AMITE--Winn-Dixie is putting on a Summer Bash Saturtday, June 1 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. --Lots of fun, food, more fun! --family and kids events! Winn Dixie is at 804 West Oak Street, Amite You c...
GRADUATION: Loranger High Class of 2013 Check back for updates HAMMOND--The Loranger Wolves Class of 2013 became official graduates shortly before 8 p.m. May 13. A couple thousand family members and friends shouted and cheered as their...
AMITE-- A benefit pageant for Tangipahoa Parish Fair Association is June 8, called "Southern Louisiana Beauties & Beaus," according to Vickey DiMattia, Pageant Director, President of 125th Tangipa...
HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University's College of Business recognized its top students at the college's annual honors convocation May 9. Award recipients included Abhishesh Acharya and Ash...
AMITE--Applications for the current year’s Master Gardener Program are now available at the LSU AgCenter Extension office in Amite. "We feel that this is an excellent horticulture training progra...
NATCHITOCHES, La. – The Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA) will hold its 2013 Graduation Ceremony on Saturday, May 25 at 2 p.m. in Northwestern State University’s Prather Col...
By Don Ellzey AMITE -- Replacement of the chilled water pipe system at an estimated cost of $179,000 is among improvements planned at Hood Memorial Hospital in Amite with the approval by the Tangi...
AMITE--Courtney Ourso, a 2013 graduate of Oak Forest Academy, won first place in the Louisiana State Catholic Daughters of the Americas State Contest in Education. It was Division III-- photograp...
AMITE--Winn-Dixie is putting on a Summer Bash Saturtday, June 1 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. --Lots of fun, food, more fun! --family and kids events! Winn Dixie is at 804 West Oak Street, Amite You c...
Check back for updates HAMMOND--The Amite High Class of 2013 rocked the University Center Monday, May 20 beginning at 7 p.m. By 7:45 p.m., they were on their way out the door and onto a new life...
By Don Ellzey AMITE -- It took the Tangipahoa Parish School Board three and one-half hours on May 15 to agree to proposals submitted by the administration to bring next year's budget into balance,...
HUSSER--The National Wild Turkey Federation is sponsoring a 4-H Youth Shooting at Covey Ride Lodge, Husser. The sporting clays event will be June 6 at the Covey Rise Lodge. Sign-in time is 8 a.m. ...
By Don Ellzey AMITE -- Members of the Sumner High School track team were recognized during the May 22 meeting of the Tangipahoa Parish School Board for being the state 3-A track champions. Team me...
By Don Ellzey AMITE -- The Tangipahoa Parish School Board may be asked to take another look at its prohibition against corporal punishment--paddling. Board member Gail McDaniel asked during the Ma...
April Laurette Henry of Lacombe and Paul "Bud" Alford II of Kentwood will marry in a late November wedding in Hammond. The bride-elect is the daughter of Jack Henry of Cleveland, Ga. and Stacey He...
Amanda Robertson and Devin Hyde have chosen a special date to wed 12/12/12
The bride-elect is the daughter of Daryl and Mary Jo Robertson of Pine Grove. She is the granddaughter of Frances ...
Allison Huggins and Brent Varnado, both of Amite, will marry in a 4 p.m. ceremony Oct. 27 in Darlington.
The bride-elect is the daughter of Deborah Sitman of Kentwood and Douglas Huggins of Baton R...
Bride-elect April Field of Amite was honored with a bridal brunch on August 25, 2012. The brunch was attended by the bridesmaids and family members who assisted April with completing wedding inv...
Mr. and Mrs. Jason Tastet of Amite announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter Jammie Richelle Dowden to Brandon William Olsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hammons of Denham Sp...
Erin Taylor Sharkey of Amite and Jarrett Daniel Glass of Kentwood will marry in a ceremony October 6 in Ponchatoula. The bride-elect is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Reid of Amite, Mr. a...
Donald Shelby Smart of Kentwood and Deanna Jordan Koshis of Baton Rouge announce the birth of their son, Dillon Cole Smart. Dillon was born May 11, 2012 at 3:53 p.m. at Woman's Hospital in Baton R...
Russell "Bud" and Heather Walker of Roseland announce the birth of their daughter Alyssee Harley Walker.
Alyssee was born Friday, January 28, 2012 at 1:45 p.m. at North Oaks Medical Hospital. She w...
Two little hands, two little feet, now our family is delightfully complete.
Joey and Cindy Grice of Kentwood proudly announce the birth of their precious baby girl, Jolee Hunter Grice.
Jolee was bo...
Albert Joseph III, "Trey", and Lori Toups of Amite would like to announce the birth of their "little princess", Allison Paige Toups.
Allison arrived at 2:36 a.m. on Friday, August 26, 2011 at North...
Jonathan and Lynnie Pourciau announce the birth of their son Isaac Mitchell. He was born September 9, 2011 at North Oaks Hospital. He weighed 7 lbs., 6 ozs., was 19 inches long.
He is welcomed by h...
Aubrey Noelle Purser was born June 6, 2011 in Southwest Regional Hospital, McComb, Mississippi. She weighed in at eight pounds and was 20 1/2 inches long. She is the daughter of Jennifer Meyn Purse...
AMITE--Winn-Dixie is putting on a Summer Bash Saturtday, June 1 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. --Lots of fun, food, more fun! --family and kids events! Winn Dixie is at 804 West Oak Street, Amite You c...
AMITE--A group consisting of local, country boys from Amite, Greensburg and other communities are proud to call themselves the Trained Assassins. The once web-based show, Trained Assassins premie...
AMITE-- A benefit pageant for Tangipahoa Parish Fair Association is June 8, called "Southern Louisiana Beauties & Beaus," according to Vickey DiMattia, Pageant Director, President of 125th Tangipa...
HAMMOND – Crime Stoppers of Tangipahoa, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office, and the Hammond Chamber of Commerce Community Development Committee are proud to announce a joint public safety proj...
NEW ORLEANS--New Orleans Domino's Pizza has continued its proud partnership with the United Way of Southeast Louisiana Area and, in conjunction with Rebuild Together, has raised $11,500 toward the...
NEW ORLEANS--Girl Scouts proved themselves once again to be savvy entrepreneurs in this year’s Cookie Program, selling over 1 million boxes of Girl Scout cookies in the local council’s 23-parish j...
AMITE--Applications for the current year’s Master Gardener Program are now available at the LSU AgCenter Extension office in Amite. "We feel that this is an excellent horticulture training progra...
KENTWOOD-- As a genealogist researcher, you can spend countless of hours and years collecting documents, photographs, newspaper articles and other sources that can be important to your family hist...
GREENSBURG--Dr. Thomas Tucker Jr. was born to the wedlock of the Thomas Sr., and Flora Coleman Tucker on March 12, 1879, in Chipola, Louisiana. Dr. Tucker married Ida Wright on January 24, 1898 a...
AMITE--For a homeowner there is no immediate gratification for taking out Bermuda grass in St. Augustine grass. Using non-selective herbicides like glyphosate (Roundup, Eraser, Hi-Yield etc.) the...
KENTWOOD--Sitting at home and gazing out of the window, I found myself reflecting on my ancestral trip to Niger, West Africa. I asked myself today: what is so special about this moment that remin...
Photo and story by Jacqueline James Pendleton-Dukes ROSELAND--Alice Luberta Irving was born in 1890, she met and married Fred Vernon Sr. around 1917 in Roseland and died in1993 in Tangipahoa Paris...