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Mandeville City Council making waves
As storms continue to pound Mandeville and the surrounding areas, the City Council is continuing its own relentless assault on several of the city’s tattered policies.
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Slidell Council increases meter tampering fines, explains new water bills
Slidell is in the process of installing 11,000 new water meters in the city, and in an effort to protect them, the City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday that increases the fines for people who tamper with the meters.
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Parish's state parks closed after Gustav
What took several months to construct, Gustav took several hours to demolish at Fontainebleau State Park.
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Fiscal, energy responsibility lauded at School Board meeting
Dr. John Swang, supervisor of administration for the St. Tammany Parish School System, presented the School Board with four awards given in recognition of the energy-saving measures adopted by the school system.
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Parish president: Entergy should leave St. Tammany
Parish President Kevin Davis on Thursday tongue-lashed Entergy’s recovery performance in the wake of Hurricane Gustav and would just “assume they not be in the parish,” he said.
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Gustav damages nearly 500 homes
Hurricane Gustav’s ripping winds and rains damaged at least 487 St. Tammany Parish homes — more than twice the original estimate, and the count continues to rise, Parish President Kevin Davis said.
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Lacombe man convicted of 5-year-old girl'€™s rape
A 58-year-old Lacombe man was convicted Wednesday night of raping a 5-year-old girl.
More of this storyRain-soaked ground near Lacombe led to the downing of a power line and rupturing of a major gas main Wednesday night, leaving U.S. Highway 190 shut down for two hours.
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Parish battles floodwaters again
Déjà vu.
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Levee in south Slidell overtopped by floodwaters
It took about 30 truckloads of heavy clay and a big crew of Slidell workers and trustees Friday and Saturday to fix a 60-foot breach in a small levee on the south side of Slidell.
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FEMA won't fund debris removal
Like he did successfully three years ago after Hurricane Katrina, Parish President Kevin Davis trucked federal authorities throughout the parish last week, pointing out mounds of debris from the latest storm to clobber St. Tammany.
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Slidell area gets its share of Ike
By Saturday morning, the road leading into the Palm Lake subdivision in south Slidell had been turned into a boat launch.
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DRC center now open in Mandeville
Ten Disaster Recovery Centers have opened statewide, including one in Mandeville, to help victims of hurricanes Gustav and Ike navigate the bureaucratic road to recovery, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said this week.
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At least 316 homes in St. Tammany Parish were flooded during last week’s storm surge from Hurricane Ike, but even those numbers are incomplete, say parish and municipal officials.
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Parish begins debris cleanup effort
Stalled by Hurricane Ike, heavy-duty dump trucks finally rumbled throughout St. Tammany Wednesday, picking up mounds of debris as the parish kicked off its cleanup campaign in full force.
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Storm victims recive $500,000 from FEMA
Just more than two weeks after Hurricane Gustav slammed ashore, thousands of St. Tammany storm victims have been plucked from financial disaster’s door step as the federal government doled out more than $500,000 in disaster assistance locally, a sliver of its statewide aid package.
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DNA LifePrint child safety event set for tomorrow
Endorsed by John Walsh, America’s trusted name in fighting crime, biometric fingerprinting and a DNA identification kit for children will be offered free of charge tomorrow at the Brian Harris Autoplex on 293 Howze Beach Road in Slidell from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Bruce serves at-risk youth through CASA
When you ask Adele Bruce if she has any children, the answer may surprise you.
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Toups elected president of WHEN
If you have visited St. Tammany Parish Hospital in the rain and wondered who to thank for instituting valet parking, thank Sharon Toups, the hospital’s chief operating officer. She also started room service for patients so they can order what they want to eat when they want to eat it.
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Barkley Parc to be part of Covington
The Covington City Council voted 5-2 on Tuesday to annex the Barkley Parc subdivision Phase II-A on West 21st Avenue into the city.
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Abita River flooding less than feared, mayor says; Gustav damage minimal
Abita Springs Mayor Louis Fitzmorris admitted at the town’s Board of Aldermen meeting Tuesday evening that on the Saturday night before Hurricane Gustav made landfall he was scared.
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Western St. Tammany reeling from storms
Coastal communities like Mandeville and Madisonville that were left under several feet of tidal surge from Gustav and Ike are finally drying out. Hopefully, this time it’s for good.
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Food stamp center opening tomorrow in Slidell
Slidell Mayor Ben Morris said Department of Social Services personnel will be at the John Slidell Park gym tomorrow through Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. accepting disaster food stamp applications from residents, the second such facility opened parishwide.
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Katrina took popular Slidell musician'€™s home; Ike floods his final resting place
Hurricane Ike moved a lot of people out of their homes from Louisiana and Texas and all the way up through the country as it rampaged. Some left on their own. Others did not heed calls for evacuation, but were roused to action by wind and water. Still others, unable to react, were completely at the mercy of the hurricane.
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Slidell man sentenced to 35 years for robbery
A 22-year-old Slidell man pleaded guilty to armed robbery Thursday and was sentenced to 35 years in prison for a holdup of a truck stop in Slidell earlier this year.
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