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Seventeen year-old drummer Caleb Fitch will be graduating this year from Erath High School.
He began to have a passion for drumming around his 6th-grade year, but didn’t excel until he attended Erath. Since starting drumming, he has been in the honor band.
His first year at Erath High was for his 11th-grade year, and typically switching schools is never a good thing, but not with this drummer. After hearing negative words about his drumming abilities, Fitch used that as fuel and decided to get better and better, and since attending Erath High, he has.

Vermilion Parish and Iberia Parish now have an official map that brings an end to a boundary issue that began five years before the start of World War I.
Engineer Gene Sellers said his research found the issue began in 1909, with the first survey that attempted to resolve the dispute.
It ended last Tuesday, 112 years later, when Sellers presented a map to Vermilion Parish Police Jury President Dane Hebert and Iberia Parish President Larry Richard. Other officials from both parishes joined the meeting, which occurred in the meeting room at the Iberia Parish Courthouse.

South Louisiana Community College unveiled its new Home Health Training Lab at the college’s Gulf Area Campus in Abbeville this week. This lab is the result of a partnership with LHC Group and Myers Family Foundation called “A Legacy of Caring in the Home and Community” that began in 2020.