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Those who volunteer as coaches in high school and middle school in Vermilion Parish may finally get compensated for all of the work they put in.
Paul Hebert, the assistant superintendent, was recently named the new athletic director of the parish after Mike Dartez retired from education.
One of Hebert’s changes as the new AD is to try and established a pay scale for volunteer coaches or school employees who are coaching but are not teachers.
A teacher is paid 2 to 3 percent of his or her salary to be a coach.

Vermilion Parish Mosquito Control will be applying mosquito adulticide by airplane from time to time, based on mosquito surveillance in various areas of Vermilion Parish.
Most applications will occur at, or immediately after sunset. Early morning applications are possible in the hours preceding dawn.
Aerial adulticiding is used in conjunction with integrated mosquito management to combat nuisance populations of mosquitoes, as wells as the diseases they vector to humans and animals.

On the night of Friday, August 18, 2017 the Abbeville Police Department will be conducting a Sobriety Checkpoint looking for impaired drivers and other traffic related offenses. The checkpoint will be conducted between the hours of 9:00 PM and 3:00 AM somewhere within the city limits of Abbeville.
This checkpoint is part of a year-long grant program provided through the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission, designed to improve driver safety and reduce impaired driving.