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Evangeline Parish School Board votes 9-3 to approve Cabot industrial tax exemption. Full coverage in Sunday’s Gazette.

Sheriff Charles R. Guillory, of the Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office, releases the following:

By a vote of 8-1, the Evangeline Parish Police Jury granted Cabot Corporation’s request for an industrial tax exemption program (ITEP) at a special meeting held Wednesday, April 14.

“Cabot Cooperation is a hometown hero, whose monetary contributions will impact and change so many lives forever,” stated Lacye Hamilton, the Director of Workforce Innovation and Continuing Educati

At the April 13 meeting of the Ville Platte City Council, local business owner Brian Ardoin spoke in opposition of the sheriff’s proposed one-cent sales tax.

CHESTER FITZGERALD ADAMS
December 31, 1935 – April 14, 2021

At the main library in Ville Platte, it is worth repeating that we are now opened on Tuesday evenings until 8 p.m. to accommodate students and the working public.

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The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following recent bookings into the parish jail. Arrested were the following persons: