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GUEYDAN — The Gueydan Library is currently closed due to the presence of mold in the building.
Angie LeBlanc, the Gueydan librarian, stated that the closure was a result of an inspection that revealed the mold. Remediation efforts will soon be underway and expected to be completed promptly.
Following the library’s closure, Chad Vallo, a Vermilion Parish Police Juror, and Charlotte Bourg, the Vermilion Parish Library Director, responded to the situation.

A $500 iron bench was stolen from the Erath City Park and found in front of Abbeville High School this past Thursday.
The missing bench was reported on the Erath Moving Forward Facebook page with photos of the missing bench and its previous location.
The Erath Police Department also joined the search for the bench.
The next day, the police chief received a phone call from Abbeville High School claiming the bench was in front of the school under oak trees.
The police chief identified the bench and returned it to its original location.

Henri Clay Bienvenu was born in 1941, but his story really begins over half a century earlier, around 1886, with a 12-year-old kid tacking obituary notices to telegraph poles in St. Martinville, notices that he had printed himself on a small hand press in the offices of a brand-new newspaper called the Weekly Messenger.