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Jim Meaux, owner of Jim s Tree Service. Couvillon's Career: Jim's Tree Service
KAPLAN – Trees are as much of a part of Vermilion Parish’s landscape as canals, pastures and crawfish ponds. Live Oaks shade us, Crepe Myrtles provide colorful scenery, and Cypress and Pin...
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Holly and Carrick Boffy (left) hand Robert F. Stephens of the Alzheimer’s Association (right) a check for $28,000. The money donated was raised at the Second Annual Fishing For Memories Tournament. Behind Stephens is Joey Russo of IBC Group, who is the champion sponsor of the fishing rodeo. In the back are board members of the Harbor and Terminal Board, where the check was presented. Fishing For Memories earns lots of money for Alzheimer's Association
Despite the oil spill in the Gulf, tropical storms, and the summer’s worst heat wave, the second annual Fishing for Memories for a hit. A benefit rodeo for the Alzheimer’s Association was held Jul...
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Abbeville voters may or may not be able to vote on a flood protection tax in the near future. Police Jury may sue City of Abbeville
The Police Jury may file a lawsuit against the City of Abbeville and let a judge decide if the Police Jury has the right to call a parish-wide property tax election for flood protection even thou...
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Jane Derouen Derouen: Class Act Student of the Week
This week’s Vermilion Parish’s Class Act Student of the week is VC senior Jeane Derouen. Her parents are Harvey and Antoinette Derouen. What has been the most memorable thing, thus far, that has h...
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Colby Comeaux Task Force cracks down on cocaine
Agents with the Vermilion / Municipal Narcotics Task force along with Abbeville Narcotics agents ended up in a short chase earlier this week after receiving information about possible illicit narc...
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Martial d’ Augereau moves the cage that the four foot gator is trapped in. Alligator found in chicken yard near Meaux
MEAUX – Martial d’ Augereau thought he had seen every wild animal possible living in the Meaux area for the last 15 years. There have been foxes, birds, a bobcat, possums , and snakes to ...
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Luis Cedillo (left) , a worker at Vermilion Gator Farm, handles the mouth of a 10 foot alligator on Wednesday. Gator hunters deal with low prices on opening day
Pecan Island’s Robert Guidry has been hunting alligators for more than 40 years, and in that time, he has seen the price climb to $40 a foot and then fall to about $15 a foot. Despite what the pri...
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A correction:
An article ran in Sunday’s edition of the Meridional about the city council incorporating a new neighborhood into city limits. A clarification would like to be made about a paragraph written. It r...
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Abbeville Police Chief Tony Hardy will have his patrolmen at a checkpoint on the bypass Saturday searching for DWI drivers. Abbeville Police to have sobriety checkpoint on Saturday
On Sept. 4, the Abbeville Police Department will be conducting a Sobriety Checkpoint in Abbeville. The check point will be conducted between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. on the La. 14 Bypass. The checkpoint...
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VPSO assists KPD officers in re-certification
A collaboration effort between the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Kaplan Police Department resulted in better trained officers for the city of Kaplan. “Sheriff Couvillon has certified i...
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Abbeville police arrest fugitive from Los Angeles
Sunday at 8:30 a.m. the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force from Lafayette and Lake Charles along with vital assistance from the Abbeville Police Department arrested 38-year old Kent Jamel Wright duri...
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61 year old dies in Iberia Parish
The Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a person found dead in a drainage canal on Hwy 89 in Iberia Parish at 7 pm Sunday night. The victim has been identified as 61 year old, Gordon...
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