Local News
GOVERNMENT: Governor signs many bills including 2 by Rep. John Bel Edwards, 1 by Sen. Ben Nevers
BATON ROUGE --Governor Bobby Jindal announced he has signed bills passed by the Legislature into law June 10, bringing the total number of bills signed for the 2013 Regular Legislative Session to ...
Jun 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
GOVERNMENT: Roseland town council meeting June 13, 4 p.m.
ROSELAND--The Roseland town council meeting will be Thursday, June 13. The meeting is at 4 p.m. at city hall, according to Mayor Wanda McCoy and clerk Stephanie Cutrer.
Jun 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
TANGI SCHOOL JOBS: Brown leaves school food service. 12 teachers leave.
By Don Ellzey AMITE -- Teresa Brown has resigned as director of school food services for the Tangipahoa Parish School Board to accept a job in St. Charles Parish. Brown's resignation was announced...
Jun 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
TANGI COUNCIL: What they plan to talk about June 10 at 5:30 p.m.
AMITE--The Tangipahoa Parish Council listed its agenda for its regular meeting Monday, June 10, immediately following the public hearing held at 5:30 p.m. Tangipahoa Parish Courthouse Annex, 206 Ea...
Jun 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
TANGI SCHOOL BOARD: Budget plan set, Crovetto of TFT challenges teacher assessment plan
By Don Ellzey AMITE -- The minutes of the controversial May 15 Finance Committee meeting of the Tangipahoa Parish School Board that set guidelines for the administration to use in drafting the new...
Jun 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Outgoing Amite Chamber president Jeremy Adamason (left) accepts thanks from 2013 president Renee Molland, who was sworn in by Judge Brenda Ricks Jan. 9 at Mike's Catfish Inn. Photo by Mark Mathes.
Amite Chamber reaches 120 members, lists classes, lunch speaker John Neal, community events
AMITE--Membership in the Amite Chamber of Commerce has reached 120, reports Jeremy Adamson, former Chamber president, at the Amite town council June 5. He invites individuals, small businesses and...
Jun 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
TANGI SCHOOL BOARD: After evaluation by asst. supt. Bellavia, Kolwe gets contract to July 2015
By Don Ellzey AMITE -- Tangipahoa Parish schools Supt. Mark Kolwe was unanimously given a contract extension June 4 by the school board after receiving an "outstanding" evaluation of his job perfo...
Jun 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
AMITE COUNCIL: Members and Mayor Bel debate how to maintain cemeteries, who does the work and how to hire or fire
AMITE--How should a maintenance service for Amite's cemeteries be hired? By the mayor, as has been the recent practice? Or by bid to be voted on by the council, as council member Emanuel Zanders p...
Jun 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Council member Jonathon Foster in August 2012. Photo by Mark Mathes.
AMITE COUNCIL: Members vote 4-1 in a dozen decisions, then get bogged down on Amite cemetery maintenance
AMITE--The Amite town council sailed through nearly a dozen decisions and got bogged down about who should cut the grass and maintain Amite cemeteries. It will go to bid, the council eventually de...
Jun 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
TANGIPAHOA TEST SCORES Tangi schools improve 1% on average while statewide schools improve 5%
By Don Ellzey BATON ROUGE -- Tangipahoa Parish school students on average showed no improvement on Leap and iLeap test scores for grades three through eight on the latest tests, given in March. St...
Jun 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
HAMMOND--Col. Pat Griffin joins first responder Larry Bankston and Tangipahoa Parish council member Louis "Nick" Joseph at a hurricane summit May 21 at Camp Chemekette. Griffin is heading up the transformation of the Roseland disaster response center. Bankston is assistant chief of the Wilmer Fire Department, where he began working at age 18. Joseph has over three decades of military service including Vietnam. Photo by Mark Mathes.
HURRICANE: Tangi residents seem more aware of storms after Isaac damaged or destroyed 4,600 homes
3-page special report on Hurricane Preparation in Tangi Digest June 5 AMITE--Tangipahoa Parish residents began hurricane season nine months after Hurricane Isaac destroyed or damaged 4,600 homes...
Jun 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
TANGI SCHOOL BOARD: What the board plans to discuss at its June 4 meeting in Amite
AMITE--The Tangipahoa Parish School Board listed its agenda for a meeting June 4 at School Board Central Office Board Room, 59656 Puleston Road, Amite at 6:00 p.m. Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call C...
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
More Local News
SHPSO Deputy Michael Damato shows two of the mobile meth labs found in Pine Grove. Photo by Stephanie Warren
St. Helena Parish Sheriff Nat Williams warns public of meth labs on roadways
Over the past ten days St. Helena Parish Deputies while on patrol have discovered several portable methamphetamine laboratories in and around the Pine Grove area. According to reports it appears so...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
HAMMOND--Col. Pat Griffin joins first responder Larry Bankston and Tangipahoa Parish council member Louis "Nick" Joseph at a hurricane summit May 21 at Camp Chemekette. Griffin is heading up the transformation of the Roseland disaster response center. Bankston is assistant chief of the Wilmer Fire Department, where he began working at age 18. Joseph has over three decades of military service including Vietnam. Photo by Mark Mathes.
