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Charlotte C. Detraz

Charlotte Detraz seeks election to District E seat on Vermilion Parish School Board

I, Charlotte C. Detraz, seek the community’s support to elect me as District E School Board Member in the November 2018 election.
A life time resident of Vermilion Parish and over 51 years of serving the people of Vermilion Parish puts me in a direct position to serve the children and teachers in our public school system.
I hold a B.S. degree from ULL. I am a Nationally Accredited “Registered Health Information Administrator.” I offer years of administrative experience.

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Calvin “Woody” Woodruff

Vermilion Parish School Board members debate hiring new legal counsel

Despite the Vermilion Parish Principal’s Association voting 90 percent in support of hiring an in-house attorney to replace retiring in-house attorney Calvin “Woody” Woodruff, four school board members objected to what the principals and school superintendent Jerome Puyau wanted.
Thursday night was Woodruff’s final school board meeting as legal counsel for the school board. At the end of the month, he is retiring.

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Christine Payton (standing in middle), a Delcambre native, takes part in the world record bingo game.

World record effort: Marathon bingo game brings Alzheimer’s awareness

CROWLEY — It’s official. There is now a world record for the longest continuous Bingo game — and it belongs to Crowley.
While official confirmation from the Guinness Book of World Records® is still pending, Elder Outreach and Team Mergist, one of the top Alzheimer fundraising groups in Louisiana, confirmed that their application to the organization has been accepted.

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Vermilion Sheriff’s Office investigating shooting death of 24-year-old Abbevlle man

According to Vermilion Parish Sheriff Mike Couvillon at approximately 6:38 a.m. this morning deputies responded to a call of a black male subject lying on the shoulder of Lormand Road just south of Maurice.
Upon arrival, officers observed a deceased male subject with multiple gunshot wounds to the body.
The deceased victim has been identified as 24-year-old Stephain Brailey of Abbeville.
Sheriff Couvillon says that detectives are actively and aggressively investigating this homicide and are attempting to determine the motive into the shooting.

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