Rockets could be launching south of Pecan Island in the near future.
Seven weeks after first breaking possible SpaceX news to the Abbeville Meridional , State Sen. Bob Hensgens (District 26) spoke with the Abbeville Meridional about the still-probable SpaceX transaction and what it could mean for Vermilion Parish and the broader Acadiana region.
There are two new members ready to join the Abbeville City Council.
Bang Bui and Rachel Touchet Mouton won their respective runoff races Saturday night.
Bui defeated incumbent Carlton Campbell for the at-large seat on the council. Bui received 894 votes (63%). Campbell finished with 514 votes (37%).
Mouton claimed the District B seat on Saturday. Fifty-eight percent (210 votes) of the votes went to Mouton on Saturday. Incumbent Francis Plaisance took 42% (154 votes).
On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, at approximately 4:28 p.m., the Abbeville Police Department responded to a call at 501 Veterans Memorial Drive (Popeye’s) for a complaint of customers fighting.
When officers arrived, they found Xavion Broussard and Anayla Williams in a verbal altercation. The manager requested that they all be removed, and both parties went their separate ways.
On Saturday, June 20, at 12:27 p.m., the Abbeville Police Department received a call from an Abbeville General Emergency Room nurse who advised that a person had just come in with a gunshot wound.
The victim, Kobe Vital, Black Male, advised that as he was passing in front of a house on N Lamar Street in Abbeville, a young Black Male subject shot at him and the passengers in his vehicle, striking the vehicle and hitting the victim in the neck.
Despite knowing that the Vermilion Parish School Board may have to spend $2.1 million on teacher salaries next year because of the governor’s unfunded mandate, and considering a possible rise in health insurance premiums after July, plus, the school district is expected to finish this school year in a deficit, the School Board unanimously voted 5-0 to grant all full-time school employees a 13th check (an extra end of the month check).
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