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Flooding from the hurricane slowed the project, but could not prevent its success.
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A proposal by Parish President Kevin Davis to create an entertainment district that would include a riverboat casino along the lakeshore to the east of Interstate 10 near Slidell has caught the parish by ...
- Where fireworks are legal and illegal, parish-by-parish
Put down a few hundred bucks worth of fireworks for tonight? Not so fast. Here are the locations where you can - and can't - launch your fireworks.
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More than 60 years ago Peter Gitz could not have had a better life. Glazed over with sentiment, his eyes drifted upward as he recalled the olden days.
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The newest library to be constructed in St. Tammany Parish is a done deal. Madisonville town officials recently signed the agreement donating about an acre of land adjacent to the Lake Pontchartrain Basin ...
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About 300 people, some letting out moans of disgust and others swinging paper petitions in their hands, debated for more than four hours Tuesday night on a comprehensive rezoning plan for southwest St.
- Blanket of snow hits St. Tammany Parish early; flakes still falling in many parts of the parish
Posted by Kia Hall Hayes and Christine Harvey, The Times-Picayune December 11, 2008 8:57AM G. ANDREW BOYD / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Christopher Reed makes snowballs on Columbia Street in Covington Thursday morning, ...
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Tony Massie, a Plymouth, Mich. man whose 2007 escape from parish jail ended in arrest about three months later and more than 1,000 miles away, pleaded guilty Monday.
- Madisonville residents ready for art designation
Seated in the heart of pine home on St. Paul Street in historic Madisonville, Susan Kierr makes her case.
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From one end of the parish to the other, St. Tammany residents will have plenty of holiday activities in December to help celebrate the spirit of the season.
- Bring holiday cheer to local merchants
Now is the time when folks are busily scurrying around to one big store after another looking for that perfect gift to put under the Christmas tree.
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After several communities in the parish were designated cultural districts earlier this year, Madisonville residents are ready for their piece of the pie.
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Is your group on the verge of changing the world with an environmental project? Could you use some funding to help it come to life? If that project also has an educational component, you may be eligible for ...
- Children's Theater booming on Northshore
This weekend was full of fun entertainment for the family, especially geared towards children.
- Driver is arrested in highway death
A driver from Baton Rouge has been booked with vehicular homicide after an alleged drunk-driving accident near Mandeville that killed her passenger.
- Parish coastline tattered but still intact
St. Tammany Parish's coastline is dwindling, that's no secret. But at what rate? Longtime Madisonville Mayor Peter Gitz has watched Lake Pontchartrain devour large swaths of his seaside community's coast over ...
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Julia Daniel, PTA president at Abita Springs Middle School, received the National PTA Parent Involvement Schools of Excellence Certification Thursday during the St.
- Fair pageant winners named, ride in parade
The St. Tammany Parish Fair Pageants were held at the Homewood Suites in Covington Sept.
- St. Tammany holding back on property tax rates
By Charlie Chapple St. Tammany bureau Except for fire protection districts, most taxing bodies in St.
Madisonville Classifieds
Local classifieds for Madisonville, LA
City DescriptionMadisonville is a town in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 677 at the 2000 census. It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Madisonville is located at 30°24′26″N 90°9′42″W / 30.40722, -90.16167 (30.407179, -90.161716). Madisonville is on the banks of the Tchefuncte River, near where the river enters Lake Pontchartrain.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.3 km²), all of it land.
Madisonville was founded in 1800 as the town of Cocquille at the site of the Native American village of Chiconcte. In 1810 it was renamed in honor of President of the United States James Madison.
It was an important port providing bricks and other products of the towns along the Tchefuncte to New Orleans in the decades before the American Civil War. After the Union capture of New Orleans, this area remained under nominal Confederate control, and the cut off of trade with New Orleans across "enemy lines" was devastating to the local economy, which did not recover for decades after the peace.
The opening of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway and associated highways gradually brought ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- United States
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- St. Tammany Parish
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