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A year has come and gone since the campaign “Light the Highway for Ramsie” was introduced to the world by Sherie Dubois.
A year ago this month, Dubois spoke to the Vermilion Parish Police Jury and state highway officials about what it would take to put lights along U.S. Hwy. 167 between Maurice and Abbeville.
She stated the route was too dark and needed to be lit.
She began the campaign “Light the Highway for Ramsie” because of the death of North Vermilion senior Ramsie Baumgardner.

DELCAMBRE — The Delcambre Board of Aldermen is still getting no resolution to the faulty customer water shutoff valves installed when upgrading water meters and pipes for residents a couple of years ago.

It is no secret that Vermilion Parish has some old school buildings. When you have buildings that average 50 years old, things break and need to be repaired.
The oldest school is Indian Bayou Elementary, which began as a high school around 1949, making it 74 years old.
Recently, Assistant Superintendent Marc Turner and a group of school system employees visited all 20 schools in search of what is needed to be repaired or replaced at each school.