BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development staff is preparing to respond in the event of adverse weather. Forecasts call for freezing temperatures with the possibility of wintry precipitation in some areas of the state this coming weekend.
DOTD will have crews out scouting the roadways and bridges and will be prepared to respond, if necessary.
LAFAYETTE – More than $80,000 in scholarships was awarded to students at South Louisiana Community College for the current Spring semester.
DELCAMBRE — The Town of Delcambre approved Emergency Management hazard Mitigation Plan for Iberia Parish and Vermilion Parish.
The twin parish town had the benefit last night to decide to adopt two Emergency Mitigation plans that will only benefit them in the long run if the town were to suffer a major natural disaster. Prescott Marshall from Iberia Parish and Homer Stelly from Vermilion Parish presented the board with the smart decision to include both plans, in which the board agreed to do.
The New Iberia Research Center is home to more than 8,500 nonhuman primates and is the nation’s largest academically affiliated, nonhuman primate research center. (Photo courtesy of University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
The road to the first globally available COVID-19 vaccine ran through the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Trials involving nonhuman primates at UL Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center helped determine the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the world’s first fully tested COVID-19 immunization approved for emergency use.
“We are so privileged to have been on the front lines of the fight against the pandemic,” said Jane Fontenot, NIRC’s director of Contract Research. “It’s very rewarding.”
The Lafayette and Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Offices would like to warn citizens of a current phone scam in which the scammer is posing as a member of local law enforcement.
The scammer claims to have a warrant for the recipient’s arrest, demanding money in exchange for resolving the warrant.
Please be advised, neither the Lafayette nor the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office seeks any type of payment over the telephone.
The forms of payment the scammer requests are most often non-traceable and non-transferable, so recovery seldom happens.
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