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If you are a festival goer, you will notice that the Cattle Festival set up will not happen in downtown Abbeville any longer.
The Louisiana Cattle Festival Board shared on their Facebook page Monday that the board unanimously decided to relocate the 2018 festival.

Four Vermilion Parish School Board members are suing the board president Stacy Landry and Superintendent Jerome Puyau.
During the Vermilion Parish School Board meetings, many topics are on the agenda due to previous meetings where board members put in a motion or substitute motion for topics to be discussed at a further meeting.
Sara Duplechain, Laura LeBeouf, Dr. David Dupuis, and Kibbie Pillette argue that this is not the case for them. Several times, they have been left pacified, left out, or forced to reconsider in which led these board members to seek civil suit.

One full-time, high-achieving high school graduate from Vermilion Parish will get help with college costs thanks to the Lt. Dronet Detachment Marine Corps League and Gulf Coast Bank Scholarship.
The scholarship is awarded in the amount of $1,000 with installments of $500 per semester to a student attending South Louisiana Community College’s Gulf Area Campus.