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Sales tax collection in Vermilion Parish stays positive despite COVID-19

Fri, 03/26/2021 - 7:50am

Despite dealing with the COVID-19 for the last year, Vermilion Parish has not slowed down spending money.
The parish collected $353,195 more in sales tax this past January than last January.
For at least the second straight month, sales tax collection is up anywhere from 11 percent to as high as 23 percent in some municipalities.
In January, the Village of Maurice had a whopping 23 percent increase in sales tax collection.
The Village collected $67,472 or about $13,000 more than last year when COVID-19 was still overseas.

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Abbeville man among more than dozen booked for narcotics offenses in Acadia Parish

Wed, 03/24/2021 - 2:43pm

CROWLEY — The Acadia Parish Sheriff Office recent narcotics booking are as follows:
• Elvin Vice, 58, of Abbeville: possession of alprazolam.
• Andretti Bate, 29, of Crowley: felon in possession of firearm; firearm in the presence of a controlled dangerous substance; possession of a controlled dangerous substance in the presence of juvenile; violation of controlled dangerous substance law; possession of firearm with an obliterated serial number; possession of synthetic marijuana.

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Dr. Jermaine Ford, SLCC's vice president of Economic and Workforce Development with Katie Chiasson, CLECO's Senior Business Developer.

Cleco donates $20,000 to establish endowed scholarship for Power Lineman and Electrical programs at SLCC

Wed, 03/24/2021 - 11:19am

PINEVILLE, La. – March 23, 2021 – Today, Cleco made a $20,000 donation to South Louisiana Community College (SLCC) to establish an endowed scholarship for the college’s Power Lineman and Electrical programs.
The Cleco endowed scholarship will be used to recruit, retain and train students enrolled in these training programs. In 2018, Cleco contributed $50,000 to SLCC to help establish the Power Lineman program which recently celebrated the graduation of its fourth class.

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Vermilion Parish School Board still wants nine-member board

Tue, 03/23/2021 - 1:59pm

The Vermilion Parish School Board hired demographer Mike Hefner to begin figuring out how to create nine school board districts.
The school board voted at least two years ago to go from an eight-board to a nine-board because of the population’s rise in the northern part of the parish.
When the board voted to go to nine districts, they also decided to wait until the 2020 census was completed to get accurate population numbers.

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