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My name is Nick Touchet and I am pleased to announce my candidacy for the newly added District I seat on the Vermilion Parish School Board.
I was born and raised and a lifelong resident of my district. I am married to Alaina Hebert Touchet from Erath, and we have four children, Kennedi (23), John Nick (18), Meg (16) and Ana Kate (10). Our children attend or have attended public schools including Meaux Elementary, North Vermilion Middle School and North Vermilion High School.

The nation is on the downside of the sixth surge of the COVID Omicron variant, monkeypox is on the emerging and fentanyl is a rising deadly threat.
That sums up the message from Dr. Tina Stefanski, regional medical director for the Louisiana Department of Health’s (LDH) Office of Public Health in Acadiana (Region 4).
Stefanski and Stacy Conrad, opioid prevention outreach coordinator for the office of Public Health Region 4, spoke at Wednesday’s Eunice Rotary Club meeting.
Their focus was on fentanyl, a synthetic drug causing an increasing number of deaths.

NEW ORLEANS – A Gueydan man and a Kaplan man were two of six people indicted last week by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
Indicted were Lance M. Vallo, 37, of Gueydan and Grant C. Menard, 35, of Kaplan.
Also arrested were Ryan Mullen of Jayess, Mississippi, Duane Dufrene of Destrahan, Dillilon Arceaux of Marrero, Louisiana and Zeb Sartin of Lafayette, La.