Abbeville’s McKinsey Nicholas (4) and Darrian Washington (right) have yet to have a basketball game canceled due to COVID. (Photo by Michael Odendahl)
(The Advocate Newspaper contributed to this story)
BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) estimates the proportion of Omicron cases in our state has increased from 88.5% to 90.2% for the week ending January 1.*
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates the proportion of Omicron in HHS Region 6 (which includes Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas) is 98.2%. Furthermore, 63 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes (98.4%) are at the 2 highest levels of community transmission; one remains unclassified due to low test volume. This is an increase from last week's 95%.
With the increase of COVID over the last two weeks, Vermilion Parish school systems took a step back to see if they needed to make any changes to their COVID policies.
Superintendent Tommy Byler informed students and parents this past weekend that there would be no school this past Monday, but teachers and staff had to report.
Catholic schools in the parish also did not have school on Monday.
After meeting with teachers, Byler did not make any drastic changes to the COVID policies.
Kevin Meyers
Citizens of District B,
Crews worked Thursday morning to replace the transformer at the Felicity Street Electrical Substation. The city is reporting that, as of noon, power has been fully restored on the south side of Abbeville.
As of noon on Thursday, power has been fully restored on the south side of Abbeville.
City officials announced that the damaged transformer at the Felicity Street Electrical Substation has been replaced.
Anyone who is in their home and does not have power can contact the city at 337-893-8550 to report localized outages.
318 N. Main St.
Abbeville, LA 70510
Phone: 337-893-4223
Fax: 337-898-9022
219 North Cushing Avenue
Kaplan, LA 70548
311 Main Street
Gueydan, LA 70542