Abita Springs is well known for a few events each year–their large Halloween Carnival, the City-wide Garage Sale, and the Push-Mow Mardi Gras parade. This year, however, they are adding one more event to the list to help liven things up for the Christmas season. On December 11th there will…
Have you heard about Hot Chocolate Bombs? Like everything trendy these days, they took off on Tiktok and now people can’t stop talking about them. I’m seeing them everywhere! Now you can check out youtube and find a tutorial for making your own or you can buy they from a…
Perhaps I’m showing my age a little but I remember when Celebration in the Oaks was new. Back then it was called Christmas in the Oaks and I confess that my brain has never fully made the switch (even now as I typed this title I wrote it wrong at…
Every year for Thanksgiving my husband or his mother will make a gumbo. This makes sense because the weather is finally cooling off and for sure gumbo is a cool weather food. Notice that I said I don’t make the gumbo? I have a lot of Irish in my blood…
The Rusty Pelican has long been a community favorite in Mandeville. Luckily for people living further west, they’ve now put in a location in Terra Bella. The Rusty Pelican features a wide variety of family favorites including po boys, fried baskets of chicken or seafood, and hamburgers. They also offer…
For a variety of reasons, more and more parents are considering homeschooling their children. As the popularity of homeschooling grows, so do local resources to help parents. There are so many more businesses geared to homeschooling than there were even a few years ago. Below you’ll find the local businesses…
The Louisiana Legislature met today to discuss the return of high school football which is currently slated to begin on October 9th. Eddie Bonine from LHSAA met with the Legislature to discuss this. Mr. Bonine started by saying that all of his coaches have been very adaptable. He said that…
2020 is proving to be quite the year. For the first time in my lifetime, and in anyone’s recent memory, there were two hurricanes slated to be in the Gulf at the same time. That’s on top of the global pandemic the governor keeps mentioning, the push back of the…
With schools open just a few days, an employee at Lucille Nesom Memorial School in Tickfaw has tested positive for covid-19. A letter was sent home to all parents at the school. Any staff members or students that came into contact with the infected employee were notified and asked to…
Tucked in the back of Abita Springs is a tiny church that many people don’t know the history of. Unlike some of the other churches in Abita, this one doesn’t have same pride of place in the center of town, but it’s no less interesting and historic. And now it’s…