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Mandeville horse that escaped enclosure lured by deputies with apples, sugar cubes
ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. — St. Tammany deputies are becoming professional animal wranglers. A horse was reported loose in a Mandeville neighborhood this week. Note: Video above is of an emu being captured in Pearl River earlier this year. According to a Facebook post by the sheriff's office, two...
St. Tammany Parish Council drops its opposition to controversial $34M apartment complex
The St. Tammany Parish Council has dropped its opposition to a controversial apartment complex on the outskirts of Covington, effectively clearing the way for construction to move forward. At a sparsely attended special meeting on Wednesday night, the council rescinded a moratorium that was keeping the developer, HRI Properties, from...
Louisiana contestants advance on 'The Voice'
NEW ORLEANS — Spoiler alert!. It's official. Mandeville native Karen Waldrup is headed to the live shows on "The Voice." Karen's performance of Lainey Wilson's "Heart Like a Truck" secured her spot. Supporters went to a Covington watch party to cheer on Waldrup. Another contestant, Zoe Levert, also from...
Catch and cook: Bridge trout
A year ago or so, I discovered a bait that kept producing speckled trout, even when I was targeting other species. It’s not really marketed or thought of as a speckled trout lure, but who cares?. For whatever reason, they love it. I took the Zimmer Swimmer in Cali...
700 homes, 53 businesses damaged | St. Tammany denied federal aid in storm recovery
ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. — Efforts to recover in St. Tammany Parish are still underway after what the National Weather Service categorized as an EF-2 tornado hit the area on April 10. With 700 homes and 53 businesses damaged, parish officials said they did not meet the damage threshold to receive federal assistance in storm recovery.
A warm and humid Friday
A ridge of high pressure over the northern Gulf will keep our temperatures high and rain chances low through the weekend. At the surface, our winds will be southeasterly for the next few days which will bring the warmth and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico into SELA, which means higher dew points and increasing cloud cover through Sunday. The winds will be getting stronger through the weekend, expect wind gusts of 25 to 35mph especially Friday through Sunday. For the first week of Jazz Fest and the Zurich Classic, expect partly to mostly cloudy, warm, humid and windy conditions with rain chances at 20% or less.
A near-century-old Mandeville hotel is ready for its next life with $2M renovation
The cozy North Star Theatre in Old Mandeville has been dark for more than a decade, long enough for its owner to be hazy on the name of the last production it hosted. That will change in about five weeks when the house lights dim for a troupe of actors starring in a local production of “Chicago.”
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