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After listening to Gov. John Bel Edwards place Louisiana back into Phase 2 due to a large increase in COIVID 19 cases, the Vermilion Parish Public School has decided to go back to the hybrid learning system for the next few weeks.
Edwards announced on Tuesday, and public school gathered Wednesday to figure out a game-plan.
Middle schools and high schools are going hybrid. Elementary students will continue to go to school every day.

Members of the Abbeville Police Department are continuing an effort to reunite a runaway with his family.
Abbeville Chief of Police William Spearman said Logan Byron, 17, ran away from home on Sept. 16, 2020, after an argument with his family. Byron has been listed as a runaway in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC).
Spearman said on Tuesday afternoon that the department has no reason to believe that Byron has been harmed.
“Logan is just staying on the run,” Spearman said.

Louisiana will move back into a modified form of Phase 2 coronavirus restrictions, mostly lower capacity limits for businesses and gatherings, in an effort to slow the state's surging numbers of new COVID cases and hospitalizations, Gov. John Bel Edwards said at a Tuesday press conference.
The mitigation measures will continue to include the statewide mask mandate. Also:
-- All Louisianans are encouraged to avoid gatherings of individuals not part of their households.