Brian Guidry farms 400 acres in Vermilion Parish.
Erath sugarcane farmer named to state FSA board
Tue, 04/25/2023 - 9:19am
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Superintendent Tommy Byler talks to the school board members about the pay raise.
Vermilion Parish School Board expected to approve giving pay raise to all employees
Fri, 04/21/2023 - 8:46am
The Vermilion Parish School Board will vote Thursday on giving all employees a pay raise that will cost the school district just under $2 million.
Superintendent Tommy Byler addressed board members during Monday’s Committee of the Whole Meeting. Byler presented how his department devised a way to give teachers and administrators a $ 1,500-a-year pay raise. Also, the support staff will get a $ 750-a-year pay raise.
“This was the only number we could afford,” Byler said. “This is what we could do.”
The original members of the Vermilion Parish Ragin Cajun Club. The young ladies (left to right) are Jennifer Rogers, Christine Dubois, Celeste Moss, Cherie DeHart and Theresa Gaspard. The top row (left to right) is Greg Dubois, Todd Dore, Michael Moss, John Bordelon Glenn Dehart, Randall Gaspard and John T. Landry.
(left to right) Celeste Moss, Jennifer Rogers, Theresa Gaspard, Christine Dubois and Cherie Dehart work one of the first get-togethers for the USL Vermilion Ragin Cajun Club.
Celebrating 40th Birthday: Ragin Cajun Club will throw party Saturday
Fri, 04/21/2023 - 8:43am
The Vermilion Parish Ragin Cajun Club will be celebrating its 40th birth day on Saturday.
The club will celebrate its birthday by having a get together Saturday at Southern Oaks Country Club in Abbeville.
A registration fee of $25 per person includes five pounds of crawfish and non-alcoholic drinks. A cash bar will be available for beer and mixed drinks. For children under 12, a hot dog package for $5 is available, including a hot dog, chips and soft drinks or water.
It will be held from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The deadline to register is Tuesday, April 18.
Superintendent Byler: Finding resource officers is the problem, not the funding
Tue, 04/18/2023 - 10:39am
The Vermilion Parish School Superintendent thinks it is an excellent idea for the Louisiana Legislature to pay resource officers in schools. Still, there is one slight problem with that idea.
How are schools going to find these school resource officers? Despite having the funds to pay them, Vermilion Parish is still looking for high school resource officers today.
“Funding would help, but it is more of a human capital issue at this point,” said Superintendent Tommy Byler. “Maybe increasing funding (for resource officers) could draw more interest in these positions.”
Town of Delcambre still battling company over replacing water valves
Tue, 04/18/2023 - 10:35am
DELCAMBRE — The town of Delcambre will make a counter proposal to Coburn’s offer to replace water valves that proved to be defective, the town’s Board of Aldermen decided at Monday’s regular meeting.
Coburn’s offered to replace the valves, Mayor Pam Blakely said, but Alderwoman Sarah Trahan said she didn’t think the town should have to pay to replace the valves after it had already paid to put the valves in to begin with.