Charles Dickens stated, that “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
As with schools around the district, Erath High, Erath Middle, Dozier Elementary, LeBlanc Elementary and Seventh Ward leaders, faculty members and students worked to lighten the burden and help Texas “Hurricane Harvey” victims.
The Louisiana Cattle Festival Association received an electricity bill from the City of Abbeville it did not expect.
The bill totaled $533.
The month before, that same bill was under $2.
Francis Plaisance, who is the president the Cattle Festival, did a little investigation of how the bill came about.
Plasiance said the bill was from a electrical panel box located on a pole at the Red Barn on Rodeo Road in Abbeville. The electrical panels are used only during the trail rides when campers hook up to them.
This sidewalk along Main Street will be fixed.
Taking a stroll around downtown Abbeville will soon become more pleasurable, and it’s no just because of more favorable weather.
The Abbeville City Council voted 5-0 during its regular meeting Tuesday evening to move forward with a sidewalk remediation project. The city will fund $75,000 of the work. The council also voted to sign an intergovernmental agreement with the Vermilion Parish Police Jury after Police Juror Wayne Touchet pledged to put $10,000 toward the project.
Kaplan Chief of Police Boyd Adams turned himself in at the Vermilion Parish Sheriff's office after warrants were issued for his arrest.
Kaplan Police Chief Boyd Adams turned himself in Monday morning to the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office after a warrant was issued for his arrest by the Louisiana State Police.
Adams was charged with malfeasance in office and felony theft.
These charges stem from a state audit which questioned whether Kaplan Police Chief Boyd Adams used nearly $7,650 in public funds to pay personal expenses, drawing some of that money from two police department bank accounts city officials say they did not know existed.
Vermilion Catholic senior Taylor Schaefer (holding sign) is joined (L-R) by VC Counselor Cheryl Landry, her father, Ryan Schaefer, stepmom, Kaima Schaefer, Kiwanis President
Andrew Dozier and Kiwanis member Ross Comeaux.
The Kiwanis Club of Abbeville selects one student each month to recognize for outstanding work being done inside and outside of school.
The club kicked off the new school year with a student who has put in plenty of work, to say the least.
The Kiwanis Club honored Vermilion Catholic senior Taylor Schaefer as the September Student of the Month Tuesday afternoon during its weekly meeting.
“I’m so excited to be here,” Schaefer told the Kiwanians. “It really is an honor.”
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