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The Landry family celebrate the win on Saturday. In the photo are Jacob Landry, his wife Hannah, daughter Jules Catherine and son Jack Landry.

Jacob Landry makes history by winning District 49 race

Mon, 10/16/2023 - 3:44pm

History was made Saturday night in Erath.
Jacob Landry, a 44-year-old Erath native, became the first Vermilion Parish native to win the District 49 State Representative race.
Since the district’s conception, the district has included a majority of Iberia Parish residents and the east side of Vermilion Parish.
With the new 2020 census, District 49 was redrawn, and the new district lines consist of 30 percent of Iberia Parish, 30 percent of Vermilion Parish and 40 percent of Lafayette Parish.

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At 11:45 p.m. on Saturday, Vermilion Parish was highlighted in blue, showing it was the only that was not finished posting election results.

Computer glitch causes delay in posting the Vermilion Parish election results

Mon, 10/16/2023 - 3:40pm

On a typical election night, everyone at the Vermilion Parish Clerk of Court’s Office is finished sending the election results to the Secretary of State’s Office by 9:30 p.m. But that was not the case this past Saturday.
Vermilion Parish was the last parish in the state to finish submitting the election results. It was just after midnight on Sunday by the time everyone finished.

So, what happened?

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Diane Meaux Broussard will remain as clerk of court.

Vermilion Parish Clerk of Court's Office had to input election results by hand

Sun, 10/15/2023 - 12:18am

It took a while, but the final election results in Vermilion Parish were completed at around midnight.
Vermilion Parish was the final parish in the state to get complete results.
Clerk of Court Diane Meaux Broussard explained why the hold up. She said her office had to type in the results manually.

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Gordon (4) and Darrell Davis III tackle West St. Mary’s J’kaylon Carter (11) on Thursday night at WSM.

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Abbeville quarterback Tahj Judge (1) dives into the end zone for a touchdown against West St. Mary on Thursday. He ran 11 yards for the score.

Abbeville crushes West St. Mary, 41-0

Fri, 09/29/2023 - 9:26am

BALDWIN - Abbeville senior inside linebacker Zaylun Williams admitted that he and the rest of the Wildcats were looking ahead to next week in preparing for Thursday night’s road trip to winless West St. Mary.
But in the end, it didn’t matter as Abbeville’s defense pitched a shutout, and the offense came around in the second half as the Wildcats won their fourth straight game of the season in a 41-0 rout of the Wolfpack as the team looks towards Friday’s road game at St. Charles Catholic.