A Memorial Day Celebration was held at St. Bernard Memorial Gardens on Sunday, May 25. The special event that honored fallen heroes was a first for St. Bernard Memorial Gardens and will be done every year for Memorial Day from here forward. Pictured above is the VFW Post of Gretna Color Guard during the rendering of military honors.
Citizens who want to share information with detectives about criminal activity pertaining to St. Bernard Parish or any of its residents, can do so anonymously through the St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Bureau’s new tip hotline, 504.271. TIPS or 8477, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.
Nunez Community College announced on May 20, 2020 the creation of a $500 “We Give A Hoot About You” Scholarship for every graduating senior in the Chalmette High School Class of 2020.
Louisiana is predicting a $1 billion shortfall in its fiscal year 2021 budget due to the ailing oil and gas industry and sales tax lost to the coronavirus quarantine. Plaquemines Parish is predicting a $7.5 million shortfall and eyeing 7 mills in tax increases. But St. Bernard Parish is in no rush to predict a shortfall nor propose solutions to climb out of one.
Just when we believed newspaper delivery by mail carriers was improving, at least nine subscribers did not receive last week’s issue of The St. Bernard Voice. The reason we know is the nine properly addressed issues were returned to us by the Chalmette Post Office.
The Arlene and Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation announced the Class of 2020 recipients of its annual scholarship program today. The charity awards 60 scholarships each year: fifty for academic achievement, four for artistic accomplishment, and six for Career Technical Education (CTE). To date, the Meraux Foundation has awarded some 900 scholarships to St. Bernard Parish public high school graduates.
On Friday, May 8, St. Bernard Parish Government's Public Information Officer, Lenor Duplessis, retired after completing 34 years with SBPG.
Elyse Clare Dysart, daughter of David and Nicole Diecidue Dysart of Meraux, has been named the Louisiana Non-Public Student of the Year’s District Winner for the Fifth Grade Division by the Archdiocese of New Orleans’s Office of Catholic Schools. On Thursday, May 7, the Archdiocese Superintendent, Dr. RaeNell Houston, presented Elyse with her award in front of her home alongside her family members, friends, teachers and principal in attendance. Dysart attends Our Lady of Prompt Succor School in Chalmette. Photos by Amber Prattini Wallo
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development began the LA Highway 47 (Paris Road) overlay project extending from the Intracoastal Bridge (Green Bridge) to the St. Bernard Highway intersection in mid-March. St. Bernard Parish residents can expect daytime, alternating lane closures throughout this week from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. as the milling and overlay work continues. The project cost a total of $3.274 million dollars, and is anticipated to last approximately seven months. Photos by Amber Prattini Wallo
Wayne and Carla Buras of Jasper, GA (previously Chalmette) are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter Kathryn (Katie) to Todd Jenkins of Cumming, GA. Todd is the son of Larry and Dana Jenkins of Cumming, GA. The wedding will be held in Waleska, GA on September 26.
Five St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies and two officers from the Slidell Police Department recently graduated from a 92-hour Corrections Division course in Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST).
Gov. John Bel Edwards says Louisiana schools won’t reopen for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year, and now teachers in St. Bernard Parish schools have some decisions to make.
What a happybirthday on May 22 for Joe Gritter of Arabi to turn 94 years old. Joe and his wife Catherine had just celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary May 14 earlier in the month.
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A Memorial Day Celebration was held at St. Bernard Memorial Gardens on Sunday, May 25. The special event that honored fallen heroes was a first for St.
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