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Dr. Jermaine Ford, SLCC's vice president of Economic and Workforce Development with Katie Chiasson, CLECO's Senior Business Developer.

Cleco donates $20,000 to establish endowed scholarship for Power Lineman and Electrical programs at SLCC

Wed, 03/24/2021 - 11:19am

PINEVILLE, La. – March 23, 2021 – Today, Cleco made a $20,000 donation to South Louisiana Community College (SLCC) to establish an endowed scholarship for the college’s Power Lineman and Electrical programs.
The Cleco endowed scholarship will be used to recruit, retain and train students enrolled in these training programs. In 2018, Cleco contributed $50,000 to SLCC to help establish the Power Lineman program which recently celebrated the graduation of its fourth class.

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Vermilion Parish School Board still wants nine-member board

Tue, 03/23/2021 - 1:59pm

The Vermilion Parish School Board hired demographer Mike Hefner to begin figuring out how to create nine school board districts.
The school board voted at least two years ago to go from an eight-board to a nine-board because of the population’s rise in the northern part of the parish.
When the board voted to go to nine districts, they also decided to wait until the 2020 census was completed to get accurate population numbers.

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Gov. John Bel Edwards

ATTEMPT TO RECALL EDWARDS FALLS SHORT

Tue, 03/23/2021 - 1:53pm

BATON ROUGE — Efforts to remove Gov. John Bel Edwards from office because of complaints about his coronavirus restrictions and mask mandate have failed.
The Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office said Friday that all parishes but one have completed counting signatures on a petition seeking to recall the Democratic governor, and the numbers have fallen far below what is needed to force a recall election.

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Abbeville Council votes to bring unincorporated ‘island’ into city limits

Tue, 03/23/2021 - 9:47am

Islands have been a recurring topic of discussion for the Abbeville City Council in recent months.
Abbeville has five “islands” within the city limits. Those are unincorporated areas that are completely surrounded by city limits, but are not part of the city and not subject to the city’s ordinances, a fact that has created some concern for city officials.
After Tuesday’s regular city council meeting, there is one less island in the city.

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