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Finally - after 14 months of waiting - Kathy Broussard is the new Vermilion Parish tax assessor.
Today, at 4:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Courthouse, Broussard will be sworn in as the new assessor.
She was elected as the assessor 14 months ago but could not take office until the start of 2009.
Until then, she has remained as the Chief Deputy of the Assessor’s Office.
Out-going tax assessor Mike Langlinais held the post from 1991 to 2008. His last day on the job was Dec. 31, 2008.
Broussard moved into her new office on Monday. She is the first female to occupy that office.

Vermilion Parish welcomed its first baby of 2009 to the world Monday at Abbeville General Hospital. Nariah Chardae Wiltz, a seven-pound, 12-ounce baby girl, was born at 12:14 p.m. Monday to proud parents, 30-year-old Kimberly Landry and her boyfriend, Brady Wiltz of Abbeville.

A year ago, Gerald Butaud had just been elected as a new police juror by the people in the district and not long afterwards, he was elected as the president of the police jury despite never serving.
In his first year, Butuad survived two hurricanes, including one that flooded 400 homes in the parish.
Bottom line, the rookie police juror survived his first term as president.
“I have been dealing with hurricanes when I worked for Family Support,” Butaud said. “Our office always had a role in hurricanes, so I was familiar with Bob LeBlanc. The plan he (LeBlanc) created, works.”

by Rachel Worthy

A statewide program geared toward providing safer trips to school for children announced that applications are available for 2009 for schools, local governments or non-profit agencies that are interested in seeing these improvements made in their own towns.

There were no skid marks. The truck just went straight for the oak tree and hit head-on, killing the driver, 19-year-old Eddie Hulin.

Hulin, of Henry, was involved in a single-vehicle accident Christmas morning. Eddie was heading to Delcambre and was taking a side-road he normally takes when he goes to Delcambre. He was familiar with the road.

The parents of Hulin are puzzled as to why their son went straight into a tree despite it being daylight and the street the accident occurred is straight.

By Chris Rosa
Managing Editor

Mud on the road where a teen-ager was killed on Christmas Day, plus, mud on a gravel road in Leroy has some police jurors concerned that some sugarcane farmers are not cleaning the roads that they are dirtying.

On Christmas Day, 19-year old Eddie Hulin from Henry ran off the road on south of Erath. Hulin was killed on Demosthene Road which intersects Olias Road and Gene Road, about three miles from Erath.