With the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina just a few days away, two local parishes are marking the milestone by holding their first religion classes since the storm. Our Lady of Lourdes Church and St. Bernard Catholic Church are preparing to launch their first lineup of religion and confirmation preparation classes since Hurricane Katrina inundated [...]
The St. Bernard Council this week offered its support for the LSU AgCenter and its local 4-H program in response to sweeping budget cuts that threaten the sustainability of the program. Local 4-H agent Wayne Burgess was on hand to explain the AgCenter’s difficult financial position. “At the beginning of July, the president of the [...]
After nearly five years of operating out of temporary trailers near the iconic Kaiser Aluminum smokestack, leaders of the St. Bernard Port, Harbor and Terminal District officially dedicated the port’s new Administration and Security Complex this week in Chalmette.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced June 16 that the agency has awarded the final contract for the St. Bernard Parish portion of the New Orleans area’s Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System.
The fleet of commercial fishing boats that has been working to defend the parish’s fragile wetlands from the BP oil spill has been absorbed into the oil spill response company BP hired to clean and contain the oil.
At the St. Bernard Parish Council’s meeting this week, Parish President Craig Taffaro reported that the parish has thus far trained more than 500 residents for oil cleanup and that about 200 workers each day are dispatched in oil cleanup efforts
Representatives from British Petroleum and the U.S. Coast Guard tried to reassure concerned St. Bernard residents Monday night that they are doing what they can to stop the massive oil leak and compensate fishermen and business owners suffering because of the disaster
As the frontline fight to protect St. Bernard Parish’s marshes from the oil spill continued this week, the parish council addressed the need for coastal restoration and oil spill protection legislatively through a series of resolutions during its May 18 meeting
With the failure of the first containment dome to stem the flow of crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico and a second device on the way down, BP is left with few options. But the dispersant chemicals that have become a staple in the effort to contain the spill have recently come under public scrutiny.
Nearly two weeks into the temporary relocation of St. Bernard Parish courthouse operations from the historic 70-year-old building on St. Bernard Highway to a string of offices in the Village Square strip mall on West Judge Perez Drive, the sounds of hammers and drills still outnumber the sounds of gavels and court proceedings. But as [...]