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KAPLAN — There is a pride in Kaplan schools that stems from what students there accomplish.
Isabella Hargrave is a perfect example.
Hargrave, an 8th-grader at Rene Rost Middle School, is an excellent student in the classroom and active across many levels of the school. That’s part of why Hargrave has been named the Vermilion Parish Middle School Student of the Year.

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.