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Is it possible that the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Detective Unit will relocate to the cultural and historical center in the old library in downtown Abbeville? Not if a group of concerned Vermilion Parish residents has anything to say about it.
For the past few years, tenants in the former Hibernia Bank building on Charity Street have housed the Sheriff’s detective unit, located on the second and third floors of the old bank building.

The Vermilion Parish School Board is anticipated to vote Thursday on the proposed increase in health insurance premiums.
On Monday, at an insurance committee meeting, insurance committee members, and school board members listened to HUB International’s Louanna Landry give an hour-long presentation about the future cost of health insurance.
The simple message she gave was that the school board needs to increase the premiums from insurance holders, along with the school board kicking in an extra $300,000 a year.

The Romero family of Abbeville has announced that their son, Landon Romero, was involved in a head-on collision that occurred on Friday morning on La. 338. 
The accident claimed the life of 56-year-old Charles Levine, whose truck crossed the centerline and collided with Romero’s vehicle. Levine’s truck subsequently caught fire. Landon Romero had to be rescued from his vehicle by the fire departments of Erath, LeBlanc, and Abbeville. 
He was initially transported to a hospital in Lafayette and later moved to a hospital in Baton Rouge.