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Police cars blocked off streets near the school.

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Police meet by Erath city hall .

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Buses were waiting for the students.

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Students were moved to the Community Center in Erath while the schools were checked for a bomb.

All clear given to Erath schools

Fri, 02/07/2020 - 11:06am

UPDATE: The ALL CLEAR has been given in all schools in Erath.
Officials will begin the process of getting students back to their classes

Public Information Officer Drew David with the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office is reporting that their office is assisting the Erath Police Department with an alleged bomb threat within the city limits of Erath.
The Sheriff's Office made one sweep of the schools and could not find any bomb. They are conducting a second sweep of the schools as of 11 a.m.

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This is a sculpture on display at North Vermilion High School. These look like a pile of real shoes that the students are collecting. It is actually shoes made of plaster and card board that represent those who died in the Holocaust.

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These look like real shoes but they are made of plaster and card board and are on display at North Vermilion High School.

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There are 150 pairs of shoes made of plaster and card board stacked against the wall in the main hall at North Vermilion High School.

Shoe sculpture at North Vermilion remembers the Holocaust victims

Fri, 02/07/2020 - 9:47am

Walk into North Vermilion High School, and you will see a bunch of shoes stacked up against the wall. It looks like North Vermilion has a shoe drive. But if you go closer to the shoes, you will learn they are not real shoes.
Instead, the shoes are made of plaster and cardboard and painted to look like real shoes. The reason they are there is that they are part of a sculpture created by the four art classes at North Vermilion. The sculpture will be on display by the office for the next couple of weeks.

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Zontre Scott

Abbeville’s Scott named Acadiana’s Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year

Fri, 02/07/2020 - 9:02am

You may have seen the name Zontre Scott in the newspaper recently as he has been leading the Abbeville High basketball team in points this season. What you may not have known is that Zontre has also been achieving success off of the court as well through the Boys & Girls Club.
Since 1947 the Youth of the Year program has been Boys & Girls Clubs premier recognition program, celebrating Club members' extraordinary achievements.

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A sample of “gray death” recovered by the St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Dept.

PUBLIC WARNED ABOUT ‘GRAY DEATH’

Wed, 02/05/2020 - 2:13pm

FRANKLIN — St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office’s is warning the public about a new type of heroin so deadly it’s being called “gray death.”
Officials say that the drug, which has now been found in Louisiana, is so powerful that just touching it can kill you.
According to David Spencer, spokesperson for the St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office, “The public recognizes a lot of the drugs that we deal with. This is a new one.”
It has the appearance of small chunks of concrete.

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Carlee Alm-LaBar

United Way of Acadiana has new CEO/President

Wed, 02/05/2020 - 9:09am

The United Way of Acadiana has named Carlee Alm-LaBar its new President/CEO of United Way of Acadiana, bringing to the organization her deep understanding of the issues and extensive community contacts.
“Over the last several years, I’ve been in positions that allowed me to see the needs and opportunities in our region. United Way of Acadiana is a perfect fit to leverage that knowledge and bring people and passion together to improve the lives of our citizens, Alm-LaBar said.

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