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Vermilion Parish is due for an economic explosion, the likes of which it has never seen, if rumors of a space exploration company developing here come to fruition.
Brownsville, Texas, is a perfect example of what can happen locally, Sen. Bob Hensgens said this week.
“If anything happens down below the Intracoastal Waterway that happened in Brownsville,” Hensgens told members of the Vermilion Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, “this economy is about to take the biggest boom that it has ever taken.”

KAPLAN - During the city council meeting on Tuesday night, the Kaplan City Council conducted five condemnation hearings and decided to condemn two of those five houses. This means the homeowners have 30 days to tidy up their properties, or the city will bring in a contractor, and the costs will fall on the property owners.
The city council voted to condemn the property on North Herpin Street and West Veterans Memorial Drive.

MAURICE - Maurice Mayor Neil Arsement filed a public records request with the Vermilion Parish Police Jury, seeking information on the total revenue generated from a 4.87 millage that the residents of Maurice are currently paying.
Instead of receiving responses to the 11 questions he posed in an E-mail and a hand-delivered letter, he received a letter from police jury attorney Paul Moresi III stating that the millage proposition he inquired about does not exist.