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Cameras for Causeway crossovers proposed
Causeway officials plan to install a $300,000 network of motion sensitive cameras that detect stalled vehicles or distressed persons who pulled into the bridge’s crossovers.
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Charmaine Neville playing at Olde Towne Alive
Internationally known singer-dancer-actress-comedienne Charmaine Neville will take the stage at Robert and First streets tonight at 6:15 p.m. for this month’s Olde Towne Alive block party.
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Students learn fire extrication process
Glass was flying and metal was crunching at Fire Protection District 4’s training facility in Mandeville recently.
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Tourism Commission awards funds for two projects
The Tammany Trace Foundation and the city of Covington were the big winners Wednesday after the St. Tammany Tourist Commission heard from three applicants hoping to share $56,663 from the commission’s Special Reserve Fund. Every year the commission sets aside money in the Special Reserve Fund, which is used to help pay for the bricks and mortar parts of projects that promote St. Tammany Parish tourism and attract both out-of-state and out-of-parish tourists. The recipients of the funds must finish the projects in a timely manner.
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With gas prices lower, energy prices to follow suit
Gas prices are dropping like leaves in autumn, but is your energy bill doing the same?
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Pearl River man eludes SWAT before arrest
A Pearl River man was recently arrested after he threatened to kill his wife during a game of Russian roulette, then escaped through thick fog when a SWAT team arrived at their home.
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SYFA coach busted for possession
A Slidell man who coaches for the Slidell Youth Football Association was issued a summons Sunday for possession of marijuana, according to the Slidell police.
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Covington City Council passes 2009 budget
The proposed $18.1 million budget was approved unanimously at a special meeting of the Covington City Council Wednesday night, but not before the meeting turned into a war of words.
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Week 3 Hoopla winners selected
Three St. Tammany News readers won the third round of “Holiday Hoopla” this week.
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Murder suspect has history of KKK activity
Raymond “Chuck” Foster, the alleged Ku Klux Klan leader arrested Monday for killing a woman following a Klan initiation ritual near Sun, has a history of Klan activity dating back at least to January 2001, Mark Potok of Southern Poverty Law Center said.
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Slidell teen celebrates Sweet 16 in hospital
Ashlee Stokes celebrated her 16th birthday at Touro Hospital in New Orleans last week, nearly six months after a head-on collision with an apparent drunk driver left the Slidell teenager in a coma.
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Slidell woman sewing up hats and smiles for cancer patients
Fran Matherne’s dining room has been turned into a sewing room, and for someone who didn’t know how to sew just a few months ago, that’s a pretty big change.
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School Board recognizes parish Teachers of Year
Three St. Tammany Parish teachers of the year, one each from elementary, middle/junior high and high school, were introduced Thursday to the School Board.
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Three men indicted in unrelated sex crimes
Three Slidell men were indicted Thursday by a St. Tammany Parish grand jury on separate rape and incest charges for attacks on girls ranging from 5 to 12 years old.
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Fire districts say rolling millages forward necessary
As fire districts across the parish wrestle over the issue of raising or lowering millage rates, they are caught between a rock and a hard place — either increase the millage rate and further anger taxpayers already saddled with increased property taxes, or roll back the millage and curtail all-important fire fighting and emergency medical services to residents.
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20-year-old arrested for car burglaries
A 20-year-old Mandeville man was arrested Thursday morning, 14 hours after he allegedly started a six-car, $5,000-robbery spree in Covington, police said.
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FD 1 board, chief compromise, but millage still rolled forward
The meeting of the Fire District 1 Board of Commissioners Thursday evening was a standing-room-only gathering as the board, Chief Larry Hess and concerned residents argued whether to roll the district’s share of property tax millage forward or back.
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'Tis the season to buy...vehicles
Thanks to plummeting gas prices, impressive manufacturer deals and the Northshore’s solid economy, conditions are more favorable now than they’ve ever been for purchasing a vehicle, Keith Williams with Robert Levis Chevrolet and Cadillac in Slidell said recently.
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Mandeville police chief announces retirement
“It’s been a great ride,” but it’s over for longtime Mandeville Police Chief Tom Buell.
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McCurley will lead new high school
Slidell Junior High School Principal Brennan McCurley has been named principal of the new high school set to open next August near Mandeville, the St. Tammany Parish School Board announced Thursday.
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Fire marshal: Villere Street fire intentionally set
A fire last Saturday night that torched the Mandeville home of Rodney Boudreaux is being investigated as arson, state fire marshal’s officials said.
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Awards announced; School Board OKs new elementary school'€™s name
Julia Daniel, PTA president at Abita Springs Middle School, received the National PTA Parent Involvement Schools of Excellence Certification Thursday during the St. Tammany Parish School Board meeting.
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Folse address chamber, praises parents
If you ask St. Tammany Parish School Board Deputy Superintendent Trey Folse III, the parish’s recent third-place finish in state school performance scores is largely due to parental involvement.
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Fire District 12 truck collides with pickup, snarls traffic
A Covington fire truck en route to a call Sunday morning smacked into a pickup truck and injured three in a wreck that snarled U.S. Highway 190 traffic for hours, police said.
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Fire destroys Ramsey's Grocery
A passing motorist alerted St. Tammany Fire District 12 to a fire at Ramsey’s Grocery on Louisiana Highway 25 in Covington Sunday.
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