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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), which works to support rural America and the Nation’s agricultural sector, including farmers markets, recently spotlighted the Delcambre Seafood & Farmers Market for its accomplishments with grant money awarded by the AMS from 2016 to 2019.
In its Seeds of Success series, that highlights the accomplishments and lessons-learned from Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) grant recipients, the AMS cited the Delcambre Market as “an example to farmers markets around the country.”

Two people have been booked in connection to a shooting earlier this month that left one man dead.

According to Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office PIO Eddie Langlinais, after a month long investigation into the theft of scrap metal from a local scrap yard, the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office’s Criminal Investigation Division has made two arrests.
Warrants were obtained for father and son Michael Rene Watson, 43, and Justice Rene Watson, 21, from Abbeville.
Each were arrested without incident for 3 counts of Felony Theft. Both have been booked into the Vermilion Parish Correctional Center with bond set at $15,000.00 each.