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District 49 will be voting for a new state representative for the October election in 2023.
This month, current District 49 representative Blake Miguez officially announced he will be running for Senate District 22 currently held by Sen. Fred Mills.
District 22 consists of Iberia, St. Martin and Lafayette parishes.
Mills can not seek reelection because of term limits.
Miguez, who is from Jeanerette, has been the state rep for two terms and still had another term left to serve. His final day as a state rep in District 49 will be Dec. 31, 2023.

ST. LANDRY PARISH — The 5.2 pounds of fentanyl seized in a drug bust in Sunset is enough to kill 1,250,000 people, according to St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz.
The fentanyl was discovered in the arrest of Benjamin I. Pittman, 43, of the 200 block of Rue Destin, Sunset, on March 23.
“This is, by far, the most significant and largest fentanyl confiscation and also the most elaborate pill manufacturing operation in the history of St. Landry Parish,” Guidroz stated in a news release on Monday.

Dr. Malcolm Vidrine made the case for “rewilding” thousands of acres in Acadiana as part of slowing or stopping climate change
“It turns out our prairies are the most efficient and effective habitats to help fight climate change and to slow the current extinction events where life on earth is literally dying out,” he said to Eunice Rotarians on Wednesday.
There are about 3,000 acres of prairie remaining and much of it is degraded, he said. And, much of the prairie is near the coast, which is threatened by the rising sea.