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The Vermilion Parish School System is now requiring all students to wear an identification name tag (ID) at all times during school hours. Last week, the school board voted to implement this ID requirement for students from pre-K through 12th grade.
Before the vote, the school system only required students in middle school and high school to have a school ID. Elementary schools had the option of wearing them or not wearing them. Only three out of the 10 elementary schools (Meaux Elementary, Cecil Picard Elementary, and LeBlanc Elementary)  required their students to wear IDs.

Charity Street runs through a key part of the city of Abbeville.
However, the roadway does not belong to the city, as it is state-owned. 
That will change when the city eventually takes over Charity as part of the state’s Road Transfer Program. It’s the program that brought the streets in the downtown area under the city’s umbrella in 2023.
“We are taking Charity from the state,” Mayor Roslyn White said during last Tuesday’s Abbeville City Council meeting, “and it will become a local road.”

In response to concerns from residents regarding speeding in the Godchaux Park area, Abbeville Chief of Police Mike Hardy recently had speeds measured over two weeks.
The good news is that there is not a large number of speeders. However, there is one driver traveling way too fast.
Hardy said Maurice Chief of Police Guy Nerren loaned the department a machine that measures both speed and time traveled. Hardy had that machine placed on South Main Street for one week and then on Fifth Street for another week.