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The Vermilion Parish School Board is having a special meeting Monday to name the new interim superintendent.
The meeting gets underway at 6 p.m.
An interim superintendent will run the day to day operations of the school system until a new permanent superintendent is named.
The board has to name an interim superintendent because former superintendent Jerome Puyau stepped down as the superintendent last month. Puyau is still on the school system’s payroll for the next nine months as a consultant to the new superintendent.

KAPLAN — Damage to a main electrical transformer caused a citywide power outage in Kaplan Thursday afternoon.
Electrical crews had power restored by Thursday night.
“I want to thank everyone for their patience last night while the electrical crews worked to get our power restored,” Kaplan Mayor Mike Kloesel said in a post Friday morning. “I want to send out a special thank you to everyone that worked overtime in the rain getting power restored as quickly as possible.”

The Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office D.A.R.E. program recently graduated students from five parish schools.
D.A.R.E. instructor Marcus Hebert taught the students of the negative consequences of drug use, the effects of bullying and violence, conflict resolution, and how to make the right decisions by incorporating decision making techniques.
Graduates included 5th-graders from Indian Bayou, Mt. Carmel, Leblanc, Jesse Owens and Meaux.