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LeBeouf decides not to run for third school board term

Tue, 07/26/2022 - 1:57pm

Due to health reasons, Laura LeBeouf decided it was time to leave the Vermilion Parish School Board after serving for eight years.
LeBeouf, in a surprise move, decided not to qualify for her third and final four-year term as District C’s school board member.
Gregg Meaux qualified last week and is the only candidate for District C. He will be sworn into office in January of 2023.
LeBeouf, a former educator for 30-plus years in Vermilion Parish, explained why she did not seek a third term.

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Photos by Chris Landry / The Abbeville Meridional
Liz Touchet is sworn in by Vermilion Parish Police Jury legal counsel Paul Moresi III as the District 5 representative on Wednesday.

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Liz Touchet, center, is joined by, from left, Victoria Richard, Carrie Durke, Becky Sonnier and Renee Touchet on Wednesday. Richard is the daughter of Liz and Wayne Touchet, and Durke, Sonnier and Touchet are the daughters of Wayne Touchet, the former District 5 Vermilion Parish Police Juror. Liz Touchet was sworn in on Wednesday to serve the remainder of Wayne Touchet’s term on the police jury.

Touchet sworn in as first female Police Juror in Vermilion Parish

Fri, 07/22/2022 - 8:50am

It was an emotional start to the Vermilion Parish Police Jury meeting Wednesday night as Liz Touchet was officially sworn in as the first female police juror.
Touchet will serve out the remaining 17 months of her late husband’s term. Wayne Touchet served 18 years as the District 5 representative before his death on June 15.
As she was sworn in, fighting back tears at one point, sniffles could be heard from family members in attendance for the ceremony, including their daughter Victoria Richard and Wayne’s daughters Carrie Durke, Becky Sonnier and Renee Touchet.

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A total of six pounds of marijuana was allegedly found on a New Iberia man’s possession.

Task Force locates six pounds of marijuana, makes arrest in Vermilion Parish

Tue, 07/19/2022 - 8:59am

The Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Narcotics Task Force seized six pounds of marijuana worth a street value of $6,000.
They also arrested a New Iberia man.
According to Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Eddie Langlinais, the Vermilion Municipal and Sheriff’s Narcotics Task Force made the following arrests for narcotics related offenses within the parish.
Within the past month, agents were able to identify a suspected narcotics trafficker bringing large amounts of illegal narcotics into Vermilion Parish.

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