Friday, May 9, 2008
LIVINGSTON-TANGIPAHOA
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LIVINGSTON — Rural and urban members of the Livingston Parish Council divided Thursday night on the bumpy issue of gravel roads.
The council voted 5-3 to accept six more private gravel roads into the parish’s maintenance system.
Fifty-seven percent of fourth-graders in a magnet school program at Hammond Eastside Upper School scored at top levels in the 2008 LEAP English section, the school’s principal said. LIVINGSTON — The Livingston Parish School Board will interview candidates competing to become the school system’s next superintendent starting at 2 p.m. Tuesday. HAMMOND — The city’s economic development district ratified on Thursday a lease to open its troubled hospital, built two years ago with tax incentives and public financing, by Dec. 31. A Springfield man led Livingston and Tangipahoa Parish sheriff’s deputies on a chase along Interstate 12 and a busy Hammond commercial strip Wednesday, leaving two collisions and an injured deputy, authorities said. TICKFAW — A driver who refused to pull over for driving through Tickfaw with his headlights off led village police and sheriff’s deputies on a chase weaving through both Livingston and Tangipahoa parishes Tuesday night. COVINGTON — A 15-year-old boy drowned Tuesday afternoon after he jumped into a river swollen with flood water to catch a fish with his hands but was swept away by the current, police said. A new unit in the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office created to track fugitives made its first arrest Tuesday in Vernon Parish in connection with a case in Tangipahoa Parish. WALKER — Glenn Westmoreland announced he is a candidate in the Oct. 4 primary election to fill the Division I open seat on the 21st Judicial District Court bench. SPRINGFIELD — After Kathleen Jennings of Hammond retired from working 26 years in the cafeteria at Woodland Park Early Learning Center, she went back to the Hammond school to serve in another role. DENHAM SPRINGS — It wouldn’t have been Cajun Day at Seventh Ward Elementary on Friday without good Cajun food, and parents made sure there was plenty on hand Golf tournament to benefit group As a child, Dr. Ted J. Hudspeth Sr. could see himself as either a doctor or a musician. Livingston Parish Council on Aging and TanGIpahoa Voluntary Council on Aging: Meal site menus. (For meal site locations, please call (225) 664-9343 in Livingston Parish or (985) 748-7486 in Tangipahoa Parish.) TODAY
Members of the Ponchatoula Kiwanis Club have been busy with several projects, inducting new members and helping members of the community acquire playground equipment. DENHAM SPRINGS — When Brandy Kenyata Davis, a senior at Springfield High School, had the chance to honor a teacher who had been influential in her life, she thought of her fourth-grade teacher, Lori Bratton. Dr. Dennis Swanberg, a Christian comedian, was the featured speaker at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Coaches’ Appreciation Celebration April 13 at Harvest Family Church in Hammond. OPTIONS will hold a Mother’s Day plant sale at two locations in Hammond on Saturday. The Livingston Parish Public School Board recognized parish schools that received the state’s rating of Exemplary Academic Growth or Recognized Academic Growth this school year, making them eligible for cash rewards from the state. TODAY
Registration is being held for the Arts Council of Livingston Parish arts camps. Live Oak High School won first and Ponchatoula High School won third place in the French music category at the 26th annual Southeastern Louisiana University Foreign Language Festival on April 14. Walker High School graduation will be held at 7:30 p.m. May 16 at Abundant Life Church, 206 Edgewood Drive, Denham Springs. Livingston Parish graduation times set TODAY
Thimal de Alwis and Abigail Reyes, both of Hammond High School, were among 55 Louisiana high school graduates to receive the 2008 Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program, the state superintendent of education announced last month. Teachers and students gathered in the prayer garden at Holy Ghost School in Hammond to release butterflies in memory of Sean Michael Foster, an infant who died from birth defects. Diocese of Baton Rouge Bishop Robert W. Muench visited St. Joseph School in Ponchatoula April 21. AMITE — The Tangipahoa Parish School Board heard a complaint Tuesday about a high school principal who did not allow a girl to bring a female date to her prom during the weekend. GREENSBURG — A former St. Helena Parish social studies teacher and coach pleaded no contest to a simple battery charge after being accused of grabbing a female student’s buttocks last fall, a state prosecutor said Tuesday. LIVINGSTON — A state district judge has delayed a trial for a Brookhaven, Miss., woman accused of fatally stabbing her Livingston Parish boyfriend three years ago, the prosecuting attorney said. DENHAM SPRINGS — Two top Livingston Parish public school administrators and a Dillard University program director have applied to be the next superintendent of Livingston Parish schools, records show. LIVINGSTON — Livingston Parish will open an animal-control shelter in August, the head of the Parish Council’s animal-control committee said Monday. HOLDEN — Backwater flooding from heavy weekend rains receded enough Monday to continue the search for a Holden woman last heard from shortly before noon Friday, a Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesman said. LIVINGSTON — Each district of the Livingston Parish Council will get about $555,000 for road resurfacing this year, Ronnie Sharp, the chairman of the parish’s road committee told members on Monday. GREENSBURG — A St. Francisville woman died in St. Helena Parish on Sunday evening after the car she was driving went off La. 43 and twice rolled end over end, State Police reported Monday. LIVINGSTON — Faced with far fewer dollars for road paving than in years past, Livingston Parish officials are looking at which roads need to be overlaid next and what quality of work should be done. EATEL, the SunShine Pages and Livingston Parish public schools recently honored 18 students and school employees at the 2008 Top Scholars Banquet at Forrest Grove Plantation. MANCHAC — A state trooper was injured Thursday on Interstate 55 near Manchac while doing follow-up work in an investigation of last week’s chain-reaction crash that killed a Springfield volunteer firefighter and a 43-year-old Kenner man. LACOMBE — A man kept law enforcement officers at bay for more than five hours Thursday after fleeing from a state trooper who had pulled him over for a traffic violation on La. 434 and U.S. 190. |
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