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.
The St. Bernard Bird Festival is canceled due to the safety restrictions related to the Coronavirus. The Festival was due to be held on May 1 and May 2 at the Los Islenos Museum Complex.
No updates were available this week on the April 10 explosion at the Valero Refinery in Meraux that sent one employee to the hospital.
After Governor John Bel Edwards’ decision to close Louisiana public schools the remainder of the 2019-2020 academic year, there will be light after the darkness for high school seniors.
With the election merely days away, Americans must consider what a President Biden might bring.
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With October being Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a recently established, local St. Bernard organization named Project Purple St.
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