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Abbeville’s own Holly Boffy was elected president of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on Wednesday morning.
The vote was 6-5, which is unusually close for the board's top job.
Boffy will hold the job for 2023 and she succeeds Jim Garvey, of Metairie.
“I am humbled by and grateful for the opportunity to serve in this capacity,” said Boffy. “My goal is to unite our Board and our state in serving our students through incredible education opportunities. Our schools are the only place some of our students find hope. We owe them our best.”

Only three people in the United States have honored holidays: George Washington, Christopher Columbus and Martin Luther King Jr.
No one person celebrates the three holidays the same.
On Monday, the United States celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Sunday would have been King’s 94th birthday. He was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 39 in Memphis, Tennessee.
King’s legacy is that he led a campaign of non-violent protests and civil disobedience in the struggle to end discrimination, including racial segregation, in the US in the 1950s and 1960s

The 49th Annual Vermilion Parish 4-H Livestock Show and Sale was a huge success. It involved 133 young people who exhibited 271 head of livestock (beef, sheep, goats, dairy, swine) and 85 poultry entries. This event is organized by the LSU AgCenter Extension Service and was held January 13-14, 2023, at the Cecil McCrory Exhibit Building in Abbeville.