‘Legit Texas barbecue’ comes to Slidell location
Famous Dickey’s Pit brings slow cooked style to town By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – There have been many owners of a Dickey’s Barbecue Pit franchise who have been asked the same question....
View ArticleProgram offers free mental aid
Zaunbrecher starts AOT, seeks those needing help By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – A little known program started by 22nd Judicial District Judge Alan Zaunbrecher is offering incredible...
View ArticleParish, NAMI trying to help ‘sickest of the sick’ citizens
By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – Are you having a bad day? Do you believe you might be depressed, or suffering with anxiety? That is a pretty common thought for many of us, but it doesn’t...
View ArticleSlidell woman receives special Catholic honor
Gayle Calamari has volunteered at school, church all of her life By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – Gayle Calamari has experienced a life of close family activities for 81 years as she and...
View ArticleSlidell public art appears at roundabout on Robert
SLIDELL – Slidell’s newest piece of public art is now on display at the roundabout at Robert Boulevard and Brownswitch Road. “Slidell’s Community Camellia Tree” is an eight-foot-tall iron and glass...
View ArticleCondemnation vote was hard one for council
By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – It has been 17 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed into south Louisiana, including Slidell, and left thousands of homes flooded so badly that many have...
View ArticleFormer Slidell writer releases two new books
Adds to TV, radio career By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – A former Slidell journalist who began writing locally at the age of 13 has announced the release of two new books that are adding...
View ArticleSpotlight on Suicide
Seminar raises startling facts By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau COVINGTON – Year-after-year in St. Tammany Parish there has been more suicides than homicides. Yet far less attention is given to...
View ArticleShould media be reporting suicide to raise awareness?
aBy KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau COVINGTON – The years-old policy of the media not reporting suicides was given a second look in the closing hour of the Suicide Symposium held last week. A panel of...
View Article‘Suicide is the end of mental illness’
By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau COVINGTON – “Suicide is the final, end stage of mental illness,” said Dr. Ann Conn, a noted St. Tammany physician who was the keynote speaker at the Suicide Symposium...
View ArticleGarbage bills may increase
Coastal seeks $2/month due to diesel cost rising By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – Consumers across the nation are already facing the growing problems of inflation and rising gas prices but...
View ArticleThe RARE HEART of a POLICEMAN
Gallaher a great officer who had a heart like few others By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – For over 30 years John Gallaher was known as a tough cop. Rising through the ranks of the Slidell...
View ArticleGallaher’s condition is found in only 1 in 400,000
Experience of Dr. John Breaux was critical in surviving By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – Dr. John Breaux is one of the first to agree that “God gives all of us different talents, and I...
View ArticleMillage increase sought
Cooper wants maximum to bring in $1 million By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau MANDEVILLE – The budget problems for the St. Tammany Parish government have been well documented, particularly after the...
View ArticleCooper: Crisis Center will reopen soon
By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau MANDEVILLE – Parish President Mike Cooper said he does not expect the Safe Haven Crisis Receiving Center to remain closed for very long, after the original operator...
View ArticleCity surplus is growing
Mayor, City Council may be looking at $7 million By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – Sales tax revenue has begun to show a slowdown in recent months for the city, but the overall picture for...
View ArticleSlidell insurance premium up 12%
By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – All of the hurricanes and tropical weather that has battered the Gulf Coast in recent years is causing commercial insurance rates in the region to...
View ArticleFentanyl warning issued
Two in parish die from pills likely laced with drug By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – The stories about the wide-open southern borders to the U.S., and the tremendous increase in drugs that...
View Article‘Able Fit’
Slidell woman begins offering special needs exercise classes By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – When Bernadette Lala and her husband learned their son Sebastian had Autism, they were like...
View ArticleCity Showcase
Mayors tout a lot of good in St. Tammany towns By KEVIN CHIRI Slidell news bureau SLIDELL – The annual “State of the Cities” breakfast meeting in St. Tammany, when the biggest municipalities of...
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