Gueydan News

Miss Joan Elizabeth Hargrave and Mr. Brian Charles Jocks were united in marriage on Friday, September 18, 2009, during a candle light ceremony at Our Lady of Wisdom Church on the University of Louisiana campus.

A saltwater injection site, used by an Oklahoma based oil company, has many residents worried in Gueydan.

On the advice of its attorney, the Vermilion Parish Police Jury delayed action Tuesday night to donate 10 acres near Gueydan to the Duck Festival.

Back in May Eyewitness news was the first to tell you about a family in Gueydan that was being blamed for a series of violent crimes in that otherwise quiet community.

Some citizens of Gueydan are upset about a possible salt water injection well proposed to go up in their town.

One of the hallmarks of our culture is an impulse to celebrate, to gather in a public place and share food, music and a little bit of ourselves, to put aside the minutiae of our daily lives and bring the undercurrent of our rich histories to the surface.

Honk! Quack! Woof! Bang! It's time for the Gueydan Duck Festival. The festival runs Thursday through Sunday, and includes dog trials, skeet shooting and the local and state duck and goose calling contests as well as the usual music, parade and pageants.

A waiter gets a table ready for dinner at La Provence restaurant near Lacombe. Summer is the season when New Orleans restaurants get creative.

The Louisiana Office of Conservation has postponed a public hearing scheduled for today on a saltwater disposal well permit application by Toce Energy, LLC for the Hal Stelly Well No.

The U.S. Marshals office is searching for 30-year-old Brady Scott Cormier. Cormier is wanted by the U.S. Marshals, as well as authorities in Acadia Parish, St.

A couple of weeks after graduation, a 2009 Abbeville High graduating senior has died of an apparent drowning in a swimming pool.

ABBEVILLE - The Vermilion Parish Municipal Narcotics Task Force has announced the arrest of 14 suspects and materials seized with a street value of $4,000 in Operation March Madness, an undercover operation conducted during March and April.

Vermilion Parish authorities tell us their undercover drug operation was very successful last night.

All week long we've been covering the story of violence in Gueydan where neighbors feared for their lives as men armed with guns opened fire in the streets of their neighborhood.

Before rice festivals and other agricultural festivals were created, there were agricultural exhibit trains, which consisted of several railcars carrying the most up to date agricultural machinery and products used and grown in nearly every part of the state.

When Russell James Hebert was 3 years old, his godfather began calling him "Toby" after the family hunting dog because he would sit around and eat out of his scraps.

Money set aside by the Louisiana Recovery Authority and Office of Community Development will be implemented in the construction of two drainage projects.

Combining the elements of two stories made for some interesting captions this week.

Baton Rouge, LA V The Louisiana Nursing Home Association announced today that Brian Hensgens of Gueydan, Louisiana has been chosen by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living as a future leader in long term care.