Emma Nicole Stelly is all smiles after winning.
NEW ORLEANS - Twenty-four of Louisiana’s most poised and talented ladies representing various parishes competed for the coveted crown. Eager to represent the organization for the upcoming year, this year’s slate of contestants participated in multiple rounds of competition, which included both interviews and evening gown presentations.
Jamie and her husband Aaron won the Louisiana Young Farmer’s Award. In the photo with them is their one year old son, “A J.”
New Orleans—Aaron and Jamie Lee of Vermilion Parish have been named the 2024 Young Farmers and Ranchers Achievement Award Winners, the highest honor given by the Louisiana Farm Bureau to individual farmers each year.
The Lees won the award during the organization’s 102nd Annual Convention here at the Marriott on Canal St. last week during the Organizational Awards. The young couple are sixth-generation sugarcane, livestock, rice, and crawfish farmers who will now go on to compete for the national title in January 2025 at the American Farm Bureau convention in San Antonio, Texas.
Here is the Abbeville Police Arrest Report from 5/20/2024 to 6/25/2024
Eddie Langlinais was sworn in by Judge Jonathan Perry on Monday with his family by his side, including his mother, Virlie, who holds the Bible.
Judge Laurie Hulin swears in the new department heads for the Sheriff’s Office. They are (left to right) Blaire Doré (chief deputy), Glenn Landry patrol captain), Sammy LaPorte (warden of the parish jail), Mike Touchet (head of investigations) and Brooke Stelly, who is the captain of the civil division. Sheriff Eddie Langlinais holds the Bible.
The last time someone could say, “There is a new sheriff in Vermilion Parish,” was 20 years ago when Mike Couvillon took office — before Couvillon, another 20 years had passed since Ray Lemaire was sworn in.
For only the fourth time in 60 years, Vermilion Parish has a new sheriff: Eddie Langlinais from Delcambre.
On Monday, Langlinais was sworn in by Judge Jonathan Perry and Langlinais’s new department heads were sworn in by Judge Laurie Hulin.
Jackie and Douglas Vincent are the 2024 Grand Marshals of the Fourth of July parade on Thursday.
ERATH - Erath’s longtime residents, Jackie and Douglas Vincent, have been named the 2024 Grand Marshals of the 88th annual 4th of July Celebration.
They will reign over the grand parade that will roll through the streets of Erath on July 4th at 5 p.m.
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