The Vermilion Parish School Board has announced that summer school for certain grades will no longer be free, as it has been since 2020.
Kim Etie, the assistant superintendent, stated that the school district will now charge students who attend summer school.
Etie explained the change to the board members.
Early voting machines in the court house in Abbeville.
Vermilion Parish Registrar of Voters Tina Broussard wasn’t sure exactly what kind of start to expect for early voting for the March 29 election, which opened this past Saturday.
There’s only one race on the ballot for the March 29 election, and that’s a special election for a seat on the Abbeville City Council. However, four constitutional being on the ballot opens it up to every voter in Vermilion Parish.
Nearly 700 voters have already taken part in the process. Broussard said as Tuesday morning that 222 voted in-person, with another 470 returning absentee ballots.
Scott Gastal
LAKE CHARLES — Some have called Vermilion Parish native Scott Gastal a hero after he testified against former Catholic priest Gibert Gauthe, who admitted to sexually abusing more than two dozen children while serving in the Diocese of Lafayette.
Gastal was only 11 years old when he testified
His testimony back in the 1980s helped set in motion the exposure of widespread sex abuse and cover-ups nationwide.
Lane Broussard found her “Why I Love Abbeville” first place plaque she won 30-plus years ago.
A copy of the letter that Lane Broussard wrote about Abbeville as a fourth grader at Mt. Carmel Elementary in 1993. The letter was in the time capsule that was opened on Thursday.
Councilman Brady Broussard read a letter found in the time capsule. The letter was written my Mt. Carmel student Lane Broussard on why she loves Abbeville.
Lane Broussard was surprised to discover that a letter she wrote in fourth grade at Mt. Carmel Elementary in 1993 had been buried in a time capsule in Magdalen Square.
On Thursday, to celebrate Abbeville’s 175th birthday, Mayor Roslyn White and city officials opened the 30-year-old white plastic time capsule buried in the gazebo floor.
Mayor White gradually removed all the items from the time capsule and showed them to the crowd.
One of the items the Mayor removed was a laminated letter written by a fourth-grade student from Mt. Carmel.
Abbeville Mayor Roslyn White holds up a print of the gazebo that she pulled from the time capsule.
Dozens gathered Thursday morning in Magdalen Square to celebrate Abbeville’s 175th birthday.
Originally founded by Père Antoine Désiré Mégret, a special legislative charter signed on March 13, 1850, officially incorporated the city.
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