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KAPLAN — Kaplan High’s Reagan Smith already felt overwhelmingly honored after being named her school’s Student of the Year.
“There were so many students who were more than qualified to get it,” Smith said of her classmates.
That feeling is now multiplied after the Vermilion Parish School System announced that Smith is the Vermilion Parish High School Student of the Year.

Thanks to its decades of productions in Abbeville, what the Abbey Players has meant to the community is clear.
This year, that impact is being recognized as Abbey Players is the focal point of the official Abbeville Christmas ornament. And for the first time, the ornament is clear.
Abbeville Main Street Director Charlene Beckett said the ornament’s clear design represents what Abbey Player has and continues to offer.

ERATH — With the spirit of Christmas in the air, Jackie Vincent (dressed as Mrs. Claus), and her husband Douglas, stopped by Dozier Elementary to offer a monetary donation for the school to buy a wheelchair accessible outdoor picnic table, as well as books for the library.
The special donation was made in memory of their son, Robert B. Vincent, an Erath High 1997 Erath High graduate, who at the age of 10, was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophy called “Charcot Marie Tooth.”
He attended Dozier Elementary, Erath Middle, and Erath High in the 80s and 90s.