Vermilion Today

According to the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s website, Blaine Turner was booked into the parish jail for allegedly getting his fourth or more DWI ticket.

Martial Broussard’s Motto is “A Bobcat now, a Bobcat then, a Bobcat FOREVER.”

Martial Broussard named Erath High’s 2019 Homecoming Grand Marshal

Erath High is proud to announce that Martial Broussard has been named the 2019 Erath High Homecoming Grand Marshal.

Erath man among three arrested for Internet Crimes Against Children

BATON ROUGE – Attorney General Jeff Landry’s Office has arrested three men on child exploitation charges.

(Photo by Wendy Frederick Romero)
Guests and friends were able to sign a book before they paid their respects to Erath Hall of Fame Jockey Randy Romero.

Remembering Randy Romero: Huge crowd pays final respect to Hall of Fame jockey

ERATH — Nathan Granger rose slowly out of his chair three rows from the stage and made his way to the podium Tuesday at the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church Religious Center.

Sports

Abbeville's Derrian Harrison dives to tackle a Rayne runner.

Rayne beats Abbeville

The Abbeville Wildcats could only score eight points in their 19-8 loss to the Rayne Wolves on Friday at home.

The Kaplan Pirates are now 2-0 on the season.

Friday Footballl Scores

Friday football scores

Turnovers hurt Gueydan in loss to Delcambre

DELCAMBRE – The turnover bug reared its ugly head and bit Gueydan’s Bears, seeking a 2-0 start under head coach Roderick Moy, Friday night in an away game against the Delcambre Panthers.

Kaplan's Hayes Abshire (7) avoids North Vermilion defenders. Abshire had a season high 157 yards against North Vermilion.

Kaplan runs over North Vermilion

KAPLAN – Two old district rivals met in an early season contest Friday as the North Vermilion Patriots traveled to Kaplan for an early season Vermilion Parish matchup.

VC's Alex Sanders makes a tackle early in the game.

Opelousas Catholic hands loss to VC

After getting a big win the week before against Catholic High of New Iberia, the Vermilion Catholic Eagles were handed a 33-21 loss to Opelousas Catholic on Friday.

Lifestyle

2019 Crown Bearer Ian Fernandez and 2019 Flower Girl Janie
Broussard.

Dozier selects crown bearer, flower girl

Dozier Elementary First graders Janie Broussard and Ian Fernandez were selected as the 2019 Flower Girl and Crown Bearer for Erath High’s 70th Homecoming Celebration on September 20, 2019.

Birth Announcements for Sept. 8

Henry Michael Gonsoulin

Pictured above are the 2018 LA Cattle Festival Royalty: Front Row (LtoR) Baby King Ja’khye Briggs, Petite Miss Addisyn Adams, Baby Queen Ava Alleman, Back Row (L to R) Deb Miss Danni Meche, Teen Miss Katelyn Bedwell, 69th Miss Cassie Kay Aloisio, Ms Brittney Roberts Lorio and Jr. Miss Marley Mitchell.

La Cattle Festival pageants scheduled, forms ready

The LA Cattle Festival is in search of young ladies of all ages and young men ages 0-4 to enter the pageants, to be held on September 7 and 8, 2019 at the Abbeville High Auditorium.