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UPDATE: Sheriff's Office adds more charges

Trenten Perry is facing more charges after he allegedly stole a van with a baby in the backseat.
Perry is accused of stealing a van parked at Maltrait Memorial School in Kaplan. The mother had left the van running and unlocked while she went inside to get another child, leaving her baby in a car seat in the back.

Downtown Abbeville is full of history.
One piece of the city’s past is currently receiving a facelift.
Owner Rob Roy is currently having work done to the facade of Abbeville Electric Supply, located at 320 S. State St. The building dates back to 1948, when Salvatore Joseph Campisi opened the Ritz Theatre. With that in mind, Roy doesn’t view the project as a renovation.
“It’s a restoration,” he said.

Charles Guidry has enjoyed an incredible career as a sugarcane farmer.
Along with his wife of 41 years, Wanda, he credits that to two things: receiving an education and eventually having the ability to be his own boss.
Guidry, who operates Charles Guidry Farm, recently spoke to members of the Rotary Club of Abbeville. Guidry, one of nine children in his family, told club members about the advice his father gave him that set him on his path.
“My dad told me that once you get an education,” Guidry said, “you can do just about anything that you want to do. I did that.”