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Officials with the City of Abbeville did not take long to get the wheels of the new administration rolling.
After being sworn in on June 29, the new Abbeville City Council met for its first regular meeting on Tuesday.
Along with Councilman Francis Touchet Jr. being voted as the city’s new Mayor Pro Tem, Mayor Mark Piazza appointed members of the Council to various committees.
“At the beginning of every term,” Piazza explained, “it is customary for the mayor to appoint committees. Normally, each councilman has been a chairman of an individual committee.

The American Legion have been selling Sugar Town Watermelons since Sunday to raise money for their Scholarship Fund.
The Scholarship fund is something the Legion does annually, which this is one of many ways the public could help in creating this fund.
The Scholarship fund raises $2,000 and any extra money raised goes into the maintenance fund. If you would like to, you can do so by buying a watermelon or two at the American Legion Vermilion Post 29 building.

When Councilman Francis Touchet Jr. brought up trash and debris pickup during Tuesday’s Abbeville City Council meeting, the concern didn’t center around whether items placed by the side of the road would eventually get picked up.
Instead, Touchet said his question, one that he has received from several of his constituents, is about the pickup schedule.