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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.

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.

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.