The City of New Orleans Planning Commission defines 73 neighborhoods with multiple associations and group within those neighborhoods. One of those neighborhoods is Touro Bouligny in the Garden District. This association was Incorporated in May of 1984 as a (501)(c)(3) non profit. The boundaries are from St. Charles to Magazine Streets and from Louisiana…
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Hugh Laurie acts, is a comedian back in England and will release “Great Performances: Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk — A Celebration of New Orleans Blues,” in September. Check it out.
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GREAT MOMENTS IN NEW ORLEANS HISTORY ‘Bienville and the Founding of New Orleans’ This is a wonderful piece about the founding of New Orleans written by Bud Faust who is a staff writer and historian for The Levee which is available around town and by subscription. Great humor and tongue in cheek. “New Orleans was founded in 1718…
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The Louisiana Wildlife Rehabilitators Association and the Humane Society of Louisiana are co-hosting a meeting Monday on the growing problem of coyotes.. The meeting will be held at Harahan City Hall at 5:30 p.m, Monday, July 11, 2011. There have several reports of Coyotes capturing family dogs out of fenced backyards. There have siteings of Coyotes in…
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Local online newspaper that covers news, politics, crime and everything about the Uptown area of New Orleans, LA. Good place to get the inside scoop on issues in the community. Want to know what is going on with the issue at the Audubon School? or crime in the area? Here’s the place. Uptown Messenger
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On Saturday, June 4th the City of New Orleans will hold it’s 3rd “Flight the Blight” Day. This is an organized volunteer effort that has resulted in “a true partnership between the City, local neighborhood organizations, local non-profits and volunteers from throughout the community.” The five locations for the 3rd “Fight the Blight” Volunteer Day…
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One of the outcomes of the Department of Justice report on crime in New Orleans was the recommendation that “Crimemapping” be made available to the public who can then monitor and safeguard their neighborhoods and homes. Transparency and keeping the public informed is a good thing. When you go to the link below you can…
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Turning into watch Oprah’s third to last show last night I was more than a little bit impressed, by the names, the performances and all of the wonderful things being done to honor Oprah. One of the segments was about a school library in New Orleans that had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina, suffered additional…
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A video from CNN which shows the devastation on the river north of New Orleans. Such a tough decision to sacrifice the homes of individuals living on the river to save Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The people of Louisiana have lived through so much and continue to do so.
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