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On the April 30 ballot, Vermilion Parish School Board is seeking a .5% sales tax increase to fund teacher and employee pay raises. 
The Vermilion Chamber of Commerce submitted questions to Superintendent Tommy Byler. The Chamber has allowed the Abbeville Meridional to run the responses. The Meridional is running Byler’s responses exactly as he returned them to the Chamber.

LAFAYETTE — United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Raymond Hawthorne, Jr., 48, of Abbeville, Louisiana, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Jay C. Zainey to 57 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl. Hawthorne pleaded guilty to the charge on November 4, 2021.

In an effort to combat impaired driving in our area, Louisiana State Police Troop I plans to conduct a sobriety and seat belt checkpoint on Thursday, April 28, 2022 from approximately 8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. at an undisclosed location in Acadia Parish. Our mission will be to detect and arrest impaired drivers before they can cause injury or death to themselves or others. Additionally, we will be checking vehicles for unrestrained motorists and occupants in an effort to reduce the number of traffic-related fatalities caused by not wearing a seat belt.