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School begins today in Vermilion Parish, and there are two Kaplan natives who cannot wait to start their new careers as educators.
Hali Weekly and Mia Bouillion are two rookie teachers in Vermilion Parish.
Kaplan High School has undoubtedly heard the name Mia Boullion before, in fact, several times.
Boullion is proud to announce that she will be teaching at her old stomping grounds, the very place she held dear to her heart for four years until she graduated in 2012.

Members of the City of Abbeville’s electrical crew are continually cutting and trimming tree limbs that are around power lines.
However, there are some areas where it is not safe for the city workers to cut. With that, the city has brought in a company, Global Energy Systems, to handle cutting around the city’s main, transmission lines.
“These are high voltage areas,” Abbeville Public Works Director Clay Menard said. “It can be very dangerous. This company is used to doing work like this.
“It is the same company that does Entergy’s work.”

History students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette have created a podcast series that delves into historic flooding that inundated the state in August 2016.
The flood affected 56 of 64 parishes in Louisiana. Thirteen people died.
In south Louisiana, more than 30 inches of rain fell during an eight-day period. The storms caused more than $8.7 billion in damage across 20 of the hardest-hit parishes.