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W e d n e s d ay, J u ly 23, 2025
151ST YEAR, NO. 41
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Northshore Humane Society campaigns for facility BY KADEE KRIEGER Contributing writer
PHOTO BY SUZIE HUNT
Vicky Busch is a champion dressage competitor, trainer and lover of horses and mules, like Muli, who shares Busch’s Folsom horse farm.
Legacy of Care
Work of saving abused equines continues from a Folsom farm
BY SUZIE HUNT
Contributing writer On a horse farm in Folsom, Vicky Busch helps carry on the work started by Dorothy Brooke almost a century ago in Egypt, when she successfully campaigned to save starving and abused war horses and mules left there by British troops when they returned home from the first World War.
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ELECTION 2025 SLIDELL MAYOR
Candidates to appear at July 23 Chamber forum BY ANDREW CANULETTE Staff writer
The St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce will host a public forum for Slidell’s mayoral candidates on Wednesday, July 23, at the Slidell Municipal Auditorium, 2056 Second St., from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. The Chamber bills the forum as an
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In anticipation of its annual tax sale on July 29, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office is advertising an updated list of delinquent properties in the July 23 edition of The St. Tammany Farmer. The updated list also will be posted beginning July 23 under “Public Notices” on the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office website, www.STPSO.com. The list includes approximately 1,300 properties with taxes and/or related fees due to the
parish and the municipalities of Slidell, Mandeville, Covington, Pearl River, Abita Springs and Madisonville. In accordance with L.R.S. 47:2153, this is the second of two public notices of properties still delinquent for the 2024 tax year. A first notice was published in the St. Tammany Farmer on June 25. Property tax bills for 2024 were mailed Nov. 18. Delinquent notices were sent on Feb. 3 and again on May 27.
Delinquent taxpayers are encouraged to make their payments by noon on July 28 so they can be recorded and those properties removed from the list before the sale begins. The tax sale process completes the annual property tax collection cycle. The sale is not of the structure or land itself, but of a tax title, which places a lien against the delinquent property. Tax sale buyers pay the tax that is due, interest and
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other costs incurred in the collection process. Owners of property that sell at tax sale have a three-year period during which they can redeem their property with the Sheriff’s Office by paying all amounts owed at the time of redemption. The amounts collected are then used to reimburse the tax sale buyer. For additional information on taxes owed or the tax sale process, call the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office Property Tax Department at (985) 809-8217.
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During periods of flood-inducing rainfall or exceedingly high temperatures, the Northshore Humane Society often appeals to the public to temporarily foster their most at-risk animals to keep them dry and cool — something the current 70-year-old building and outdoor kennels cannot do. But those kinds of emergencies should be a thing of the past if the nonprofit group succeeds in building the new facility and animal-focused community center it has on the drawing board. In support of that vision, Northshore Humane has just officially launched a fundraising campaign to raise the rest of the money needed to advance the project from a long-held dream to a brick and mortar reality. The organization opened the project’s public capital campaign July 14 on the the 12-acre plot of anonymously donated land along Harrison Avenue near Covington, where a 21,000-square-foot facility will be built right around the corner from the the current no-kill shelter that has fallen into urgent disrepair. “This day is something we have dreamed about for years, and it is something that this community deserves,” Northshore Humane Society CEO Scott Bernier told the volunteers, board members, staff and community members gathered for the launch. “This project is about more than just a building, it’s about creating a true community center, a welcoming space where our residents can come together to learn, volunteer, adopt, and connect through their shared love of animals. It’s a place the entire community can be proud of.” During the event, Bernier displayed renderings of the proposed campus designed by Kent Design Build and Greenleaf Architects. It will include modern allindoor kennels for dogs and cats and an indoor play area, along with a state-of-the-art veterinary clinic with expanded medical suites and ample space for the rescue/rehabilitation and adoption of homeless animals.
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