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Honoring the heroes

After serving five hellacious years in Iraq, Folsom’s Michael Savoie has come face to face with death, his desert days in 125 degree heat spent dodging bullets, launching grenades and saving bloody, dying comrades.

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Three Rivers Art Festival offers fun, art

Over 200 artists in every medium ranging from jewelry to oil and watercolor fine arts will descend upon Covington this weekend for the Three Rivers Art Festival downtown.

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YSB installs new board members

Youth Service Bureau, a private, non-profit United Way partner agency with offices in Covington, Slidell, Franklinton and Bogalusa, recently installed five new members to its board of directors at an installation dinner held at Benedict’s Plantation Restaurant in Mandeville.

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Annual Polo Classic match marks start of fall philanthropy season

The first sign of fall ushered in The Junior League of Greater Covington’s 12th annual Harvest Cup Polo Classic, Oct. 26, at the Folsom Equestrian Center.

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Education

M&Ms, Skittles face off

While adults wrestled with choices in this week’s presidential and local elections, students as young as kindergarteners were also making monumental decisions.

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Chris Ginn

What is your name? Where do you teach? Chris Ginn, Boyet Junior High School in Slidell.

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Golden baton leads FHS band to victory

The “Crimson Band from Bulldog Land” was named the Louisiana Showcase of Marching Bands Reserve Grand Champion recently at the state competition held in Lafayette.

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Food

Hearty veggie soups a cool weather meal-in-a-bowl

Soups are to cool weather as salads are to warm weather. Fireplace evenings are just around the corner with their images of a cheerful blaze, a cup of hearty soup, a loaf of French bread, a glass of wine and thou.

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