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Last week a question was asked by Police Jury President Jason Picard that has probably never been asked. Can the parish president declare a state of emergency because of many shooting incidents in Abbeville?
The police jury is no stranger to approving a state emergency declaration before or after a hurricane.
But for shootings?
The police jury probably has never called for one due to gun violence.

BATON ROUGE The Louisiana Department of Education named 24 students as finalists in the state’s annual Students of the Year competition and two are from Vermilion Parish.
The honorees include one 5th, 8th, and 12th grader from each of the state’s eight BESE regions.
The two from Vermilion are: Sydney Mouton is a fifth grade student at Rene Rost Middle School, and Braydin Clostio, who is a senior at North Vermilion High School.

According to Vermilion Parish Sheriff Mike Couvillon, on March 1, the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office Criminal Interdiction unit arrested an Abbeville man.
While working Criminal Interdiction, a traffic stop was made on Ethan Baudoin (dob 2003) of Abbeville. Upon making the stop, the deputy encountered a strong order of suspected marijuana coming from Baudoin’s vehicle.
After speaking with Baudoin, the deputy asked if anything was illegal inside the vehicle and was told no. Permission to search the vehicle was granted to the deputy at this time.