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Last week the Vermilion Parish School Board adopted the state’s bullying and hazing policy.
The parish had its policy, which piggybacked on the state’s policy. However, that was scratched, and the school board put the state’s bullying and hazing policy into the school district’s handbook.
The state’s bullying policy explains the definition of bullying.
• A pattern of any one or more of the following.
A. Gestures, including but not limited to obscene gestures and making faces.

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.