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Slidell Memorial Hospital is seeking voter approval on a millage proposition that would slightly lower the property tax rate being paid to the hospital while extending it by four years.
As temperatures warm up and mosquitoes become more active, puddles and containers full of water provide a place for these insects to lay eggs. Having standing water for even a short amount of time can ...
A free Bluegrass Jam by the Northshore Traditional Music Society takes place April 25 at 6 p.m. under the Covington Farmer's Market Gazebo, 609 N. Columbia St. All invited to sit in or enjoy. Jam is ...
The St. Tammany Parish Public School system, in an effort to fast-track capital improvement projects and potentially save millions of taxpayer dollars, is asking voters to support a May 3 ...
Trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis has performed around the world and in all the great venues of his New Orleans home many times over, and now the NEA Jazz Master is bringing ...
Gordon Cain, Mike Holland, Tom Schwaner, Jimmy Dykes and Neal Hightower of the Mary, Queen of Peace prison ministry. Not pictured is Sam Burguieres. Every other Wednesday, two men from Mary, Queen of ...
I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony,” the refrain rang out from a choir of 32 men and women, from teenagers up, who had gathered at ...
Sid Edwards is perhaps the highest-profile elected official in Louisiana who had zero political experience before winning his race. But in at least one way, that's working out as a good thing for him ...
Even so, the pair’s play badly was overshadowed by what Zack Baun did in Philadelphia. The Eagles linebacker was a Defensive Player of the Year finalist a year removed from sitting on the bench in New ...
Habitat for Humanity STW, operating in the western half of St. Tammany Parish, recently raised a symbolic first wall of a new house in Covington to kick off the nonprofit's ...
The new one-story brick structure would replace a two-story frame building on the riverfront. The building will have 6,000 square feet of floor space, 3,500-square-feet for the auditorium portion, and ...
A football, wrestling and track athlete while at Jesuit, Randal Agee began his path toward coaching while in college.