Shannon Motty
Shannon Motty has been promoted to Commercial Loan Portfolio Manager at Gulf Coast Bank. She will oversee Gulf Coast Bank’s loan processors and loan assistants to ensure a streamlined experience for all loan customers, as well as maintain clear communication between all loan operation departments.
The week did not start too well for Abbeville Parks Director Tommy Picard. He received a phone call letting him know Abbeville is no longer putting on the American Legion State Baseball Tournament.
American Legion State Director Ed Wilson informed Picard that he decided not to bring the American Legion State Tournament to Abbeville.
It would have been played on Sellers Field and Theriot Field at A.A. Comeaux Park.
Wilson explained why the state tournament was pulled from Abbeville.
Former Mayor Mark Piazza does the honors on the Vermilion Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting for the Harmony Park Community Garden on June 29.
Harmony Park Community Garden is located at the corner of Lamar Street and Martin Luther King Drive in Abbeville.
Many of the people involved with the garden, including members of the Abbeville Garden Club attended Wednesday morning’s ribbon cutting. The Garden Club adopted the flower bed.
Charlene Beckett shares her thoughts and thanks everyone involved during Wednesday’s
ribbon cutting for Harmony Park Community Garden.
Members of the Rotary Club of Abbeville helped to construct the fence that surrounds Harmony Park.
This is what the lot at the corner of Lamar Street and Martin Luther King Drive looked like before being transformed into Harmony Park Community Garden.
If planting a seed can grow something beautiful in a garden, creating a garden on a once derelict property can sprout lasting beauty in the community.
That is exactly what organizers of Abbeville’s Harmony Park Community Garden have in mind.
City officials, representatives of multiple organizations, benefactors and volunteers gathered Wednesday morning to cut the ribbon on Harmony Park. The community garden is located at the corner of Lamar Street and Martin Luther King Drive, a property adjudicated to the city in 2008. It is eligible to serve a public purpose.
VERMILION PARISH – Shortly after 7:15 a.m. on July 3, 2022, Troopers from Louisiana State Police Troop I were notified of a single-vehicle crash on Louisiana Highway 35 near W. Liberty Farm Road in Vermilion Parish. The crash took the life of 49-year-old Larry August Ragas, Jr. of Franklinton.
The initial investigation by State Police revealed that the crash occurred as Ragas was driving a 2014 Nissan Armada north on LA 35. For reasons still under investigation, the vehicle ran off the roadway to the right, struck a bridge rail, and overturned.
Abbeville Mayor Mark Piazza sits in his office on Wednesday afternoon, his wall still adorned with recognition of his appointments to statewide boards and other achievements earned during 20 years.
Councilman Francis Touchet Jr., Councilwoman and Mayor-elect Roslyn White, Councilman Francis Plaisance and Councilwoman Terry Broussard (L-R) present Mayor Mark Piazza (middle) with a plaque to commemorate his 32 years of service, including the past 20 as mayor.
Mark Piazza has spent the past 32 years, half his life, serving the city of Abbeville.
For the past 20 years, that service has come with the title of mayor. Piazza will wrap up an Abbeville record five terms as mayor when his retirement becomes official later this week. Abbeville will swear in a new administration on Thursday.
Piazza provided a farewell speech during his final city council meeting on June 21.
“Since 1990, for the past 32 years, I’ve had the distinct privilege of serving the City of Abbeville and having a seat at this table,” Piazza said.
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