Author: Stephen Hemelt - Page 50 | L'Observateur

Education

School Board to see sales tax revenue in August

RESERVE — The St. John the Baptist Parish Public School District should start seeing an influx of sales ... Read more

Columns

Hemelt: Lifestyle changes succeed where diets can fail

Diets rarely lead to long-term success, but lifestyle changes do. That’s a fact I have come to realize ... Read more

Edgard

STUCK IN PARK: St. John Parish’s LACE traffic detail stalled

LAPLACE — The reintroduction of increased traffic enforcement in St. John the Baptist Parish doesn’t appear any closer ... Read more

LaPlace

LVFD: We’re not slowing LaPlace fire protection

LAPLACE — LaPlace Volunteer Fire Department leaders say they are not the reason progress has slowed with manning ... Read more

Lifestyle

Local elementary student grows to top of her university class

LAPLACE — Acadia Reynolds was the type of girl who would arrange her stuffed animals into a classroom ... Read more

Edgard

$2.9 million LaPlace fire station’s property in question

St. John leaders say concerns with new Hemlock Street station are getting resolved EDGARD — Confusion over land ownership underneath the ... Read more

Edgard

Councilman Snyder in as parish’s board chairman

EDGARD — St. John the Baptist Parish Council members executed a peaceful transition of power this week with ... Read more

Columns

Hemelt: Whitney Plantation plans ambitious history celebration

Edgard native Courtni Becnel told me she heard all of the stories a few years back when the ... Read more

LaPlace

State, Denka sign and share LaPlace chloroprene emissions plan

LAPLACE — On Jan. 6, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and Denka Performance Elastomer signed a formal ... Read more

LaPlace

Police work to ID body found in LaPlace

LAPLACE — It could take a few weeks for authorities to positively identify the man found dead this ... Read more