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“My proudest moment as a student was receiving both the Vermilion Parish School Board Scholarship for Education majors and the Louisiana Governor’s Scholarship for Education Majors,” said now-retired teacher Jessica Riebel as she recalled one of her proudest moments as a student.
As it cannot be narrowed down to one singular event, Reibel said what makes her proudest as a teacher is that she felt privileged to have taught in her hometown of Kaplan. “It was an enormous responsibility that I never took lightly,” she said.

The disturbance in the southern Gulf of Mexico has been given a 90% chance of development into a tropical cyclone by the National Hurricane Center, but it is expected to be dominated by heavy rains and some windy conditions, the National Weather Service’s Lake Charles office reported in the last 24 hours.
During a weather briefing Tuesday afternoon, meteorologist Donald Jones said the system in the Bay of Campeche wasn’t supposed to become better developed until around Thursday or Friday, noting beforehand, it may move into Mexico before moving back into the Gulf of Mexico.

The National Hurricane Center holds the chance for tropical cyclone formation at a high 70% in the Gulf of Mexico.
That is according to the National Weather Service’s update on Tuesday morning.
A broad low pressure area in the Bay of Campeche is expected to move north by Thursday, and will likely be a tropical depression by the end of the week.
With this system heading towards our region, we are expecting higher rain chances and elevated tides starting Friday and continuing through the weekend.