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Ray Clark, a city worker, was busy stacking sand bags in Abbeville’s city barn.

Sand bags available in Vermilion Parish

Wed, 06/21/2017 - 8:06am

Sand bags are available throughout Vermilion Parish in preparation for the tropical storm.
The Vermilion Parish Police Jury has sand and bags available at the following locations:
• Public Works Barn located at 2211 Leonie St. in Abbeville
• Area 1 Barn, 13115 Mack Switch Road in Erath
• Area 2 Barn, 12002 Calvin Lebeouf Road in Abbeville
• Area 3 Barn, 29429 Veterans Memorial Dr. in Gueydan
• Area 4 Barn, 13531 Gladu Rd. in Kaplan
You must bring your own shovel.
The City of Abbeville has sandbags available

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Contractors make sure the gate closes behind Erath Middle School. Superintendent Jerome Puyau checks over the doors Monday morning.

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This is a generator that sits on top of a diesel storage tank. On the side of the generator are pumps that will pump water away from Erath High and Erath Middle School.

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Once there was a softball/football practice field behind the Erath High gym. Today, the land is now a large retention pond.

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There are drainages scattered on the grounds of Erath High and Erath Middle School. The water flows into the drainage pipe and then the water is pumped out into a bayou.

Vermilion Parish School employees begin closing flood protection wall gates

Tue, 06/20/2017 - 9:01am

The Vermilion Parish school system is not taking chances when it comes to preparing for high waters in Vermilion Parish.
There are five schools with a flood protection wall around each school.
On Monday, the school system emergency plan kicked into effect and personnel were busying closing flood gates at each school.

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Mortimer Cottrell Jr.

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Josiah Cottrell

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Timothy Cottrell

Three wanted for shooting in Abbeville arrested in Alabama

Wed, 06/14/2017 - 4:18pm

Three men wanted by Abbeville Police in connection to a shooting that occurred in April are now in custody.
Mortimer Cottrell Jr., 27, Josiah Cottrell, 20, and Timothy Cottrell, 17, have each been booked into the Vermilion Parish Correctional Center on attempted second-degree murder chargers. The bond for those charges has been set at $500,000 for each man.
U.S. Marshall’s and deputies with the Mobile Sheriff’s Office arrested the three without incident in Mobile, Ala.

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