About 50 middle-schoolers built robots out of Legos, painted tribal masks, played ukulele and tested saltwater Wednesday at J.H. Williams Middle School. The school in Abbeville is hosting all Vermilion Parish sixth- through eighth-graders who signed up for Boost Vermilion, a summer learning program that aims to remediate students through enrichment activities like art and STEM. […]
Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser and Louisiana Main Street are proud to announce the 25 Louisiana communities earning 2021 National Accreditation through the Main Street American program.Abbeville is among those communities. “Since its inception in August of 1994 the Abbeville Main Street program has been very successful with the support of the Mayor and City Council,” […]
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) announced that 11 projects around the state were contracted out to nine contractors totaling $36.8 million with $7.9 million coming to the Acadiana Region. “This second letting in May brings our infrastructure investment this month to $74 million,” said DOTD Secretary Shawn D. Wilson, Ph.D. So what […]
For the past 20 years, the Daylily Festival and Garden Show in Abbeville has helped usher in the summer. This year, it’s helping to usher in a return to normalcy. While local health of- ficials continue to urge proper COVID-19 proto- cols, something for which organizers of the Daylily Festival have accounted,this will be one of the […]
Whether the goal is keeping a social distance or just enjoying the fresh air, outdoor dining has become so popular over the last year and The Grub Lot in Erath is the perfect place to do it! “I’ve seen it on Facebook. I saw the address, drove by, looked at it. Yeah, it looks nice, […]
lisha Boudreaux was a stay-at-home mom for most of her adult life, until 2019 when she re-entered the workforce to make ends meet for her family working as a bartender. During 2020, her place of work was shut down three times due to the pandemic. On Christmas Eve of 2020, when Boudreaux found herself out […]
Despite it being a COVID-19 year, sales tax collection continues to show positive numbers in Vermilion Parish, based on the March sales tax report. The parish as a whole collected $4.4 million or $800,000 more than a year ago when COVID-19 first began. On the year, sales tax is up by at least 11 percent and […]
LeBlanc Elementary teachers expanded its French immersion experience beyond learning the language to include another integral part of the culture — the music. More than 30 fourth- and fifth-graders have been learning to play the violin, rub board and triangle over the past year as part of the school’s Fiddle Club. “I joined because I wanted to learn […]
South Louisiana Community College unveiled its new Home Health Training Lab at the college’s Gulf Area Campus in Abbeville this week. This lab is the result of a partnership with LHC Group and Myers Family Foundation called “A Legacy of Caring in the Home and Community” that began in 2020. The Home Health Lab features […]
Abbeville General was awarded an “A” in the spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a national distinction recognizing Abbeville General’s achievements, protecting patients from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade assigns an “A”, “B”, “C”, “D” or “F” grade to all […]