News & Updates for Tangipahoa Parish

AMITE---Tangipahoa Parish President Robby Miller announced that road crews will be working on the following streets, weather permitting: [...]

The Tangipahoa Parish Government is applying for a grant under the FY 2020/2021 Louisiana Community Development Block Grant (LCDBG) Program for the purpose of public facilities. The Parish is interested in procuring the services of an administrative consulting firm to prepare the application package and to administer and implement the project if it is successful in being funded.

All services shall be in accordance with the procurement requirements of the [...]

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April 10, 2019

BATON ROUGE, La. – Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser has announced a series of statewide meetings over the next several months to help identify locations for the new Louisiana Civil Rights Trail. This trail will help tell the overarching story Louisiana played in the Civil Rights Movement.

Nine meetings are scheduled across the state in April and May. These gatherings are designed to get valuable input from citizens across Louisiana, to identify and interpret historic events, physical structures, and locations that helped shape [...]

HAMMOND—Early voting begins this Saturday, April 20, to renew the Road Lighting District 5 tax at a lower millage rate.

Tangipahoa Parish Councilman David Vial said the proposition, which appears on the May 4 general election ballot, lowers the maximum millage from 15 down to just 10 mills for the lighting district that covers the rural area just outside of Hammond. [...]

AMITE—Phase 2 of the Lake Pontchartrain shoreline erosion control project has begun in southern Tangipahoa Parish.

Tangipahoa Parish President Robby Miller announced today that HDR Engineering has been contracted to serve as project engineer on the second phase of parish’s rock jetty breakwater project. Miller said the consulting firm engineered the first phase of the project, which runs along the southern shoreline of the parish west of the [...]