The New Orleans Hornets basketball team will host Hoops & Clovers: 4-H Night with the Hornets. This is a great opportunity for 4-H Club members and their families to attend a professional basketball game featuring the New Orleans Hornets versus the Chicago Bulls. The game will be played at the New Orleans Arena on Friday, [...]
At the last 2011 Council meeting, held on December 20, members debated the merit of repairing a major aspect of the current parish clinic. The council went over several possible plans to pay for the repairs for a broken CT scan unit, weighing the possibility of spending tens of thousands of dollars on repairs or [...]
Girl Scouts is turning 100 in March, and is currently recruiting new members and volunteers in St. Bernard Parish. Girl Scouts in St. Bernard Service Unit 428 are holding a recruitment event on Monday, January 23, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Gethsemane Lutheran Church at 2825 Paris Road, Chalmette. The event is an opportunity [...]
In the last few days of 2011, the ongoing tit-for-tat between Provident Realty Advisors and the St. Bernard Parish Government, in U.S. Eastern District Court Judge Helen Berrigan’s Courtroom, over the four mixed income apartment complexes reached it’s final stages. Judge Berrigan favored Provident Realty’s motion that the Parish sign certificates of occupancy for all [...]
Craig Taffaro attended his final council meeting as St. Bernard Parish President on December 6, as he is set to begin his new post, as the Head of Hazard Mitigation Programs and Recovery Coordination in the Office of Community Development. Taffaro personally announced his departure for the state-level position during his final President’s Address. “This [...]
After talking with legislators and reviewing the data of the commercial shrimp and crab harvesting industries, the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) and Special Pay Master Ken Feinberg have updated the payment methods for these two sets of harvesters, whose many members are still struggling with the aftermath of 2010’s oil spill. Citing the ongoing [...]
In one of the final meetings for the 2011 Council, St. Bernard Parish elected officials spent a great deal of time reviewing the state of the parish now compared to the 2007 platforms that focused entirely on recovery—as they pass the baton to an almost entirely freshman council. Councilman Mike Ginart, District D, took a [...]
Recently, Chalmette Refining and the ExxonMobil Foundation gave $ 20,500 toward the Nunez Community College Process Technology Program. This donation will provide funds for purchasing books and training equipment. Process Technology (P-Tech) is a two year course that is designed to provide industry with qualified process technician candidates. When students finish with an Associate’s Degree [...]
The St. Bernard Parish Sports Hall of Fame (SBPSHOF) held its most successful golf tournament ever, with continuous outstanding support from Gulf Coast Bank and Trust, the major corporate sponsor of the parish’s non-profit organization. With that success, the SBPSHOF was able to make a sizeable financial contribution to the sports department of each of [...]
Best Western on Paris Road is one of the latest businesses to join the growing St. Bernard Chamber of Commerce, and the first new hotel to enter the parish in nearly three decades. Charles Loescher, one of the developers, also co-owns the site with Sinh and Bui Nguyen. “We want to thank you all for [...]
