Violet News

Despite a rainy start, the Voodoo Music Experience drew large crowds to City Park last weekend for the eighth-annual festival.

St. Bernard Parish voters will head to the polls today to decide whether to renew a property tax for the Lake Borgne Basin Levee District .

These government and community meetings are open to the public. To have meetings considered for inclusion, send e-mail to citydesk@tpmail.com with "Meetings" in the subject line or send a fax to 504.826.3007. --- BURBANK GARDENS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION --- -- Today, 6:30 p.m., at 6005 Wildair Drive.

St. Bernard Parish residents are invited to a town hall meeting tonight to hear about recent improvements to the hurricane protection levee system.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents assigned to the Oyster Strike Force cited 22 men on Sept.

Deborah Suzanne Aron and Kevin Joseph Kennedy exchanged marriage vows on September 12, 2009 at Temple B'nai Israel in Monroe.

After Hurricane Katrina flooded St. Bernard Parish, a temporary post office was set up behind the post office in Covington.

Bernard Callegari, Chaz Rynkiewicz and Luis Pereira, volunteers who are construction workers from the New York City area, in the NYC area, cut and nailed siding into place in 2007 on a house in Violet.

Bernard Callegari, Chaz Rynkiewicz and Luis Pereira, volunteers who are construction workers from the New York City area, in the NYC area, cut and nailed siding into place in 2007 on a house in Violet.

Joy Weems, a 2009 graduate of the College of Notre Dame, helps rebuild houses in St.

Violet resident Destiny Vosbein recently received an "honored citizen award" from St.

Judy Moffett has been battling cancer, but her smiles are for the St. Bernard Project, which rebuilt her flood damaged home to look like it was brand new.

New Orleans ranked as the most popular destination for the July Fourth holiday weekend on priceline.com's annual survey of the top 50 destinations.

St. Bernard Parish will break ceremonial ground Tuesday on an expanded and improved facility for homeless animals.

A 72-year-old man from Picayune, Miss., has pleaded guilty to defrauding Louisiana's Road Home program, set up to help residents recover after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

ST. BERNARD, La. - A toddler drowned at a pool in St. Bernard, according to St. Bernard Sheriff's spokesman Steve Cannizaro.

Officials from the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office are investigating two separate boat crashes in St.

An early-morning ground-breaking in St. Bernard Parish today ushers in a busy couple of days of kicking off Hurricane Katrina reconstruction projects.

St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro is hosting three ground breakings this week, and another five next week.

A 32-year-old Chalmette man was killed in a motorcycle accident in Violet. State police say Adam Eugene died shortly before noon Sunday when his motorcycle hit the curb and went off Louisiana Highway 39 in St.