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KAPLAN — At Tuesday’s city council meeting, Kaplan City Police Chief Josh Hardy introduced Robert LeMay as the new assistant police chief. However, LeMay, who was in the audience, heard an earful between the council, police chief and Mayor Mike Kloesel on his hiring.
LeMay resigned from the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office to become the assistant chief of police in Kaplan. His first day on the job is today.

DELCAMBRE — The town of Delcambre is losing at least one member of its police department, the Board of Aldermen learned at its monthly meeting on Monday.
The officer told the board he is leaving because he had been led to believe he would receive a pay increase from $13.50 an hour to $15 an hour, but that raise never came to fruition.
The policeman said he had been led to believe on three or four occasions that a raise would be forthcoming.

Sugarcane needs water; without it, it will not grow and could die.
Over the last month, the parish has received little or no rain and has dealt with 100-degree temperatures. Today’s sugarcane can handle high temperatures, but it cannot take not having rain over an extensive period.
The parish is dealing with extreme drought conditions, the worst in at least 25 years.
Sugarcane can grow 10 to 13 feet high when Mother Nature cooperates. Today, some sugarcane crops are only four to five feet tall, and the leaves are turning brown because of the lack of water.