduated that night, meet at one location and spend one final night together.
However, over the last 20 years, project graduation has become more massive when it comes down to raising money for the eight-hour event.