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Mini storage project gets conditional use permit
Despite a six-month moratorium on issuing building permits for the construction of mini-storage facilities, one Slidell businessman was able to get the Slidell Planning and Zoning Commission last week to award him a conditional use permit to build such a facility on Pontchartrain Drive.
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Abita Crawfish Festival Saturday
Everybody with a craving for savory Louisiana mudbugs or a hankering for a good time is encouraged to head out to the fourth annual Abita Springs Crawfish Festival from 11 a.m. through midnight Saturday.
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Orchestra concert Saturday in Slidell
Music lovers of all ages have helped make Some Enchanted Evening with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra one of Slidell’s most successful cultural events for the past five years, and this year should be no different.
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Learn to speak, cook and study the Italian culture at the recently opened Italian Gourmet and Cultural Society on 227 Lee Lane Suite B in Covington.
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More NRCS-financed bayou clearing work done
A Natural Resources Conservation Service contractor is wrapping up work this week on a $50,000 project to clean out clogged sections of the lower reach of Bayou Vincent in Slidell to its flow-point into Bayou Bonfouca near Heritage Park.
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Volunteers gather to clean up Slidell
The sixth semi-annual “Clean Up Slidell” citywide beautification day was held Saturday from 9 a.m. until about 12:30 p.m.
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Pair sentenced to probation for attack
A pair of white post Hurricane Katrina construction workers were each sentenced to two years’ probation Monday for beating up a black man outside a bar in 2006, District Attorney Walter Reed spokesman Rick Wood said.
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Parish officials against sales tax bill
Although state Rep. Jim Tucker, R-New Orleans, recently killed a bill aimed to centralize local sales tax collections in Baton Rouge, a similar bill is still snaking through the House, causing a swarm of opposition from elected brass throughout St. Tammany Parish.
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Program empowers adults to protect children
A child’s safety is an adult’s job.
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First Congressional District election tomorrow
Voters in St. Tammany, Jefferson, Washington and Tangipahoa parishes will decide tomorrow who will represent them in Congress from the First Congressional District.
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Tucked into the pine trees of Abita Springs, the Abita Brewing Co. has opened up what they hope will become a real tourist attraction.
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Farmers market opens in Slidell, organizers deem it a success
The Camellia City Market, the newest addition to Olde Towne in Slidell, opened Saturday in Griffith Park.
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Covington woman dedicated to fighting cancer
For Covington resident Debbie Mormino, fighting cancer is a deeply personal battle.
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Truck stop closures cause conflict
Local business and government leaders must dig deep and rack educated minds together to form solutions to bring new truck stops to the region if the area wants to prove itself as business friendly, said Sandra Slifer, director for the civic group Tammany Together.
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Mandeville council passes temporary storage ordinance
It’s official.
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Slidell Junior High students advance to national science competition
A 20-member team of Slidell Junior High School students will travel to the nation’s capital in May to compete in the national Science Olympiad competition.
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Davis says east St. Tammany booming
St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis painted a very rosy picture of progress and growth for the eastern side of the parish Friday at the Fourth Friday Breakfast of the East St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce.
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Davis criticizes Senate cable bill
Parish President Kevin Davis has joined Slidell city officials in hurling objections at a Senate bill that would provide a statewide-only franchising agreement for cable operators entering Louisiana, a move critics said would increase local cable fees for consumers.
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Budget bills postponed by Slidell Council
Three bills that deal with the fiscal year 2008 budget were postponed Tuesday night by the Slidell City Council.
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Burglary suspect lead police on long foot chase
A report of a disturbance Wednesday morning turned into a day-long search that included a foot chase for the Slidell police.
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Local man faces life in prison as three-time loser
When St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies stopped Slidell resident Patrick Ducre, 39, April 19, 2007, he fled his vehicle and eluded capture leaving a bag of marijuana and a pit bull inside the car.
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N.O. man guilty for Slidell bank robbery
In two separate trials this week, a New Orleans man accused of robbing a Slidell bank was found guilty and a Mandeville man accused of raping a 9-year-old pleaded guilty this week at the 22nd Judicial Court in Covington.
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Crowe: Not trying to keep Acadian Ambulance out
St. Tammany Fire District 11 Chief Robbie Crowe wants Pearl River residents to know he’s not trying to keep Acadian Ambulance out of their town.
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New mental health center opens in Slidell
Mental health professionals and local businesses helped cut the ribbon last week on a new outpatient mental health facility that is open for business on First Street in Slidell.
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Rabalais hired as top legal advisor for St. Tammany Parish
Madisonville resident Kelly McCarthy Rabalais, a lawyer with a private firm since 1999 whose past experience brought her to litigation tables representing other parish governments, was hired as St. Tammany Parish’s top legal advisor, officials announced recently.
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