Amite News Archives

This summer's art camp programs are so successful they will probably be repeated next year, said Charley Vance of the Amite Arts Council.

The Tangipahoa Parish Council introduced an ordinance Monday that would allow taxing bodies in the parish to collect more revenue without a vote of the public.

More than 30 small retail store owners from across the U.S. and Canada converged on downtown Hammond this week as part of a three-day Louisiana Retail Retreat adventure sponsored by T.J. Reid of Amite.

Discussion of the Loranger area schools desegregation proposal is on the agenda for tonight's meeting of the Tangipahoa Parish School Board.

Discussion of the Loranger area schools desegregation proposal is on the agenda for tonight's meeting of the Tangipahoa Parish School Board.

The Busy Bee chapter TVFC met at the Amite home of president Sandra Madere. The members shared Japanese food and received gifts of items from Japan from Leslie Cerjan, daughter of Madere.

The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for South Tangipahoa parish including for the cities of Amite and Hammond.

A Tangipahoa Parish jury convicted the first of four men believed to have killed a Ponchatoula man and dumped him in a Manchac canal in March 2007, Assistant District Attorney Jeff Johnson said Thursday.

More than 2,000 public school students in Tangipahoa Parish have registered for free uniforms through the St.

Tangipahoa Parish voters are being asked to consider four tax renewals on the upcoming July 19 ballot.

Residents of Independence and Amite will have a chance to discuss an impending school desegregation plan with school officials later this month, an organizer said Friday.

It is said the hardest thing to do is to send a son or daughter off to war. No, the hardest thing is the waiting for their return.

Light coming from the interior of a vehicle helped bring about the arrest of a man on 18 counts of vehicle burglary at a transmission repair business, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office says in a release.