Chalmette High School students Travis Andry, Mary Maggiore, Amanda Stedman and Kameron Rome all played their parts in the January 7 commemoration of the Battle of New Orleans. The players were part of the Tennessee militia and volunteers who participated in defending the camp, and kept it functioning. Evan Hughes and Rhett Tate, both of [...]
In 2011, the Community Center of St. Bernard celebrated its fifth anniversary and achieved the milestone of distributing our 1,000,000th pound of food to St. Bernard residents still struggling to recover from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Ike and Gustav, as well the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill. In fact, during this past year alone, more than 4,351 [...]
Arabi native Cullen Doody is making his home parish proud through both athletics and academics. This senior is a star runner on the Cross Country and Track teams at LSU, and for the third time, Doody has been named All-Louisiana in Cross Country. He was recently nominated by LSU as the sole male athlete to [...]
As part of on-going testing of St. Bernard Parish’s readiness capabilities, the Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness will conduct a scheduled test of its Emergency Siren System on January 11, at approximately 1 p.m. The test will last for approximately three minutes. This test will also include a broadcast on our AM [...]
National Park Service prepares historic Chalmette site for annual honor Nearly 200 years since the start of the war pitting British and American forces against each other once more, the battles fought and the ideals upheld are still honored. St. Bernard Parish, for it’s part in one of the defining battles of the War of [...]
Los Isleños Heritage & Cultural Society will hold its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, January 10, at 7 p.m. in the Isleno Center at the Isleno Museum Complex at 1357 Bayou Road, St. Bernard. Plans for the Isleno Fiesta ‘12 will be discussed. Volunteers are needed and all are invited to attend this very important [...]
The Gulf Coast Claims Facility officially announced that it would halt any and all pending settlement payments for Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill claims. This action, the direct result of a recent U.S. Eastern District Court order, would require a certain percentage of private and governmental settlements be put in escrow, paving the way for payment [...]
St. Bernard Parish sheriff’s detectives are seeking information on an apparent ring involved in numerous thefts of 4-wheel all-terrain vehicles in the eastern part of the parish in the past several months, Sheriff-elect James Pohlmann said. More than fifteen ATVs, some worth as much as $10,000, have been stolen and sheriff’s detectives have received information [...]
It’s easy to forget that when there are women living at a Battered Women’s Shelter because of domestic problems, such as the one in Chalmette, their children are likely to be there with them. The Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Division and Chalmette’s Knights of Columbus Council donated numerous Christmas gifts Dec. 22 for some 25 youngsters [...]
