State plans for mobile COVID-19 vaccination teams, ready to receive more doses
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 8:13am
By David Jacobs |
The Center Square
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Kaplan Police responds to bomb threat at Rene Rost Middle; students safe after evacuation
Wed, 02/03/2021 - 2:19pm
KAPLAN — Students at Rene Rost Middle School in Kaplan had to be evacuated from campus Wednesday afternoon due to a reported bomb threat.
Kaplan Chief of Police Joshua Hardy said his department responded to the incident. Officers searched the building.
According to Vermilion Parish Superintendent Tommy Byler, all students were moved to Holy Rosary Catholic Church. He said normal dismissal would take place there.
Byler said the Kaplan Police Department placed officers at the school and they had K9s sweeping the building.
Church Point Woman Dies in Single-Vehicle Crash in Lafayette Parish
Wed, 02/03/2021 - 12:36pm
LAFAYETTE PARISH – At approximately 3:30 a.m. on Feb. 3, 2021, Troopers from Louisiana State Police Troop I began investigating a single-vehicle crash on LA Highway 98 near Pavie Lane in Lafayette Parish.
The crash took the life of 25-year-old Ashley Murray Menard of Church Point.
Charles A. Patout, Founder of Gulf Coast Bank
Gulf Coast Bank’s original building and temporary facilities.
Gulf Coast Bank celebrates 50th anniversary
Wed, 02/03/2021 - 10:28am
Fifty years ago, Gulf Coast Bank opened its doors for the first time in Abbeville, LA, where the Main Office still stands today.
When the Bank’s doors first opened in 1971, banking was very different. There were no computers, and all processes were manual.
The original building was a small trailer and the bank had only four employees: Lorraine LeBlanc, Richard Dubois, Ruby Bertrand, and the founder of Gulf Coast Bank, Charles A. Patout.
Charles Patout recognized the underserved market in Vermilion Parish and made it his mission to open a new bank.
Abbeville woman, Kaplan man among several narcotics arrests in Acadia Parish
Tue, 02/02/2021 - 9:52am
ACADIA PARISH — The following drug-related arrests were recently logged by the Acadia parish Sheriff’s Narcotics Division.
• Angelle Adams, 26, Sulphur: distribution of sublinguals; possession of cocaine, possession of ecstasy; possession of marijuana.
• Dakota Broussard, 28, Rayne: possession of methamphetamine; misdemeanor possession of marijuana; possession of drug paraphernalia; possession of Legend drug.