New St. Landry Parish School Board leaders, from left, are Joyce Haynes, vice president, and Albert Hayes Jr., president. They were elected at Thursday’s meeting. Haynes if from Opelousas and Hayes is from Eunice. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
By Harlan Kirgan
Editor
OPELOUSAS — The St. Landry Parish School Board on a 9-2 vote is requiring students and employees to wear masks until the COVID test positivity rate reaches 5% or below.
The school system has its own testing program, which is showing positivity rates for the virus at 10%.
A state proclamation states 73% of the cases in the nation are from the Omicron variant. The procl…
