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Abbeville High mourns loss of another teacher with passing of Coach Davis

Tue, 06/06/2017 - 8:49am

The school year did not begin well for Abbeville High School nor did it end well.
At the end of August, when school was beginning, AHS teacher/head football coach Gary Adkins lost his short battle with cancer.
He had been at the school just under a year.
The faculty and students had to deal with that tragedy.
Then, right before the school year ended, Abbeville High lost another teacher/coach unexpectedly.
Abbeville High girls basketball coach /boys track coach Jeff Davis died due to a brain aneurism Davis passed away in a Lafayette hospital.

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Abbeville DWI checkpoint results in four arrests

Tue, 06/06/2017 - 8:38am

The Abbeville Police conducted a DWI Checkpoint on LA Hwy 14 Bypass between the hours of 9 p.m. and 3 a.m, which resulted in four arrests.
During the checkpoint, 508 vehicles were screened, with 9 drivers given a Standardized Field Sobriety Test. Of the 9 drivers, one was arrested for DWI.
APD officers also wrote 15 additional citations for various traffic violations.
Three subjects were arrested and booked on narcotics related offenses and one subject was arrested for Obstruction of a Passageway and Resisting an Officer.

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Abbeville’s June 6 Council meeting is canceled

Fri, 06/02/2017 - 11:31am

The regular Abbeville City Council meeting scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on June 6, 2017 has been canceled.
A Special City Council meeting will be held on June 13, 2017.

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NOAA: Hurricane season to be ‘above normal’

Fri, 06/02/2017 - 10:53am

Forecasters at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center say the Atlantic could see another above-normal hurricane season this year.
Last year produced 5 land-falling storms, including Matthew that caused $10 billion in damage and killed 34 people in the U.S. and 551 in the Caribbean. It was one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record.

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Saturday’s Daylily Festival and Garden Show will be moved from Magdalen Square to Rec building at A.A. Comeaux Park in Abbeville.

Abbeville's Daylily Festival moving indoors

Thu, 06/01/2017 - 4:22pm

For the first time in its 15-year existence, the Daylily Festival and Garden Show will be moving from its home in downtown Abbeville.
The event, which begins tomorrow at 8:30 a.m., is being moved to the Rec building in A.A. Comeaux Park. It has taken place in Magdalen Square in each of its previous years.
Organizers announced the decision to move the festival Thursday morning, citing a forecast that calls for rain today and Saturday. Vendors generally use most of Friday to set up.

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Abbeville High mourns loss of another teacher with passing of Coach Davis

Abbeville DWI checkpoint results in four arrests

Abbeville’s June 6 Council meeting is canceled

NOAA: Hurricane season to be ‘above normal’

Abbeville's Daylily Festival moving indoors

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