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Sunday, October 12, 2008
LIVINGSTON-TANGIPAHOA
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GREENSBURG — A deadlocked St. Helena Parish School Board failed to select a permanent school superintendent after meeting behind closed doors for an hour Thursday night.
LIVINGSTON — The Livingston Parish Council took a cautious step Thursday toward purchasing a church in order to gain added courtroom and council meeting space. LIVINGSTON — Christopher H. Pell, 25, of Livingston, was found guilty Wednesday of second-degree murder in the shooting and stabbing death of his estranged wife, Janah Lynn Stern Pell, 23, at the Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits restaurant in Walker on April 4, 2007. ROBERT — A preliminary proposal to expand the Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center to house adjudicated juveniles came under fire by some St. Tammany Parish residents at a meeting of the center’s governing commission Wednesday night. HAMMOND — A former chief deputy for the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office will become the new director for the parish government’s animal control program, parish officials announced Wednesday. LIVINGSTON — Detectives arrested a 59-year-old man accused of killing a 28-year-old man in a domestic dispute Wednesday morning, according to the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office. DENHAM SPRINGS — The City Council extended a contract Wednesday for collecting storm debris, while parish crews begin their second round of pickups along parish roads. This is the first in a series of articles about Southern Louisiana Youth Football Association teams from Livingston Parish. ALBANY — As a child growing up in Mississippi, Marjorie Morrison took art, music and ballet lessons, but laughingly says that “none of them took.” 4-H’s 100th birthday celebration slated Livingston Parish Council on Aging and Tangipahoa Voluntary Council on Aging: Meal site menus. HAMMOND COMMUNITY & BUSINESS EXPO: 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Cheer judges clinic offered in Hammond The Hammond Regional Art Center will show portraits from more than 20 private collections from the Florida Parishes in its new exhibit, Seldom Seen 2, which opens with a reception at 5 p.m. Friday. STORY TIME: 10 a.m., Albany-Springfield library, 26941 La. 43, Springfield area. (225) 567-1441. The Southeastern Louisiana University African American Alumni Chapter will hold its annual Homecoming Ball at 9 p.m. Oct. 17 in the Student Union Ballroom. The Watson branch of the Livingston Parish Library, 36581 Outback Road, Denham Springs, will hold a pumpkin decorating workshop from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Oct. 16. Each month from August through April, St. Joseph School in Ponchatoula selects a Crusader and a Mini Crusader of the Month. Students are nominated by faculty members, students and members of the community. A selection committee reviews the nominations and names Crusaders for that month. Public school lunches for Lilvingston and Tangipahoa parishes. The Southeastern Louisiana University Opera/Music Theatre Workshop will celebrate the legendary musical partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in “Rodgers and Hart: A Celebration,” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14-17 at the Pottle Music Building Auditorium. Tryouts for Livingston Parish Express middle school soccer teams will be held at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Parks and Recreation of Denham Springs Soccer Complex, 30372 Eden Church Road, Denham Springs. A student club at W.L. Abney Elementary School in Slidell assembled and donated 250 school-supply packages for students of Amite Elementary School. A Livingston Parish Council ordinance outlawing fortunetelling and soothsaying is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. WALKER — A plumber’s helper having morning coffee was killed early Tuesday when a pickup slammed through an outer wall and into the break room of Kent’s Plumbing Inc., Police Chief Hunter Grimes said. AMITE — Tangipahoa Parish school officials plan to start an academy to identify future leaders for the school system, the school superintendent said Tuesday. LIVINGSTON — Witnesses testified Tuesday that they saw Christopher Pell, 25, of Livingston, kill his estranged wife, Janah Lynn Stern Pell, 23, by shooting and stabbing her on April 4, 2007, at the Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits restaurant in Walker. Pell is on trial in 21st Judicial District Court in Livingston charged with second-degree murder in the death of Janah Pell. HAMMOND — The city of Hammond will spend $77,255 to reclaim two old sewer ponds used to pre-treat dairy wastes. The City Council unanimously voted Tuesday night to award the bid for the work. The St. Helena Parish Police Jury might have broken state road construction and bid laws and the parish’s own operational plan in administering its 2006 and 2007 road paving programs, the Louisiana legislative auditor reported Monday. LIVINGSTON — Attorneys selected a jury Monday in the murder trial of Christopher Pell, accused of killing his estranged wife at Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits in Walker in 2007. MAUREPAS — Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputies think a 33-year-old man fell out of his boat and drowned between Friday afternoon and the time his body was found Sunday, deputies said. Fun at the Livingston Parish Fair continues Tuesday and lasts through Sunday at Livingston Parish fairgrounds on U.S. 190 near Livingston. MANCHAC — Middendorf’s Restaurant, the historic catfish café on Pass Manchac, is set to reopen Wednesday after being shuttered for more than a month after Hurricane Ike flooded much of this community in Tangipahoa Parish. |
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