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By ordinance, a 3% increase for customers of the city of Abbeville’s water system goes into effect each Jan. 1.
After issues with the recent hard freeze, city officials have moved that increase to March 1.
“Automatically, we have an increase on Jan. 1,” Mayor Roslyn White said during Tuesday’s regular city council meeting. “We should postpone it, just to not have it applicable to those people who had frozen pipes in December.”

Since taking office as Abbeville chief of police last summer, Mike Hardy has worked every avenue to recruit new officers.
With the approval of the new budget, city officials have given Hardy a big recruiting pitch of $40,000 starting salary for officers.
During its final meeting of 2022, the Abbeville City Council approved the operating budget for the new year. The city’s fiscal year runs from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31. Included in the budget is a $13,000 across-the-board raise for members of the police department.

Vermilion Parish – On January 5, 2023, shortly before 1:30 a.m., Louisiana State Police Troop I was notified of a two-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 167 near Lawrence Road in Vermilion Parish. The crash claimed the life of 36-year-old Jasper Morrison Foster of Maurice and 22-year-old Matthew Wayne Landry of Lafayette.