Chalmette News

Tony Love proposes to Lisa Picone on the stage at the Rivertown Theater in Kenner on May 10.

The St. Bernard Art Guild will hold its annual open art show June 9 in the St. Bernard Parish Council Chambers of the St.

Nunez Community College in Chalmette presented its Pelican Awards at its annual Employee Recognition Day luncheon May 9. The Pelican Awards were created to recognize individuals in five categories who have provided outstanding service to and promotion of the College or community colleges in general.

Where Y'at , a feature-length film made for last fall's FFOne film festival and consisting of 15 segments by local filmmakers, will get screenings tonight, May 15, and tomorrow night at 7 p.m. at Chalmette Movies.

Where Y'at? is an anthology film put out by the good folks over at Timecode:nola , a local film collective made up of filmmakers to promote filmmaking in New Orleans .

Illiterate and mentally disabled, possessing the mental capacity of a 12-year-old, Gallego lived off of modest social security benefits.

A House transportation committee approved a measure aimed at saving the flailing ferry service in New Orleans by allowing it to enter into cooperative endeavor agreement with a political subdivision.

Federal drug agents seized heroin, assault rifles, body armor and nearly $11,000 in cash in a recent operation in Chalmette, La., the St.

St. Bernard Parish authorities are searching for a missing Arabi woman who suffers from dementia.

Delgado Community College in New Orleans plans to lay off more than a hundred employees, including dozens of faculty members, while Nunez Community College in Chalmette also is letting go staff.

President Dave Peralta says flood maps "will result in ridiculous premiums that will stifle the continued growth of our community." The St.

In observance of Memorial Day May 27, Chalmette Battlefield and National Cemetery will host Memorial Weekend living history events.

"Upstream Color," writer director Shane Carruth's experimental arthouse drama that bowed at the Sundance Film Festival in January to gushing reviews from critics, is getting a limited New Orleans release, it has been announced.

An urban and small stream flood advisory is in effect until 2:30 p.m. for the area marked in black.

Two programs at Nunez Community College i n Chalmette are generating buzz in the national news.

A St. Bernard Parish motorist on Tuesda afternoon slammed into a car that was stopped behind a school bus, injuring that car's driver and shaking up the seven students on the bus, according to St.

The Rev. Mark Lomax, who currently heads St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic Church in Slidell, will take over as pastor of Our Lady of the Lake parish in Mandeville on July 1, the Archdiocese of New Orleans confirmed.

Lantana is one of the first flowers I became aware of as a young child in Chalmette.

Paying tribute to popular St. Bernard Parish produce, the tomato, Our Lady of Prompt Succor is planning its 62nd annual Tomato Festival.

New Orleans City Councilwoman Kristin G. Palmer is asking the public to lobby legislators to provide funding for area ferries, which will run out of money in June.