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Pearl River mayor's race gets heated
Pearl River Mayor James Lavigne is trying to prove that one of his competitors in the Oct. 2 mayoral election is not qualified to run.
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Residents split on no wake zone for boats
To be able to make a wake, or not to make one is a question in the Lakeshore Estates just to the south of Slidell that is causing some tempers to flare.
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Mandeville introduces $28 million budget
As it prepares to adopt its budget for the new fiscal year, its first under the leadership of new mayor Donald Villere, the Mandeville City Council is projecting a 1.6 percent decrease in sales tax revenue but a 2.8 percent increase in ad valorem tax revenue.
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Burkhalter withdraws from Lt. Governor race
St. Tammany Parish Councilman Ken Burkhalter, who at the last minute Friday qualified to run in the lieutenant governor’s race, announced Monday that he was withdrawing from the race.
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DonahueFavret of Mandeville awarded contract to restore N.O. Hyatt Regency
DonahueFavret\WELBRO, LLC, has been contracted to renovate the Hyatt Regency New Orleans.
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School board reviews construction, transportation
Lee Road Junior High School’s additional 10 classrooms, including restrooms, has been deemed complete as of last Thursday’s St. Tammany Parish School Board committee as a whole meeting for business affairs and administrative.
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From Silicon Valley to St. Tammany
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal made an announcement today that no one would have believed possible even five years ago. A multi-billion dollar company, Globalstar, is moving their corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley, Calif., to Covington.
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Wall being built to stop oil slick
St. Tammany and Orleans parishes have added another weapon to their arsenal to try and keep oil from the BP oil spill from getting into Lake Pontchartrain.
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Waiters to storm the Bastille in Covington celebration
Ooo-la-la! The Eiffel Tower; French waiters adorned in black and white; the arts – all conjure pictures of Paris in the summer – or downtown Covington’s Bastille Day celebration.
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Girl Scouts Louisiana East elects new board members
Trese Taquino Hood of Abita Springs and Mary Jane Becker of Mandeville are St. Tammany Parish residents recently selected to the Girl Scouts of Louisiana East’s Board of Directors and members of the Board Development Committee after an election of officers and members-at-large held during the council’s annual meeting April 24.
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Fairway medical names marketing director
Fairway Medical Surgical Hospital welcomed this month Mary Englehardt as the Director of Marketing and Public Relations. She will be responsible for directing Fairway Medical’s marketing, physician recruiting, public relations initiatives, and community activities.
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John Diggs pushes his granddaughter, Abby Shepperson, on one of the swings at the Abita Playground. Shepperson lives in California and is in town visiting. (Staff Photo by Suzanne Le Breton)
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New Pearl River fire chief still addressing problems
Chief Johnny Leos with Fire District 11 in Pearl River continues to address problems one-by-one as he works to improve the district and repair its reputation in the community.
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Property condemned, events planned in town of Madisonville
A long-time concern of Madisonville residents, a controversy surrounding the property at 1118 Pine Street, owned by Nadine Hayes, was resolved at Wednesday night’s Town Council meeting.
More of this storyVisibly mad after the Board of Aldermen refused to back him up in his effort to have his opponent Clay Harper ousted from the mayor’s race, Pearl River Mayor James Lavigne appeared to call upon members of the Ku Klux Klan to harm one resident who tried to speak out against him.
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New Slidell City Council down to business
With a few electronic glitches, and much good cheer, the new Slidell City Council sat down for the first time together Tuesday to begin a new era in city leadership.
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The Covington Police Street Crimes Unit arrested a man and a woman Wednesday on drugs charges as a result of an investigation that begun last month.
More of this storyThe fourth victim in the fatal crash that took place last month just south of the Mississippi state line on Interstate 59 has been identified as another Mississippi man.
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Sheriff Jack Strain is looking to the public for help as his detectives try to piece together what happened to the Kenner couple that was found murdered and floating in Lake Pontchartrain last week.
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Covington changes change policy
The latest chapter in the continuing saga of change and cash at Covington City Hall now has the administration “making change” for residents paying their utility bill in cash. As of last Thursday, the administration’s policy changed from crediting excess cash payments to next month’s utility bill to providing change for residents.
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Lacey Gill of Slidell took a photo of her 6-month-old son Keegan enjoying his first 4th of July with his very first taste of a Washington Parish watermelon. If you have a photo you would like to subit for consideration for publication in St. Tammany News, e-mail to stnnews@wickcommunications.com or send to P.O. Box 90, Covington, LA 70433.
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Willie “Coach” Jeter of Lacombe will fill the unexpired term in St. Tammany Parish School Board’s District 7 vacated by the unexpected death last year of Sorola “Jody” Palmer.
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“We needed $20,000 for wheelchair surfacing, and that is precisely the amount we won on Chase’s Community Giving Facebook competition,” said LeAnne Cantrell of KidSense, a nonprofit that builds sensory integrated playgrounds for children with special needs and their inclusion classmates.
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Sheriff looking for man suspected of exposing himself
The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s helping in identifying a man considered a person of interest in a case involving public obscenity at a Covington area retail store.
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