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City to close Slidell Auditorium in 2010
Mayor Ben Morris has issued a tentative time line for the demolition and rebuilding of the Slidell Municipal Auditorium almost a year ahead of time.
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MMS student wins Google contest
Mandeville Middle School fourth-grader Elizabeth Laderer is one in million. Well, maybe not a million, but at least 26,000. That’s the number of entries received for the Doodle for Google contest.
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The Slidell Police Department is asking the public’s help in finding an armed robber who stole money from the Subway sandwich shop on Brownswitch Road Monday.
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$40 million hospital expansion opens late May
As Donnie Frederic strolls through a quiet corridor of the new four-story patient tower at Louisiana Medical Center & Heart Hospital in Lacombe, he stops to adjust a picture.
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Shifting lanes on La. 21 start Friday
Travelers on Louisiana Highway 21 north of U.S. Interstate 12 to just past Walgreen’s on Louisiana Highway 1085, also known as Bootlegger Road, will be shifting lanes again on Friday.
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Popular family spot closed for several hours Saturday
Slidell-area families hoping to get a head start on Mothers Day were disappointed when an apparent electrical problem shut down Chuck E. Cheese on Northshore Boulevard for several hours Saturday afternoon.
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An army of women volunteers, dressed in bright pink T-shirts and armed with construction tools, came together this week on Washington Street in Slidell to help with the building of nine East St. Tammany Habitat for Humanity homes.
More of this storyOver $10,000 was raised Saturday at the Stop Drop Rock’N Roll event at Bogue Falaya Park, said Covington Mayoral Assistant Catherine Cooper. The Covington Fire Department will use the funds for educational programs.
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Slidell man convicted in 2008 armed robbery
A St. Tammany Parish jury found Jason Walstrum, 39, of Slidell guilty on two counts of armed robbery last week for robbing a Sonic restaurant at gunpoint in June 2008.
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Four artificial reefs installed in lake
There was good news for fishermen Tuesday as the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation announced they were creating four artificial reefs in the lake, two of which will be in St. Tammany Parish.
More of this storyWhat do actor John Amos, Olympic paddler Rebecca Giddens and NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino have in common?
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Beginning with a moving video tribute and ending with a lone Marine bugler, the Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony paid tribute Thursday to those officers who have died in the line of duty.
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Slidell City Council puts budget on hold
Hoping to get more public input and wanting to add more amendments, the Slidell City Council Tuesday, tabled three bills that would approve of the millage rates, the 2010 budget and city employee’s salary raises.
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Dirt flies for new Winn-Dixie on La. 21
Construction on a 55,000-square-foot Winn-Dixie grocery store has begun on the western side of Louisiana Highway 21 in Covington.
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Impastato receives 18 months for scheme
Former St. Tammany Parish Councilman Anthony Impastato was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in jail by U.S. District Court Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. on one count of illegal solicitation in a scheme to get kickbacks from a company to remove debris after Hurricane Katrina.
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Former Shell executive gets 18 months
A former Mandeville resident and Shell executive was sentenced to 18 months in jail Wednesday in U.S. District Court for tax evasion and mail fraud.
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Armed robbery in Slidell is third in past five days
Less than 24 hours after a Subway shop on Brownswitch Road was robbed at gunpoint, another store on Sgt. Alfred Drive, just blocks away from the Slidell Police Department headquarters, was robbed by a gunman Tuesday afternoon.
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Deliveryman in Slidell fakes armed robbery
A Slidell man who delivers potato chips to local stores was arrested Tuesday afternoon by Slidell police after he admitted to reporting a false armed robbery.
More of this storyThe Slidell Police Department made the following arrests May 6-14:
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Military Road Alliance to host hurricane preparedness meeting
With hurricane season set to begin June 1, the threat of hurricanes will be the topic of the upcoming public meeting of the Military Road Alliance scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday. M.R.A. monthly meetings are held in the dining room of Live Oak Village Assisted Living Center, 2200 E. Gause Blvd. and are open to the public.
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Riot Room will provide a laugh a minute
What do Dat Phan, Kenny Kane and Wes Cannon have in common? They will all be at the Riot Room in Mandeville Saturday night. Jim Richardson, producer of the event, said the trio will provide a relief for the everyday doldrums.
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Mandeville industrial facility looking to expand
The area next door to Mandeville High School and the city’s sewer treatment facility that was once supposed to be a residential neighborhood is now home to a thriving industrial production facility.
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Slidell city employees benefit from new ordinance
Erik Sanzenbach
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Town of Pearl River to proceed on building local water tower
The town of Pearl River has moved a bit closer to its goal of building a new water tower in the Village of Guthrie.
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SMH, FD1 to hold annual camp to fight childhood obesity
For the third year in a row, Slidell Memorial Hospital and St. Tammany Fire District 1 will teach skills for a healthy lifetime during “Fit as a Firefighter,” a free weeklong summer camp aimed at children battling weight problems.
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