Andrew Canulette

2 days ago | nola.com | Andrew Canulette

25 years agoA Covington City Council committee will recommend that $45,000 be spent to widen Rutland Street for 2½ blocks. The widening will ease traffic congestion along the narrow downtown thoroughfare where vehicles commonly have difficulty progressing two abreast. Businessman Patrick Clanton has lost two side mirrors and Councilman Trey Blackall has lost one, said mayor Villere.

6 days ago | nola.com | Bob Warren |Andrew Canulette

Covington Fire Chief Gary Stephen Blocker Jr., who joined the department as a teen and rose through the ranks over a nearly three-decade career, died May 6. He was 46. A cause of death was not disclosed. Blocker, a Metairie native and longtime Covington resident, joined the Fire Department in the mid-1990s as a volunteer in the department's junior division, he told a reporter in 2018. He rose through the ranks before then Covington Mayor Mike Cooper named him as the chief in August 2018.

6 days ago | nola.com | Bob Warren |Andrew Canulette

Covington Fire Chief Gary Stephen Blocker Jr., who joined the department as a teen and rose through the ranks over a nearly three-decade career, died Tuesday. He was 46. A cause of death was not disclosed. Blocker, a Metairie native and longtime Covington resident, joined the fire department in the mid-1990s as a volunteer in the department's junior division, he told a reporter in 2018. He rose through the ranks before then Covington Mayor Mike Cooper named him as the chief in August 2018.

2 weeks ago | nola.com | Andrew Canulette

St. Tammany Parish voters will decide Saturday on a $325 million bond issue the public school system seeks to fund major renovations at 23 of the district’s 55 schools, upgrade security and technology, expand its bus fleet and build a Discovery Center in Lacombe to expand STEM and robotics education. Six other items are on the ballot in various parts of the parish, but the school initiative is the only one open to all parish voters.

2 weeks ago | nola.com | Andrew Canulette

25 years agoFederal and state environmental officials have completed the cleanup of the old Madisonville wood preserving plant on La. 22 west of town and St. Tammany officials expect it will ultimately be used as a recreational facility. “The thermal operation is complete and the site currently is undergoing final grading,” said Steven Tzhone, of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Dallas district office.