HURRICANES: Roseland disaster staging center one of largest in Louisiana to respond to hurricanes, emergencies
ROSELAND--The new Roseland disaster distribution center will be one of the largest centers in Louisiana packed with massive tons of emergency supplies and hundreds of Louisiana National Guard troo...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
AMITE--Veterans and their families salute the presenting of the American flag by the Amite High Marine Corp Jr. ROTC. At left is Mayor Buddy Bel, who helped put veterans host the Agent Orange town hall meeting May 11 at Amite High. He is aUSMC veteran of Vietnam. Photo by Mark Mathes.
AGENT ORANGE: 125 veterans and their families come to Amite town hall for answers to health questions
Check back for updates AMITE--About 125 US military veterans and their families came from throughout Southeast Louisiana came to the Agent Orange town hall meeting May 11. They came with patches...
May 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
North Shore Focus brings the story to Baton Rouge May 14
HAMMOND -- North Shore Focus, a regionally-hosted gathering with state legislators, will be held at the Louisiana Capitol Tuesday, May 14, from 9 to 4 p.m. This year's schedule includes informal ...
May 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
AMITE--Gerard Wilson on the lot he leases May 8 at the corner of West Magnolia and Second. On this day, three of the seven cars are his own. Photo by Mark Mathes.
Fight over cars between Foster and mechanic Wilson heads to court with mayor, chiefs, attorneys, city staff swept along
Check back for updates on this story AMITE--The fight between veteran Amite city council member Jonathon Foster and mechanic Gerard Wilson, a resident in Amite since Katrina, has left a trail of...
May 09, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Outgoing Independence Fire Chief Dennis Crocker and his successor David Maurer congratulate each other at an Independence town hall meeting the night of Nov. 27. Photo by Mark Mathes.
Father, son and Mrs. Janice Holland all help avert tragedy in downtown Independence apartment fire with 3 departments responding
INDEPENDENCE--Quick response by an Independence father and son helped rescue Lisa McDonald, 48, from her second story balcony in downtown Independence May 8. The scene: just north of City Hall and...
May 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
TPSB Member Ann Smith and O. W. Dillon Elementary Principal Lance Harrell eagerly await the beginning of the tour.
New O.W. Dillon almost complete
School Board members and locals tour new O. W. Dillon Elementary facility
May 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
AMITE--Luther Tolliver is happy at his appointment to the Amite Arts Council May 7 by the Amite City Council. He's a native of the Amite area who left in 1966 to join the US Air Force. He and his wife returned to Amite in 2007 from Northern California. Now retired, he enjoys photography. Photo by Mark Mathes.
AMITE ARTS COUNCIL: Luther Tolliver happy to be back in Amite after Air Force career, and delighted with Arts Council
AMITE--Luther Tolliver is happy at his appointment to the Amite Arts Council May 7 by the Amite City Council. He's a native of the Amite area who left in 1966 to join the US Air Force. "In 200...
May 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
OPERATION STOP THE DRUGS 15 arrested from Kentwood, Amite, Tickfaw, Robert, Hammond, Ponchatoula. 2 were already in jail.
HAMMOND – Fifteen suspects were rounded up in Operation STD (Stop The Drugs)Friday, May 3 from Kentwood, Amite, Tickfaw, Robert, Hammond and Ponchatoula Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards re...
May 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
AMITE--Election commissioners and precinct workers gather at the precinct at Amite City Hall around noon May 4 during voting for the Tangipahoa School tax decision. From left: Ethel Smith, Nancy Conerly, Irma Walker, Bobby Burton, Jewel McCoy and Ella Williams (standing). Photo by Mark Mathes.
ELECTION: Tangi Schools tax re-dedication passes with 64 percent yes. New Hammond tax fails 52 percent against
AMITE--Tangipahoa voters agreed to allow the school board shift existing one cent sales tax revenues, with 4,019 voting yes, or 64 percent of votes cast on Saturday. According to complete but unoff...
May 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
GREENSBURG--St. Helena Sheriff's Deputy Jerome Hookfin.
Off-duty St. Helena Deputy Hookfin chases shooting suspect until back-up officers arrive
GREENSBURG--At approximately 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 28 off-duty St. Helena Sheriff's deputy Jerome Hookfin was standing at the counter at Bridgemart convenience store in Greensburg paying for ...
May 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Tangipahoa Registrar of Voters John Russell in July 2012. Photo by Mark Mathes.
ELECTION: Vote Saturday on re-dedication of Tangi school tax, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
AMITE--As Tangipahoa Parish voters prepare to decide on one or two school tax decisions Saturday, the total early voters has crept up a bit to 927, a bit over 1 percent of the 75,000 total voters....
May 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
WEATHER



FEATURED BUSINESSES