Parish President David Hanagriff says his opposition to a proposed sales tax for the St. Mary Parish School Board is more in sorrow than in anger. Hanagriff praised the job that the parish’s public schools do. And the raises that the new half-cent sales tax would make possible would even help the Hanagriff family budget. The president’s wife is a teacher. But the timing of the tax during a long stretch of difficult economic conditions is wrong, he said Monday at a St. Mary Industrial Group meeting at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City. “We’re getting by,” Hanagriff said. “But I don’t know ...