Restroom relief five months away at Slidell’s Heritage Park

May 21st, 2013

Regular and occasional users of Slidell’s popular Heritage Park along Bayou Bonfouca must be wondering what happened to the park’s restrooms building. It disappeared about two weeks ago. Nothing remains but a concrete-base slab.
Termites, it seems, got the best of the building, city officials said, but plans are under way to build a new one. [...]

Your photographs can help Slidell preserve its early history

May 13th, 2013

Want to be a part of Slidell history? Get out those dusty old photo albums and begin browsing, because local historian Bonnie Vanney and the City of Slidell are inviting you to attend an old-photos collection event to be held this Saturday, May 18, at Dudley Smith Printing at 58465 Tyler Drive, Suite 1 near [...]

Power restored to sewage lift station

May 10th, 2013

Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:00 p.m.
Power has been restored to Sewer Lift Station 500 and the facility is back online. Water and sewage service is back to normal. Mayor Drennan would like to thank everyone for their cooperation. If you have any problems, please call the City Services 24-hour emergency hotline at (985) 643-6140.
Friday, May 10, 2013, 4:00 p.m.
Sewer [...]

Slidell’s Main Street program again receives national recognition

May 10th, 2013

Slidell’s Main Street program – designed to bring together business, government and community interests to work on common-good projects that benefit the quality of life for all –  has once again been designated an accredited National Main Street Program.
The city program, which is under the Planning Department, received its reaccreditation for meeting the commercial district [...]

St. Tammany Avenue Closed for Roadway Construction

May 7th, 2013

Starting Wednesday, May 8, St. Tammany Avenue will be closed to through traffic while workers make repairs to the roadway. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, St. Tammany Avenue should reopen on Friday, May 10.
“I would appreciate everyone’s cooperation in exercising caution while travelling in this area and suggest using an alternate route,” said Slidell Mayor Freddy [...]

Slidell’s ‘Mixed Media’ 2013 winners announced

May 6th, 2013

The City of Slidell and Mayor Freddy Drennan are pleased to announce the Mixed Media 2013 winners who were honored during the exhibit’s opening reception on Friday, April 26, in the Slidell Cultural Center at City Hall.
Artists from ten southeastern states were invited to submit their works for the twenty first annual Mixed Media juried [...]

‘Mixed Media’ exhibit opens April 26 at Slidell Cultural Center

April 21st, 2013

The works of artists from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama will soon be on display in the Slidell Cultural Center when the City of Slidell’s twenty first annual Mixed Media juried exhibition opens on Friday, April 26, 2013, with an artist’s reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Admission is free.
Mixed Media is open to artists from [...]

Slidell Commission on the Arts honors Kathleen DesHotel with the 2012 BRAVO! Arts Award

April 19th, 2013

Slidell Mayor Freddy Drennan and the City of Slidell’s Commission on the Arts are pleased to announce that Kathleen DesHotel is the recipient of the 2012 BRAVO! Arts Award. DesHotel is being honored for her dedication to the Slidell arts community.
DesHotel was born and raised in the culture and tradition of New Orleans. She moved [...]

Keep Slidell Beautiful Spring Cleaning this Saturday, April 20

April 19th, 2013

Last weekend, Keep Slidell Beautiful hosted 25 students from the University of West Florida in Pensacola who took part of their spring break to travel to Slidell for a community service project to help cleanup Slidell’s historic Greenwood Cemetery.
The work included cleaning and painting tombs, raking leaves and filling soil into low spots around the [...]

Some Enchanted Evening Quick Guide

April 18th, 2013

So you want to attend the City of Slidell’s “Some Enchanted Evening” with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra concert  but you’re not sure what you need to do?  Here’s everything you need to know to come out and enjoy this festive, national award-winning event.
What is it? A performance by the popular classical selections, show tunes, movie [...]