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St. Mary Magdalen Church in Abbeville will celebrate the Feast Day of their patroness on Thursday.
The feast will begin with a Mass at 6:30 a.m. with Fr. Louis Richard, pastor, presiding. The morning Mass will be followed by a reception of Madeline cookies and Coffee, hosted by the Ladies Altar Society.
This year, the parish will also host another celebration of St. Mary Magdalen in the evening with the performance of a new play called “In the Garden.”
The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m.

The Vermilion Parish School Board gave the OK for school superintendent Tommy Byler to begin looking at putting a new 1/2 cent sales tax proposal on the ballot in the near future.
On Monday during a committee meeting, Byler requested permission from the board members to begin researching on what it would take to get a sales tax passed in Vermilion Parish.
Byler explained that the $4.3 million collected from the proposed 1/2 cent sales tax would go toward school employee salaries only.

Abbeville General updated its COVID-19 policies for visitors, patients and workers.
The hospital released its updated policy last week on its website.
“We continue to closely follow COVID-19 activity across our state and are proactively reviewing all of our response efforts. Thank you for your ongoing participation in the fight against this virus. We have the following updates to share with you,” the hospital released on its webiste.
Here are the new policy procedures for Abbeville General.