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- St. Bernard deputies seek ID of Smoothie King robber
St. Bernard Parish deputies say this man is accused of robbing a Chalmette Smoothie King earlier this month.
- Housing ban lands parish in court again
Less than a year after settling a housing-discrimination lawsuit with a local nonprofit, St.
- Tulsans help Katrina survivors rebuild
A family of six shouldn't live in a 20-foot trailer for three years. But, as a man named John likes to say, when the wind blows your world down and drowns your heart, "you do what you've got to do." So John ...
- The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous
By Ken Wells After Katrina roared through the Gulf states, the national media became saturated with stories of the chaos in New Orleans and of the devastation in Mississippi's coastal towns.
- St.Bernard Parish getting smaller, but lots getting larger
From Naomi Brining's back porch in Chalmette, it's easy to reflect on the memories of a neighborhood that once was.
- St. Tammany Parish deputies round up drug suspects Thursday morning
Drug suspects are moved from the Sheriff's Office complex on Collins Boulevard in Covington to the parish jail.
- Signs of recovery
The first shovels of dirt were turned this week on the mixed-income complex that will replace the St.
- Eastbound lanes of Huey P. Long Bridge reopen; other bridges remain closed
The eastbound lanes of the Huey P. Long Bridge has been reopened, but several bridges and roads in the New Orleans area remain closed because of the weather, according to the New Orleans Police Department and ...
- Candles burn in memory
The Compassionate Friends Memory Garden in Lafreniere Park has a floor made of bricks engraved in honor of children who have died.
- Have you experienced these super-craters?
Pothole Patrolman Jaber of Chalmette, LA wrote into NOLA.com's Pothole Patrol and was gracious enough to send us pictures of the monster-pothole residing in Chalmette: " We have a few cliffhanger potholes right ...
- Jindal appoints advisory members
Gov. Bobby Jindal has appointed a dozen people to the Governor's Advisory Commission on Coastal Protection, Restoration and Conservation, including four legislators, three members of national environmental ...
- Chalmette, Jackson-Gretna ferries are out of service due to high winds
The Chalmette and Jackson-Gretna ferries are out of service this morning, according to Crescent City Connection Police.
- Hundreds Wait For Housing Vouchers In St. Bernard
Hundreds of people lined up in Chalmette Thursday morning for the chance to get a voucher for Section 8 housing in St.
- St. Bernard grandpa and girl, 11, spend night in marsh
Ever since Thanksgiving, Michael Nohrenberg had heard nothing from his three grandchildren but pleas for SeaDoo rides.
- Coast Guard searching for two missing jet skiers in Chalmette
The U.S. Coast Guard is expected to resume its search around 6:30 a.m. for two missing jet skiers in Chalmette.
- Lack of controls at St. Bernard transfer station complicate overbilling controversy with SDT Waste
After months of sharply rising garbage disposal bills, the St. Bernard Parish Council and President Craig Taffaro are finding few firm answers as they try to negotiate a cash settlement with garbage executive ...
- SDT scraps plan for garbage facility
After months of neighborhood opposition, garbage executive Sidney Torres IV is pulling the plug on plans to build a controversial $2 million garbage transfer site on Paris Road in Chalmette.
- This week's orange barrel alert
- Resurfacing Wingate - Resurfacing Venture Circle, Chalmette, Valmont Circle and Delond - Resurfacing Academy Drive from JM Tatum Industrial Drive to end - Installing water & sewer lines along Crosscreek Parkway south of West 4th Street - Installing storm drains along Dixie Pine Road from James Street to Rouse Road - Installing water lines on Harrell and Independence
- Road Home could still visit those who sold home early
Roughly 700 Road Home applicants who sold their hurricane-damaged homes at a loss before they could get a compensation grant were given new hope Monday.
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City DescriptionChalmette is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the parish seat of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 32,069 at the 2000 census. It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The community was named after plantation owner I. Martin de Lino de Chalmette, whose surname in turn is derived from the French word chalmette — "pasture land, fallow land" (used especially in a mountainous area) — and has been traced to the Proto-Celtic *kalm.
Chalmette was the location of what is often called The Battle of New Orleans, where United States forces under Colonel Andrew Jackson defeated the British in 1815. The battlefield is preserved as a national monument, and the military Chalmette National Cemetery is adjacent.
On 29 August 2005, the enormous 25-foot (7.6 m) storm surge from Hurricane Katrina came up through the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet(also commonly known as MR-GO) - a little-used commercial channel dug by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1960s - and flooded most of the town, with waters as high as 14 to 15 feet (4.9 m) in some places. As a result, in a matter of hours, Chalmette was entirely destroyed. Fortunately the ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- Louisiana
- St. Bernard Parish
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