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Chris Landry / The Abbeville Meridional
Twin Parish Port Commission Director Wendell Verret (center) introduces Dwight’s Restaurant owner Dwight Breaux (right) and general manager Brandy Mitchell (left) to the Delcambre Board of Aldermen on Monday. Breaux and his daughter, Mitchell, are planning to build a Dwight’s on the Bayou restaurant at Bayou Carlin Cove, and plan to have a music stage as well as volleyball and cornhole tournaments at the site, as well as fishing tournaments based there.

New restaurant planned at Bayou Carlin Cove

DELCAMBRE — A proposal to bring a Dwight’s on the Bayou restaurant to Bayou Carlin Cove is an exciting prospect for the town of Delcambre, Mayor Pam Blakely said at Monday’s meeting of the Board of Aldermen, but the board opted to table the annexation of Bayou Carlin Cove until next month’s board meeting while costs and lease issues are looked into.
“We’re ready to move forward,” Blakely said. “We’re excited. We want this.”
“We are, too,” said Brandy Mitchell, general manager of Dwight’s Restaurant located on Johnston Street in Lafayette.

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Alison Miller

Vermilion Parish tourism figures are on the rise

Each year, the Vermilion Parish Tourist Commission (VPTC) compiles tourism figures and compares these numbers to previous years to measure how tourism is doing in the parish. After being down for a couple of years, tourism is beginning to pick up in the parish. Although not yet back to pre-COVID visitation, the Tourist Commission is noticing more people coming into the Center on a daily basis, including a few international visitors.

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UL Lafayette)
UL Lafayette will award 1,753 degrees during individual Commencement ceremonies.

Vermilion Parish natives among 1,753 to receive degrees during UL Lafayette’s 2022 Spring Commencement

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is celebrating its Spring 2022 graduates during Commencement ceremonies on Friday and Saturday.
The University conferred 1,387 bachelor’s degrees, 328 master’s degrees, 36 doctoral degrees and two certificates. Graduates are from 55 Louisiana parishes, 36 states and U.S. territories, and 33 foreign countries.

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Ten North Vermilion High School seniors who were awarded $1,000 scholarships by the Ramsie Kate Baumgardner Memorial Fund pose with members of the Baumgardner/Vincent family during Senior Day awards at NV on Monday.

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Ramsie Kate Baumgardner

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Family members of Ramsie Baumgardner were present at North Vermilion on Monday morning.

Ramsie Kate Baumgardner Memorial Fund awards scholarships to 10 North Vermilion seniors

To learn more or to donate to the Ramsie Kate Baumgardner Memorial Fund, or for a link to Louisiana organ donation websites, go to rkbmemorialfund.com.

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(Chris Landry / The Abbeville Meridional)
District Attorney Bo Duhe of the 16th Judicial District prepares to show a video to the Delcambre Board of Aldermen Monday about a capital outlay project in the state legislature for a new Acadiana Crime Lab building at the Acadiana Regional Airport.

Delcambre passes resolution in support of project; Capital outlay being sought in legislature for new Acadiana Crime Lab facility

DELCAMBRE — The Delcambre Board of Aldermen passed a resolution Monday night in support of a $20 million capital outlay project for construction of a new Acadiana Crime Lab, which covers an eight-parish region and four federal judicial districts.

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