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Rachel Bui and Phuong Duong are two Abbeville High School Seniors who missed making a perfect score on the ACT by one point.
Both made 35s.
A 36 is a perfect ACT score. Out of the 1.8 million students who take the test each year, only 3,700 make a perfect score.
The number increases to 15,000 students, who made 35s. That is less than one percent.
Despite the great accomplishment by Bui and Duong, few of their friends even know they made 35s.
Abbeville High Principal Dr. Janet Guerrini, in her first year at AHS, recently learned of their accomplishments.

LAFAYETTE — U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that Holden Matthews, 22, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Lafayette to intentionally setting fire to three Baptist churches because of the religious character of those buildings. Specifically, Matthews pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the Church Arson Prevention Act—one count for each church—as well as one count of using fire to commit a federal felony. The fires, which Matthews set over a ten-day period in March and April of 2019, completely destroyed each of the church buildings.

Hoping to find some stability and jump-start its youth recreation program, the City of Abbeville signed a three-year contract with Quality Sports Authority (QSA) in early 2017, and the city is now looking at a possible renewal.
As part of the agreement, the city paid QSA, the non-profit organization based in Erath, $75,000 each year to handle baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, tennis and any other sport approved for boys and girls by the city council.