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KAPLAN — All employees of the City of Kaplan will see an increase in their paycheck beginning the first of May.
A special meeting was held recently to discuss the pay increase which had been tabled from the previous week’s regular city council meeting’s agenda.

Whose chicken is it anyway?
The City of Abbeville is trying to find the answer to that question for the many chickens that are free range in various parts of the city. The Council discussed the issue Tuesday during an ordinance committee meeting.
“We have a recurring problem,” City Attorney Ike Funderburk told the Council during the committee meeting. “No one wants to claim the chickens to be theirs. We don’t have video of them taking the eggs from the chickens, but we do have video of chickens running around neighborhoods.”

During the month of April, 2018 the following defendants were convicted or pled guilty to various charges and were sentenced in the 15th Judicial District Court, Parishes of Lafayette, Acadia and Vermilion:

VERMILION PARISH