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KAPLAN — Kaplan High School will have a new principal when school starts next year.
Earlier this week, Principal Patricia Thibodeaux informed Superintendent Tommy Byler and her staff that she would not be returning as Kaplan’s principal because she is retiring from the public school system.
Kaplan will have its fourth new principal in five years.
After 31 years in the public school system and a total of three years at Kaplan, Thibodeaux is ready to move on, she said.

BATON ROUGE — Following months of sustained improvement in COVID hospitalizations and an increase in the supply and availability of vaccines, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that some mitigation measures will be eased and, starting Wednesday, April 28, the statewide mask mandate will be lifted.

According to Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office’s PIO Eddie Langlinais, in the last couple of days, a business person in Vermilion parish reported an incident where the use of counterfeit currency was used to purchase goods.
In most cases, a person receiving counterfeit money as payment for goods and/or services is unaware that the cash payment being received is counterfeit money because they simply do not know how to tell the difference.