Tempers flare over eight-lane track at Ville Platte High

By News Staff on Monday, October 24, 2022
  • PINE PRAIRIE STUDENT RECOGNIZED - Grace Bordelon, a senior at Pine Prairie High School, was recognized for being the only student to make the top state symphonic honor band. She is shown with, from left, Assistant Superintendent Mike Lombas, Superintendent Darwan Lazard, Pine Prairie Band Director John Havard, School Board President Wayne Dardeau and Pine Prairie Talented Music/Percussion Director Taylor Naquin. (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)
    PINE PRAIRIE STUDENT RECOGNIZED - Grace Bordelon, a senior at Pine Prairie High School, was recognized for being the only student to make the top state symphonic honor band. She is shown with, from left, Assistant Superintendent Mike Lombas, Superintendent Darwan Lazard, Pine Prairie Band Director John Havard, School Board President Wayne Dardeau and Pine Prairie Talented Music/Percussion Director Taylor Naquin. (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)
By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor Part way through the October 19, meeting of the Evangeline Parish School Board, deputies with the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office were called to the scene when things got heated over a discussion of building an eight-lane track at Ville Platte High School. Board member Ellis Guillory and John Richard, a member of the audience, got into a heated argument over…

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